723 



(sec. Scliw. I an inch, 12 mm.). Prom the swollen bark are formed 

 pseudo-labia, covering the true lips which are of a reddish-brown 

 color and open, so as to expose the rather broad disk, but this is hardly 

 ever denuded till the fungus decays. When the epidermis is finally 

 thrown off the flexuous perithecia, with swollen margin, are seen to be 

 erumpent from the wood itself. Asci and sporidia as in S. Androm- 

 edce, from which this is very doubtfully distinct. 



CI. Juiiiperi, (Karst.) 



Coccomyces Juniperi , Karst. Mycol. Fenn. I, p. 254 (1871). 

 Colpoma juniperinum, C. & P. Bull. BiifF. Soc. Sept. 1875, p. 36. 

 Cliihris Juniperi, Rehrn, Die Pilze, HI, p. 102. 



Hysterium Petersii, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 13, sec. Cke. Grev. XVII, p. 58. 

 Exsicc. Rehm Asc. 272. 



Gregarious, oblong, elliptical, or slightly elongated, covered by 

 the cuticle which is ultimately fissured in an irregular manner, black- 

 ish, disk pallid, at length exposed, at first white-pulverulent outside, 

 membranaceous, 1-3 mm. long. Asci clavate, obtusely pointed at the 

 apex, 90-100 x 9-10 fx, with filiform paraphyses about 2 ji thick and 

 spirally bent above. Sporidia filiform-fusoid, straight, continuous, 

 guttulate, hyaline, 45-50x1^-2 fi, lying parallel. 



On juniper branches. New York (Peck). 



** Perithecia darh brown, not pruinose; sporidia joined at base, 



(Sporomega). 



CI. degenerans, (Fries). 



Hysterium degenerans, Fr. S. M. II, p. 585. 

 Cliihris degenerans, Rehm, Die Pilze, III, p. 104. 

 Sporomega degenerans, Duby, Hyst. p. 48. 

 Exsicc. Fr. Scl. Suec. 40.— Moug. & Nestl. 762.— Desm. PI. Crypt. Ed. II, 182. 



Erumpent, gregarious, round or elongated, or variously shaped, 

 black outside, disk open, dilated, soft, livid when fresh, flesh-color 

 when dry, margin thin, at first adnate to the epidermis, finally sepa- 

 rating, and erect. Asci elongated-clavate, subacute above, paraphysate, 

 150x12 n- Sporidia filiform, acute at each end, 55-80 x 2^ //, lying 

 parallel in the asci. 



On dry, decaying branches of Vaccinium and Andromeda, New- 

 field, N. J. 



CI. morbida, (Pk.) 



Tryhlidium morbidum, Pk. 31st Rep. p. 48. 



Perithecia seated on a thin, black crust, irregular iti shape, ellip- 

 tical, oblong or orbicular, rugose, black, closed at first, at length 

 gaping widely and exposing the dingy-white or yellowish disk. Asci 



