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Mycologia 



a single species frequently occurs on several species of Podo- 

 carpus. Four hosts have been noted for C. oreophila, four for 

 C. tropica, and seven for C. uberata. Since the genus Podo- 

 carpus contains a very large number of species and the writer's 

 material of the Coryneliaceae is doubtless relatively limited, the 

 above facts may, however, be found to explain themselves on 

 the basis of coincidence. 



Systematic Account 



Coryneliaceae Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 9: 1073. 1891 



Corynelieae Sacc, in Berlese et Voglino, Additamenta Sylloge 

 Fungorum, p. 193. 1886. 



Fungi typically parasitic (two little-known species, Caliciopsis 

 subcorticalis and C. calicioides, described as saprophytic) ; stro- 

 mata formed beneath the epidermis of the host from internal 

 mycelium, later erumpent, black, coriaceous to carbonaceous, 

 sharply demarcated, plane to pulvinate, usually small and scat- 

 tered, rarely confluent ; perithecia seated on the stroma or slightly 

 buried in it, usually cespitose, black, elongated (flask-shaped, 

 barrel-shaped, clavate, top-shaped, etc.), sessile or stipitate ; apex 

 either rounded and undifferentiated or variously sulcate and 

 lobed, in some cases flattened into a broad disc, never possessing 

 a typical ostiolum, at maturity dehiscent by a definite, wide open- 

 ing resulting either from the formation of one or more clefts or 

 by fimbriate-laceration ; asci broadly ovate, very long-stipitate, 

 thin-walled, evanescent, i-8-spored, aparaphysate ; ascospores 

 spherical to oval or in one species stellate ; asexual spores, uni- 

 cellular, elongated to allantoid, hyaline to slightly yellowish, borne 

 in pycnidia which usualy accompany the perithecia on the stroma. 



Key to Genera 



A. Ascospores spherical to oval. 



1. Perithecium definitely stalked. 



a. Perithecium not undergoing proliferation to form a second peri- 



thecium at the apex of the first i. Caliciopsis. 



b. Perithecium proliferating 2. Sorica. 



2. Perithecium not definitely stalked 4. Corynelia. 



B. Ascospores stellate 3. Tripospora. 



