680 



applanate, opening witli a rather broad cleft, the base mostly bordered 

 fl"ith brown, creeping threads. Asci ovate, sessile, 30x15/^. Spo- 

 ridia crowded, oblong-fusifonn, obtuse, hyaline and uniseptate at first, 

 becoming brown at length and often 3-septate, 15-20x3-5 /i, con- 

 stricted at the middle septum. Differs from the usual type of Aylog- 

 rapKum. 



On bare wood of old cypress pickets, Louisiana (Langlois). 



A. acicolum, Hark. Bull. Cal. Acad. Feb. 1884, p. 47. 



Lemhosia acicola, Sacc. Syll. IX. p. 1107. 



Perithecia scattered or gregarious, oblong, covered by the thin 

 epidermis, 5-I mm. long, opening by a longitudinal fissure. Asci 

 •oval, about 25 mm. in the longer diameter, 8-spored. Sporidia 

 crowded, inordinate, oblong-elliptical, hyaline, uniseptate, scarcely con- 

 stricted, finally brownish, about 15x6^. 



On living leaves of Pinus sah'inianu, Mt. Diablo, California 

 (Harkness). 



A. liicens, Hark. 1. c. 



Lembosia lucens, Sacc. Syll. TX, p. 1 107, 



Perithecia flattened, oblong, sparsely scattered over slightly dis- 

 colored spots, |-1 mm. long, opening by a longitudinal fissure, semi- 

 immersed. Asci ovoid, 8-spored, 37 x 28 //. Sporidia oblong, rounded 

 at the ends, uniseptate, slightly constricted, with a large vacuole in 

 each cell, hyaline, slowly becoming brown, 21 x 10 fi. 



On living twigs of Garrya elliptica, Tamalpais, California (Hark- 

 ness). 



GLONIUM, Muhl. 



Fr. Syst. Mycol. 11, p. 594. 



Perithecia emergent, linear, elongated, rarely ol)long, sometimes 

 radiately arranged, carbonaceous or tough-membranaceous, opening by 

 a longitudinal cleft. Asci cylindrical or clavate, 8-spored, paraphysate. 

 S])oridia uniseptate, hyaline or finally brownish. 



■ G. stellatum, Muhl, in Fr. S. M. 1. c. 



SolenaHum byssoideum^ Spreng. 

 Exsicc. Rav. Fungi Car. Ill, 43.— Rav. F. Am. 639.— Ell. N. A. F. 462. 



Subiculum effused, brownish-black, indeterminate, 2 or more cm. 

 broad, thin, composed of slender, branching, interwoven'fil)ers. Peri- 

 thecia adnate to the subiculum', anastomosely radiating and forming 



