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CUCURBITARIA, Gray. 



Nat. Arrangement of Brit. Plants, I, p. 519. 



Peritliecia cespitose or more rarely gregarious, generally more or 

 less connected at the base by a thin, dematiaceous stroma, spherical, 

 glabrous, black, coriaceous, generally rugulose, perforated above. 

 Asci cylindrical, 8-spored. Sporidia uniseriate, oblong or elliptical, 

 muriform, yellow, becoming brown. Parapliyses abundant. 



C. elon^ata, (Pr.) 



SpkeEria etongata, Fr. S. M. II, p. 422. 

 Cucurbitaria elongaia, Grev. Scott. Crypt. Flora tab. 195. 

 Exsicc, Fckl. F. Rh. 970. — Rah. Herb. Myc. 727.— Id. F. Kur. 822, 1441. — Rehm Asc. 185, 

 336. — Thum. F. Austr. 252. — id. M. U. 565, 1362. — M. March. 146.— Plowr. Sph. 

 Brit. 54.— b;11. & Kvrht. N. A. F. 2d Ser. 1955. 



Stroma black, extensively eifused and often surrounding the 

 branch. Perithecia at first immersed, then erumpent, subcespitose,, 

 globose, annulate-depressed around the papilliform ostiolum. Asci 

 cylindrical, short-stipitate, 120-150 x 12-14 /i, 8-spored, with filiform 

 paraphyses. Sporidia uniseriate, ovate-oblong. 5-7-septate and muri- 

 form, 25-28 X 10-12 n, yellow, then bi'own, constricted at the middle 

 septum. Macropycnidial state, Hendersonia Robinice, West; pyc- 

 nidSsi, Diplodia MobinioB., stylospoi'es ovate, brown, uniseptate, 20 x 

 12 //; perithecia globose, papillate. 



On Robinia pseudacacia, Pennsylvania (Everhart). 



C. BerberidiSi (Pers). 



SphtEria Berberidis, Pers, Syn. p. 52. 

 Cucurbitaria Berberidis, Gray 1. c, 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 969. — Kunze. F. Sel. 103. — Rab. Herb. Mycol. 653. — id. F. E. 2230. 

 Rehm. Asc. 281.— Thum. F. Austr. 171.— id. M. U. 360.— Lin. F. Hung. 281.— M. 

 March. 161, 1716, 2943. — Plow. S. Brit. 56. — Vize. M. F. 160.— Romell, F. Scand. 76. 

 —Ell. N. A. F. 578. 



Perithecia seated on a thin, brownish-black, dematiaceous sti-oma, 

 mostly in elongated groups of various extent, erumpent through the 

 epidermis, crowded, subspherical, rimose-rugose, and finally subrimose- 

 dehiscent, black, glabrous, about | mm. diam. Asci cylindrical from 

 a narrow base, 150-160 x 14^16 fi, 8-spored, with abundant paraphy- 

 ses. Sporidia uniseriate, oblong-elliptical, somewhat attenuated at the 

 ends, 8-9-septate and muriform, constricted in the middle, golden-yel- 

 low becoming brown, with the ends subhyaline, 26-30x12-13 ji. 

 Spermogonium; spermatia very small, cylindrical, 4x J //. 



On dead limbs of Berberia vulgaris, Carolina (Schw.) 



