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LASIOSPH JIRIA, Oes. & De Not. 



Schema Sfer. p. 55. 



Perithecia superficial, villose, tomentose or strigose. Asci elon- 

 gated, with fugacious paraphj'ses. Sporidia hyaline or subhyaline, 

 cylindrical or vermiform, mostly one-or more-septate. 

 A. Siioridia ^-or-more-septate. 



L. hirsiita, (Fr.) 



Sphezria htrsuta, Fr. S. M. II, p. 449. 

 LasiosphcEria hirsuta^ Ces. & De Not. 1. c. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 950.— Ell. X. A. F. 893.— Roum. F. Gall. 793. 



Perithecia mostly gregarious, on a thin subiculum of brown, creep- 

 ing, broadly effused hyphse, globose or subovate, about \ mm. or a 

 little more in diam., tubercular-roughened, dull black, clothed with 

 scattered, brownish-black, spreading hairs. Texture coriaceo-membra- 

 naceous. Asci cylindrical, mostly narrowed above, p. sp. 150 x 12-15 ^, 

 8-spored. Sporidia biseriate, vermiform-cylindrical, narrower and 

 curved below, hyaline, nucleate, becoming yellowish and more or less 

 distinctly 5-7-septate, 55-60 x 5-6 )i. 



On rotten wood, Canada, Carolina, Louisiana, New Jersey and, 

 west to Iowa and Montana. 



The Louisiana specc. have the head of the sporida ovate-elliptical, 

 subolivaceous, but not brown, 8-10 p. thick. Sporidia about 55 /z long. 



L. Rhacodium, (Pers.) 



SphcsHa Racodium, Pers. Syn. p. 74. 



LasiosphiEria Rhacodium, Ces. & De Not. Schema, p. 55. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 951. — Rab. Herb. Myc. 649. — id. F. Eur. H29. — Sydow. M. March 381. 



Perithecia gregarious, \ mm. diam., coriaceo-membranaceous, 

 seated on a felt-like subiculum of black, branching, interwoven hyphae, 

 clothed with spreading, black hairs. Asci stipitate, fusoid-clavate, 

 about 180 /i long by 10-15 />! thick. Sporidia biseriate, cylindrical, 

 curved below, hyaline or yellowish, faintly septate, 50-60 x 4-6 fi. 



On rotten wood, Carolina to Michigan and Canada. 



The orthography " RMcodium" is doubtless etymologically cor- 

 rect, though Persoon wi-ote Racodium. This is scarcely more than a 

 form of X. hirsutd, Fr., with the subiculum more highly developed. 



L. emergens, (Schw.) 



SpheEria emergens, Schw. Syn. N. Am. No. 1534. 

 LasiospheEria emergens, Schw. Grev. XV. p. 82. 



Scattered, emerging from a subiculum resembling a loose tomen- 

 tum, which consists at first of threads erect or creeping loosely on the 



