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S. vuLGARE Tode? 



On fallen dead leaves, Short Creek, July 25, 1893 {^'uttall, 

 1137, 120). 



PILACRE Fries. 

 P. GRACiLiPES E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 1894, 386. 



Type habitat: On rotten wood. Short Creek, alt. 1,750 

 ft., Dec. 16, 1893 {Nuttall, discov. 1219, 274). 



Scattered, stem slender, white-pruinose, 3 mm. long, .23 

 to .33 mm. thick. Head hemispherical, olivaceous, about i 

 mm. diameter. Fertile hyph^ hyaline, clichotomously 

 branched, 2 to 2.5 /a thick, bearing the conidia laterally. 

 Conidia globose or subglobose, yellow-brown under the 

 microscope, 4 to 5.5 ;u diameter. 



Smaller and of a more slender growth than P. Pctcrsii 

 B. & C. 

 P. Petersii B. & C. 



On Acer saccharttm and Ilex opaca, Feb. 10, 1894 {Nutt- 

 dl, 1371). On magnolia Fraseri, Nov., 1895. 



ISARIA Pers. 

 I. Virginiensis E. & E. Proc. Phila. Acad., 1893, 465. 



Type habitat : On the young stroma of Hypoxylon 



riibigiuosiim? June 30, 1893 {Nuttall, discov. 1109, 95, 102). 



Stromata gregarious, simple, slender-clavate, 1.5 to 2 mm. 



high. Yellowish-white, obtuse and subcapitate at the apex, 



curved, often decumbent, clothed nearly to the base with 



spreading, hyaline, dendroid, 1.5 to 2 |U branching hyphse 



(sporophores) 40 to 45 x 2.5 /u, their tips often toothed and 



bearing i to 4 elliptical or ovate, hyaline 3.5 x 2.5 .a conidia. 



Analogous to /. umbrina Pers {Institale acariforme Fr.), 



but diflfers in several respects. 



I. clavata Ditm. 



On dead sticks on ground, June, 1893 {Niitldl, mo). 



CERATIUM A. & S. 



C. HYDNOiDES (Jacq.) Alb. & Schw. 



On rotten log, June 10, 1893 (Nnttdl, 976). 



SPOROCYBE Fr. 



S. Rhois (B. & C.) Sacc. 



On Rhus copailina, March 24, 1894, spores 7.5 x 2 to 2.5 /i. 

 On Rhus hirfa, March 28, 1894, spores 10 x 2.5 fi ^Nuttall, 



1430)- 

 S. AzALEAE (Peck) Sacc. 



On capsules of Rhododendron maximum. Dec. 12, 1893. 



