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patches 1-2 inclies across, the branches ci'owded so as to entirely 

 cover the subicukim, narrowly cleft, lips mostly closed. Asci cylin- 

 drical, 75-80x10 jjL, short-stipitate, paraphysate. Sporidia 8 in an 

 ascus, overlapping-subbiseriate, fusoid, hyaline, uniseptate and con- 

 stricted at the septum, 20-22 x 5-6 /z.-- 



• On rotten wood, northern United States and Canada, and south 

 to Carolina; probably to be met with in other parts of the country. 



The large patches of radiate perithecia are generally made up of 

 several smaller, orbicular patches, 3-4 mm. diam., confluent at their 

 adjacent margins and presenting a very neat appearance. 



G. accumulatum, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 2016. 



Subiculum scanty around the margin, coarsely fibrillose, about 

 one inch across, i-ising in an irregular, truncate-pyramidal shape, very 

 uneven and rough, on account of the ramose-radiate perithecia being 

 crowded and lying one above the other; half an inch thick. Color 

 the same as in the preceding species. ^ 



On rotten wood, Bethlehem, Pa. (Schw.). 



Apparently a mere var. of G. stellatum, but i-egarded by Schw. 

 as distinct. 



G. tryblidioid^es, E. & E. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, X, p. 76. 



Exsicc. Ell. N. A. F. 1283. 



Emergent, oblong, 1-2 mm. long, ends obtuse, lips incurved, dis- 

 tant, smooth, leaving the sooty disk more or less permanently exposed. 

 Asci clavate-cylindrical, sessile, 80-90x9-12 [i, overtopped by the 

 densely crowded paraphyses whose closely matted, dark-colored tips 

 give the sooty color to the disk. Sporidia uniseriate or partly 

 biseriate above, ovate, uniseptate, hyaline, 12-16x5-7 /i. In the 

 fresh state the swollen disk entirely hides the margin. 



On old fence rails, Washington (Suksdorf ). 



G. lineare, (Fr.) 



Hysterium lineare, Fr. S. M. II. p. 583. 

 Glonium lineare, Sacc. Syll. 55S8. 

 Exsicc. Ell. N. A. F. 463.— Rehra Asc. 365.— Sydow, M. March. 2951. 



Perithecia more or less crowded, sometimes longitudinally con- 

 fluent mostly lying parallel, subimmersed in the wood which is often 

 blackened, linear, rather flat, straight or flexuous, ends obtuse, black, 

 smooth, lips slightly swollen 1-lJ mm. long, about \ mm. wide. Asci 

 clavate-cylindrical, 75-90x12-14 /i. Paraphyses conglutinate, their 

 tips united above and forming a dark-colored, coarsely granular stra- 

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