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Rabenhorst-Winter, Fungi europaei at Kew, and states that they 

 are the same, the latter being in fact co-type material. The 

 writer has seen material of this exsiccati number in four differ- 

 ent herbaria, and the accompanying photographs and drawings 

 were made from that in the herbarium at Cornell University. 



(Figures 22-25, 44, 45) 



Stromata bearing a compact cluster of perithecia, 0.5-1.5 X 

 0.5 mm., not irregularly scattered, arranged definitely in rows 

 and becoming confluent ; these rows reaching sometimes a length 

 of 10 mm. (15-20 mm. acc. Winter 55), but usually shorter, 

 several rows frequently formed on the surface of one leaf ; peri- 

 thecia occurring on the stroma in a compact cluster of 2 to 16 

 (usually 4-8, and on isolated stromata radiating toward all sides, 

 so oriented when the stromata form a row that they point to the 

 left and right, the appearance of the fungus thus becoming 

 regular and very beautiful; young perithecium definitely flask- 

 shaped, with a roughened, spherical to ovoidal, ascigerous, basal 

 portion and a long, cylindrical, glabrous, shiny neck which is 

 rounded at the tip and blunt ; the neck of the perithecium in early 

 stages provided with a canal and marked at the apex with a 

 minute umbilicus, but closed ; in later stages the apex of the beak 

 flattened to form a slightly convex disc, the diameter of which 

 equals that of the ascus-bearing portion of the perithecium ; this 

 disc becoming fimbriate-lacerate, and assuming a reddish-brown, 

 fuzzy appearance, finally definitely dehiscent, the margin recurv- 

 ing, exposing the lighter colored inner wall of the neck of the 

 perithecium and resulting in the formation of a broad, funnel- 

 shaped cavity, the center of which is usually filled with a black 

 vmass of spores; immature asci, 30-35 X 40-60^ (p. sp.), mature 

 asci containing opaque spores not observed ; ascospores 22-34 /x 

 in diameter (measured from tip to tip of adjacent projections). 



Parasitic on the leaves and green parts of the stem P ado- 

 carpus elongata and P. Thunbergii in South Africa, and of P. 

 Lamberti in Brazil. Not known to the writer on other hosts or 

 from other localities. The species has long been known from 

 South Africa and is not uncommon there. It was collected in 

 Brazil by Ule and recorded by Rehm (42). The material from 

 Brazil available for examination differs from the South African 

 material in having a slightly larger, rougher, and longer-necked 

 perithecium. In other respects the two are alike. 



