660 



P leporina, E. & E. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. July, 1890, p. 229. 



(Plate 39) 



Exsicc. Ell. & Evrht. N. A. F. 2d Ser. 2354. 



Stipitate. 'flesh-colored, small, stipe 1-2 mm; long, | mm. thick, 

 expanding above into a discoid stroma 1-2 mm. diam. and mammillose 

 from the sli.uhtly prominent perithecia, which are ovate-globose, about 

 1 mm. diam., 6-20 in a stroma. Ostiola large, black, convex,- Asci 

 clavate-cylindrical, 80-100 (p. sp. 75-80) x 10-12 //, with obscure par- 

 aphyses. Sporidia at first greenish-hyaline, 1-2-nucleate, becoming 

 opake, subinequilaterally elliptical, mostly uniseriate, 12-15x6-7/^. 



On rabbit-dung, Missouri (Demetrio). 



Distinguished from P. OHdipus by its smaller size. 



The three following species are placed under Poroniu by 

 Schweinitz in Syn. N. Am. p. 189. 



SphoBria poculu, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1167 {Enslinia pocvla,'Fr. 

 Summa, p. 399). This is a Polyporus {P. citpulmfonnis, B. & Rav. 

 in Rav. F. Car. I, No. 10, Grev. I, p. 38; P. pocula, Cke. in Grev. 

 XII, p. 85). 



Sphmria Candida, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1165, and SpKmria inter- 

 media, Schw. 1. c. 1166. We know nothing of these. Pries places 

 them in his genus Endinia. 



DALDINIA, Ces. & De Not. 



Schema Sferiac. Ital. in Comm. Critt, I, p. 197, 



Stroma supei'ficial, subglobose, external layer carbonaceous, be- 

 coming black, fibrous within and concentrically zoned, Asci cylin- 

 drical, 8-spored, pedicellate. Sporidia ovoid or oblong, dark-colored. 

 Perithecia immersed in the stroma. 



D. concentrica, (Bolt.) (Plate 38) 



Sphisria concentrica. Bolt. Fun^i Hal. tab. iSo. 

 Lycoperdon airum, Schseff. Fungi Bavar. TV, p. 131, tab. 339. 

 Valsa tuberosa, Scopoli, Flora Carniol, p. 399. 



SphtSria tunicata, Tode, Fungfi Meckl. II, p. 59, tab. XVII, fig. 130. 

 Sphezria fvaxiTiea, Withering, Arrang. Brit. Plants, IV, p. 393. 

 Stromatosphcsria concentrica, Grev, Flora Edinb. p. 355.' 

 Hypoxylon concentricum , Grev. Scott, Crypt. Flora, VI, tab. 324. 

 Daldinia conceHirica, Ces. & De Not. Schema Sferiac. p. 24. 

 Exsicc. Rab. Herb. Mycol. 600.— Thum. F. Austr. 1134.— Thum'. M. U. 69.— Cke. F. Brit. 

 Ser. I, 669, id. Ser. II, 2i5.— Plovjr. Sph. Brit. 17.— AUesch & Schnabl, F. Bav. 76. 



Stroma subspherical or hemispherical, rarely obovoid, subferru- 

 iinous and softer at first, at length black and carbonaceous, 2-4 cm. 

 iiam., softer inside, of a radiate-fibrous structure and concentrically 



