200 



with a gradually enlarged or swollen place near the top about 1 50 » 

 long and 90-100 fi thick, and above this, again contracted to about- 

 the same size as below, forming a truncate beak 75-80 // long, the 

 whole being, in fact, a hollow cylinder of fibrous-cellular structure, 

 slightly enlarged at base and filled with minute, hyaline, oblong or 

 cylindrical, straight or slightly curved, 2-3 x J // spermatia and the 

 swollen pai't above filled with an abundance of club-shaped, 8-spored 

 asci, without paraphyses, and consisting of an obovate or subelliptical 

 head or spore-bearing part 9-12 x4J-5^ /i, and a filiform base or stipe 

 15-20 a long. 



On partly dead foliage of Cupressus thyoides, Newfield, N. J. 



The membrane of the asci is very delicate, and scarcely discern- 

 ible after the sporidia have matured, but easily seen in the young state. 

 Sporidia globose, pale brown, 2^ fi diam., collected in a mass. 



LENTOMITA, Niessl. 



Notiz. uber Pyren. p. 44. 



Perithecia sunk in the matrix, finally erumpent or free, soft-coria- 

 ceous or even membranaceous, prolonged above into a more or less 

 evident beak. Asci delicate, with the membrane thickened at the 

 apex. Sporidia uniseptate, hyaline. Paraphyses present. 



RHAMPHORIA, Niessl. 1. c. 



Perithecia as in CeratosphcRria. Sporidia oblong, elliptical or 

 ovate, muriform. 



No representatives of either of these two genera have yet been 

 reported in this country. 



FAMILY. AMPHISPH^rIeJ;. 



Stroma wanting. Perithecia either closely adnate or with the 

 base sunk in the matrix, becoming erumpent-superficial, or sometimes 

 superficial from the first; generally of hard, carbonaceous texture, 

 with a papilliform ostiolum. Asci elongated, paraphysate. Dis- 

 tinguished from the next preceding and following families by the pa- 

 pilliform ostiolum. 



AMPHISPHilRIA, Ces. & De Not. 



Schema. Sferiacei, p. 49. 



Perithecia at first adnate or more or less sunk in the matrix, 



