196 



Pound in Now York State (sec. Peck in 22d Rep.) and on maple 

 in South Carolina (Berk, in Grev. IV, p. 146). 



C. cirrhosa. (Pers.) 



Sphczria cirrhosa, Pers. Syn. p. 59. 

 Ceratostoma cirrhosum, Fckl. Syrab. p. 127. 

 Ceratosiomella cirrhosa, Sacc. Syll. 1547. 



Perithecia scattered or sometimes crowded, at first biu-ied, finally 

 semierumpent, globose, with brown, creeping, mycclioid hairs, which 

 penetrate the surrounding wood, the projecting part becoming bald, 

 black and smooth, about 400 [jl or over, broad, with a long, mostly 

 curved and tubercular, bald ostiolum. Asci subcylindrical, sessile, 

 8-spored, 65-75x7-9 fi. SpOridia uniseriate, oblong-elliptical, with 

 two nuclei, hyaline, 9-12x3^ fx. 



On rotten wood, Carolina. 



C. capillaris, (Ell.) 



Ceratostoma capillare. Ell. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, IX, p. 20. 

 Ceratostomella capillaris, Sacc. Syll. 5996. 



Perithecia capillary, nodulose, clothed below with short, spread- 

 ing, hyaline hairs which are scarcely enlarged at the base. Asci elhp- 

 tical, 30-35 x 9 //. Sporidia 8 in an ascus, crowded, fusiform, nearly 

 hyaline, indistinctly nucleate, straight or slightly curved, 1 1-14x3-3.^ //. 



On decaying catkins of Almis serrulata, Nowfield, N. J. 



RHYNCOSTOMA, Karst. 



Myc. Fenn. II, p. 7. 



Perithecia scattered or gregarious, immersed or erumpent, sphee- 

 roid, with a beak-like ostiolum equaling or exceeding in length the 

 diameter of the carbonaceous, black, glabrous perithecium. Asci cylin- 

 drical or clavate, 8-spored, generally paraphysate. Sporidia ellipsoid, 

 fuscous, uniseptate. 



Rh. cornigemm, Karst. Myc. Fenn. II, p. 57. 



Perithecia somewhat scattered, immersed, finally half emer- 

 gent, ovate-globose, rather more than J mm. diam., black, surrounded 

 below with long, concolorous filaments. Ostiolum stout, rough, mostly 

 a little curved, conic-cylindrical, 3-6 mm. long, generally a little con- 

 tracted just below the tip. Sporidia ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, 

 uniseptate and mostly a little constricted at the septum, brown, 8-10 x 

 3-4 ;i. 



Var. Americana, E. & E.,on rotten wood, Ohio (Morgan, 260) and 



