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Mycologia 



Kew, England; also co-type material from the herbarium of 

 Curtis at Harvard University). 

 Brazil: Rehm, Ascomycetes No. 1817 (in herb. New York Bot. 

 Gard. ; also in herb. C. E. Fairman). See Ann. Mycol.^7: 

 138. 1909. 



Ecuador: Herbarium . of Patouillard (collected by Sodiro at 

 Puente de Chimbo ; communicated by Patouillard). 



3. Tripospora Saccardo, in Berlese et Voglino, Additamenta- 

 Syll. Fung. p. 194. 1886 



Type species, Corynelia tripos Cooke. 



Stromata black, pulvinate, amphigenous and caulicolous, 

 rounded to elongated, formed within the host tissue, later erum- 

 pent, not irregularly scattered, arranged definitely in rows and 

 becoming confluent, bearing compact clusters of perithecia ; peri- 

 thecium flask-shaped with a globose to ovoidal ascigerous portion 

 seated on the stroma and a long, cylindrical neck, which in the 

 young condition is rounded at the apex and closed; at maturity 

 the apex of the neck flattening into a disc which becomes fimbriate- 

 lacerate ; finally the margin of the disc recurving to give a wide 

 funnel-shaped opening; asci as in Corynelia, ovate, long-stalked, 

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

 characteristic, star-shaped, consisting of 4 (rarely 5) conical, 

 sharp-pointed projections radiating from a rounded central por- 

 tion, hyaline when young, becoming dark-brown, at maturity 

 opaque and nearly black, thick-walled, unicellular. 



Differing from Corynelia chiefly in the shape of the spores. 

 The general appearance of the perithecium is very similar to that 

 of Corynelia fructicola. 



1. Tripospora tripos (Cooke) Lindau, in Engler und Prantl, 



Die Natiirliche Pflanzenfamilien i 1 : 413. 1897 

 Corynelia tripos Cooke, Grev. 8: 34. 1879. 



Tripospora Cookei (Cooke) Saccardo, in Berlese et Voglino, 

 Additamenta Sylloge Fungorum, p. 194. 1886. 

 Illustrations: Winter, Ber. Deut. Bot. Gesell. 2: figs. 1-3; 



Lindau, in Engler und Prantl, Die Natiirliche Pflanzenfamilien 



i 1 : figs. 261 f. h. j. 



Type: in herbarium of Cooke at Kew, England, Miss E. M. 



Wakefield has compared the type with the specimen of No. 3150 



