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Mycologia 



3. Corynelia tropica (Auerswald & Rabenhorst) Starback, 

 Arkiv. for Botanik 5 : 18-20, pi. i, fig. 14. 1905 



Endohormidium tropicum Auerswald & Rabenhorst, Hedw. 8: 

 89. 1869. (Rabenhorst Fungi europaei No. 1261 distributed 

 in 1869, bears the same description, and contains a figure 

 drawn by Fleischhak.) 



Trullula tropica (Auerswald & Rabenhorst) Saccardo, Sylloge 

 Fungorum 3 : 732. 1884. 



Corynelia clavata (Linnaeus) Saccardo f. andina P. Hennings, 

 Hedw. 36 : 230. 1897. 



Corynelia clavata (Linnaeus) Saccardo.p.p., in Rehm, Hedw. 37: 

 328. 1898; Hennings, Hedw. 39: 76. 1900; Saccardo, Syl- 

 loge Fungorum 16: 650. 1902. 



Illustrations: Fleischhak in Rab. Fung. Europ. 1261. Star- 

 back, Arkiv for Botanik 5 : pi. 1, fig. 14. 



Type: Rabenhorst Fungi Europaei No. 1.261. Material of this 

 collection, showing both asci and spores seen by the writer. (Pre- 

 pared slide No. 1212a in Fitzpatrick herbarium shows asci and 

 spores.) 



(Figures 26-29) 



Stromata amphigenous (chiefly hypophyllous) and caulicolous, 

 not reported as fructicolous, usually irregular in outline, not 

 characteristically circular, frequently much elongated, especially 

 when erumpent along the midrib or along the edge of the leaf, 

 occasionally elongated at right angles to the long axis of the leaf, 

 1-2 X 1-7 mm., dull black, rough, in section dark brown, bearing 

 10-50 or more crowded perithecia ; perithecia erumpent, irregu- 

 larly arranged on the stroma and less uniform in appearance than 

 those of other species of the genus ; immature perithecia globose 

 or irregular due to crowding, later becoming characteristically 

 barrel-shaped, the upper end more or less flattened and the sides 

 marked with 6-8 parallel longitudinal grooves, the whole surface 

 irregularly roughened by warts and wrinkles, dull black to 

 brownish black, 0.5-1.0 mm. in length, slightly less than 0.5 mm. 

 in width, carbonaceous ; the apex of the mature perithecium 

 marked by a faint transverse line along which dehiscence occurs, 

 dehiscent by a wide and deep split, the two lips pulling apart and 

 exposing the brownish-red interior of the perithecium; the 

 margins of the lips tending to become fimbriate-lacerate and giv- 



