4hi) 



"Eu. capillkta, E. & E. Jouni. Mycol. IV, p." 74. 



Stromata imstuliform. 2-3 mui. diam., uuiiierous and closely con- 

 tiguous for 5-20 cui.,l.)]ackoning and carbonizing tlio barli, and bounded 

 by a black line which penetrates the wood, but not deeply. Perithccia 

 membranaceous, thick-wotled, black and shining -v^ithin (when dry). 

 6-12 in a group, not distinctly circinating, |-| mm. diam., their bases 

 slightly sunk in the wood. Ostiola capillary, very long (|-1 cm.j, 

 crooked, rough, brittle (readily breaking scjuare off when dry), apices 

 rounded and i-S-Sulcate, altogether resembling a mass of black, strigose, 

 coarse hair covering the matrix with a nearly c(?ntinuous coat. Asci 

 clavate, truncate above, 1 5 x 3^ /.( (p. sji.), with a slender base about 15 /^ 

 long, without paraphyses. Sporidia 8, crowded, yellowish in the mass, 

 strongly curved, with a nucleus in each end, about 3|x| fj.. In its 

 smaller sporidia and very long ostiola, this appears distinct from En- 

 tyi:)ellu Bonariensis, Speg., and from Valsa scoparia, Schw. Var. 

 subsim2)lex has the perithecia larger ( J-f mm.), more deeply buried in 

 the wood, and only 1-2 in a stroma, which is rounded and protuberant 

 like the- perithecia of some large, suberumpent, simple Sphmrid. 



On decaying limbs lying on the grounil, St. Mai-tinsville, La. 

 (Langlois). 



Eu. deusta, (E. & E.) 



l^alsa deusta, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. IV. p. 64. 



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Perithecia 4-6 together, sunk in the surface of the wood, with 

 thick, membranaceous walls, shining-lilack inside (when dry), laising 

 the bai-k into distinct pustules. Ostiola erumpent in a compact fascicle, 

 short-cylindrical {\ mm.),, obtuse, quadrisulcate. Asci (p. sp.) clavate. 

 about 15x4 ^. Sporidia crowded, 8 in an- aseus, allantoid, strongly 

 curved, minute (3 J-4 x |-| p.). The cuticle is soon thrown off, leaving 

 the exposed surface of the inner bark uniformly blackened. 



On decaying limbs of Go.njii, Louisiana (Langlois). 



Eu. stellulata, (Fr.) 



Sphceria stellulata, Fr. S. M. II, p. 380 



Eulypella stellulata, Sacc. Syll. 571. 



Valsa ventriosa, C. & E. Grev. VI, p. 93. 



Valsa innumerabilis, Pk. 30th Rep. N. Y. State Mus. p. 65. 



Valsa tetraploa, B. & C. Grev. V, p. 55. 

 Kxiiicc. Fckl. F. Rh 597.— Kze. F. Sel. 146.— Rab. F. E. 1535.— EU. N. A. F. 178, 6S8, 689. 

 Rav. F. Am. 190, 361, 362. 663.— Plowr. F. Brit. 42.-I,in. F. Hung. 175.— Kriegr. 

 F. Sax. 430.— Sydow, M. March. 760.— Rehm Asc. 730 — Vize Micr Fungi, 164 

 Rouni. F Gall. 534^ 



-^tromata ol)tusely conical or .subspherical, rarely sulictfuse(i, 1-2 

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