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colored tint. Asci cylindric-filiform, rather long attenuale-stipitate 

 below, 100-115 x3| ;/ (p. sp. 50-60 x3-3| ji), 8-spore'd, paraphyses 

 none. Sporidia directly or obliquely uniseriate, oblong-ellipsoid or 

 subcylindrical, 6-8x2-2| fi, straight, with a nucleus in each end, 

 hyaline. Spermogonia in simtlar perithecia, but more superficial; 

 spermatia cylindrical, hyaliae, 8-10 x 2 //. 



APIOSPORA, Sacc. 



Consp. Gen. Pyr. p. 9, SyU. I, p. 539. 



Perithecia covered, membranaceous, globulose, connected by a 

 dark colored pseudostroma. Asci 8-spored, with paraphyses more or 

 less distinct. Sporidia clavate-subpyriform, attenuated and often 

 curved below, faintly uniseptate near the lower end, hyaline or yel- 

 lowish. 



Mostly growing on grasses. 



A. Montagnei, Sacc. F. Ven. Ser. II, p. 306. 



Sphczria apiospora, Dur. & Mont. Fl. Alg. I, p. 492, tab. 25, fig. i. 

 Hypopteris apiospora. Berk. Dec. Fungi, 485. 

 Exsicc. Rab. F. E. 3i57- 



.^eriate-erumpent black, 300 (i diam. Perithecia comparatively 

 large, globose, uniseriate in longitudinal cracks in the epidermis, white 

 inside, connected by a dark-colored pseudostroma. Ostiola hemis- 

 pherical, umbilicate. Asci clavate or oblong, 70-90x15-20 //. Spo- 

 ridia biseriate, ovate-oblong, appendiculate-pyriform, 20-25 x 8-10 fi. 



On culms of Arundinaria, in the Southern States. 



Specc. from Louisiana have asci 100-110x25-30 //;• sporidia 

 35-40 X 10 [1, but specc. from Alabama have asci and sporidia agree- 

 ing with the measurements in Sacc. Syll. 



A. Polypori, E. & E. (in Herb.) 



Perithecia scattered, erumpent, convex-hemispherical, about 200 [x 

 diam., black, carbonaceo-membranaceous. Ostiolum papilliform, soon 

 perforated. ' Asci oblong, obtuse, nearly sessile, 40-45x10-12 /z, 

 overtopped by the abundant linear paraphyses. Sporidia crowded- 

 biseriate, ovate-oblong, slightly curved or subinequilateral, about 

 12 x4 /z, hyaline and at length with a single septum nearer the narrow 



end. 



On old Fome3 applanatus. Newark, Delaware (Commons). 



