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all}' aggregated, bi-own, sui-rounded by the orange-red epidermis. 

 Asci linear-clavate, 76-110 x 16-20 n, aparajihysate, 8-spored. Spo- 

 ridia irregularly biseriate, hyaline, 20-26 x 5-7 /i, uniseptate, ellip- 

 tical, subacute, slightly constricted. 



On Agave Shawii, S. W. United States. 



MELOGRAMMA, Pr. 



Sum ma Veg. Sc. p. 386. 



Stroma suborbicular, depressed-hemisphei'icai, pulvinate or con- 

 ical, erumpent and superficial, mostly containing numerous perithecia. 

 Asci subcylindrical, 8-spored, paraphysate. Sporidia fusoid or cylin- 

 drical, with several septa, hyaline or colored. 



M. Bulliardi, Tul. Sel. Carp. II, p. 81. (Plate 36, M. varans.) 



yariolaria Melogramma^ Bull. Champ, torn. I, p. 182, tab. 492, fig. i. 

 SphcETta ocellata, Pers. Disp. p. z. 

 Sphixria Melogramma, Pers. Syn. p. 13, 



Melogramma /usisporum , and cavtpylosporum, Fr. Summa, p. 386. 

 Melogramma vagans, De Not. Micr. Dec. IX, No. 2. 

 Hypocrea Ravenelii, Berk, in Rav. F. Car. V, 51. 

 Diatrype laieritia. Ell. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, IX, p. 19. 

 Hypoxylon myriangioides, B. & C. in Ell. N. A. F. 474. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 1033.— Rab. F. E. 937, 1923.— Thum. M. U. 366.— Roum. F. G. 173, 

 1174. — Ell. N. A. F, 474. — Rav. Fungi Car. V, No. 51. 



Stromata gregarious, scattered or subseriate and sometimes 

 confluent, erurapent-superficial, depressed-pulvinate, subhemispherical 

 or obtusely conical, 1-3 mm. diam., dull brick-red at first, at length 

 clay color or nearly black outside, brick-red or nearly blood-red inside, 

 of subcarnose texture, more or less roughened and pitted from the 

 collapsing of the upper part of the perithecia which are arranged in a 

 single peripheric layer, 10-40 in a stroma, ovate, small (less than \ 

 mm. diam.), at length more or less emergent and collapsing above. 

 Asci clavate, sessile, paraphysate, 8-spored. Sporidia crowded-biseri- 

 ate, fusoid, 3-septate, slightly curved, light brown, end cells paler, 

 38-50 X 3i-5 fi: 



On dead limbs of Carpinus Americana, Carolina, Pennsylvania, 

 New York (Brown), and Canada (Deafness). 



In some of the Canada specc. the stroma is reduced to a mere 

 crust on which stand the cup-shaped perithecia, exactly as in Fracchi- 

 cea callista. The red color of the stroma both inside and out finally 

 disappears, 



M. Melise, Curtis, in Curtis Cat. p. 143 and Grev. XIII, p. 103. 



(Not Spfuzria Melii^,\SQhvf., which is Boiryosphcsria) . 



Acervuli erumpent, black, subdiscoid or oblong. Perithecia prom- 

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