742 



Page 582.— After Anthostoma tuberculosum, insert — 

 A. hiascens, (Pr.) 



Spharia hiascens, Fr. S. M. II, p. 477- 

 Anthostoma hiascens, Nitsch. Pyr. Germ. p. 113. 



Stroma effused, immersed in the wood, which at length whitens 

 out on the surface. Perithecia immersed, depressed-globose, monos- 

 tichous, scattered or crowded, with very short necks. Ostiola large, 

 mostly deeply 4-sulcate, sometimes almost cup-shaped. Sporidia 

 obtusely fusoid, dull black, straight, inequilateral, 32-36x8 /z. 



On (beech)? wood, Bethlehem, Pa. (Schw.). 



Page 609.— Insert after the genus Dothidella — 



SCIRRHIA, Mtschke. 



in Fckl. Synib. Mycol. p. 220. 



Stromata linear, often crowded or subconfluent, forming elongated 

 swellings erumpent through parallel cracks in the epidermis. Cells 

 immersed, polystichous. Asci elongated, 8-spored. Sporidia ohlong, 

 uniseptate, hyaline. The conidial stage is Hadotrichum. 



S. ostiolkta, Ell. & Galw. (in Herb.) 



Stromata narrow-elliptical, raising the epidermis into elongated 

 swellings 3-6 x 1-1 J mm. Cells numerous, white inside, the conic- 

 tuberculiform ostiola seriate-erumpent, through parallel, longitudinal 

 cracks in the overlying epidermis. Asci clavate, paraphysate, 55-65 x 

 6-7 ji. Sporidia biseriate, fusoid-oblong, uniseptate and constricted 

 at the septum, 12-15 x 3-4 //, j'ellowish-hyaline, cells guttulate. 



On dead culms of Cyperus articulatus, College Station, Texas 

 (Jennings). 



Has the habit and general appearance of S. rimosa, (A. & S.)," 

 but differs in its smaller asci and sporidia and its larger, tuberculiform 

 ostiola. 



Page 636. — After Hypoxylon turbinnlatnm, insert — 

 H. atroriifum, E. & E. (in Herb.) 



Stromata oblong or suborbicular, erumpeut-superficial, 2-3 mm. 

 diam., or subseriately confluent for ^-1 cm., pulvinate, rounded above, 

 reddish-brown and mamillose from the piominent apices of the peri- 

 thecia, contracted at the base and black. Perithecia peripherical, 

 ovate, small, (| mm.). Stroma brownish-black inside. Ostiola acutely 



