538 



Ps. profusa, (Ff .) 



SphiBria profusa, Fr. S. M. II, p. 39^. 

 Spharia irregularis, DC. Fl. Fr. VI, p. ii6. 

 Sphizria anomia, Fr. (not Schw.) 1. c. p. 381. 

 Valsa profusa,'VT, Sumraa, p. 411. 

 Massaria seiridia, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 155, 

 Aglaospora profusa, De Not. Micr. Ital. Dec. V, p. 5, No. 3. 

 Valsa Sariwellii, B. & C. (in Herb.). • 



Sphceria oceltata, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 163'S. 



Sphczria amorphostOTtia, Schw. Syn. N. Afii. 1334 (sec. specc. in Herb. Schw.^. 

 Pseudovalsa profusa. Winter, Die Pilze, II, p. 785. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 583.— Rab. F. E. 733, 1137, 1441, 2514.— Rehra Asc. 45.— Sydow, M, 

 March. 176, 941.— Tbum. M. U. 969.— Ell. N. A. F. 172. 



Stromata scattered, numerous, subseriate and subconfluent, vari- 

 able in size and shape, pyramidal, pulvinate or hemispherical, round, 

 elliptical or elongated (on a transverse section), surface uneven or un- 

 dulate, black, paler inside, of tough, horn-like consistence, sunk in the 

 substance of the bark, enclosed in a rather thick, black layer, covered 

 by the epidermis which is only slightly perforated, finally exposed by 

 the falling away of the bark. Perithecia 2-4 in a stroma, deeply 

 buried, globose or angular, contracted into a thick, irregular-shaped 

 neck, with short, black, obtuse ostiola erumpent in a compact fascicle 

 but scarcely exserted. Asci cylindrical, sliort-stipitate, 4-spored, 180- 

 210x21-24 11. Sporidia cylindrical, rounded at the ends, spuriously 

 4-celled, with a subtriangular nucleus in each cell, hyaline at first, 

 then clear brown. Paraphyses filiform, abundant. 



On dead limbs of Robinia pseudacacia, common. 



Ps. Titan, (B. & Rav.) 



jDiatrype Titan, B, & Rav. Grev. IV, p. 97. 



Pseudovalsa Titan, Cke. Syn. 2093. 



Titania Berkeleyi, Berlese Icones. tab. 37, fig. i. 



Pustules irregular, black, rough with the protruding ostiola, 

 minutely granulated. Asci (sec. Cke. 1. c.) 2-spored. Sporidia fusi- 

 form, obtuse at each end, dark, with about 6 septa, 100 jx long. 



On bark of hornbeam. South Carolina (Ravenel). 



Ps. haploc^stis, (Berk. & Br,) 



SphcBria haplocystis, B. & Br. Ann'. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. II, p, 317. 

 Haplocystis Berkeleyi, Awd. in Fckl. F. Kh. 585. 

 Calospora haplocystis, Fckl. Symb. p. 191. 

 Pseudovalsa haplocystis, Sace. Mich. I, p. 44. 

 Exsicc. Rab. F. Eur. n46.-Cke. F. Brit. Ser. I, 253, Ser. II, 229.-Roum, F. G. 444S, 4449. 



Perithecia covered, subglobose, thin-walled, minutely tomentose, 

 permanently covered by the blackened epidermis which is raised into 

 slight pustules, depressed-globose, 4^10 together in snbcircinate groups 



