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on Drymis chilensis DC. collected by Gay in Chili and deposited 

 in the herbarium of the Museum of Paris. Jaczewski (24) in 

 connection with the preparation of his monograph of Sphaeronema 

 reexamined this specimen and found two fungi present. One of 

 these, a pycnidial form, he recognized as Sphaeronema clavatum 

 Lev., but transfers it to Aposphaeria under the name A. clavatum 

 Jaczewski. The other a perithecial form which had meanwhile 

 been incorrectly labeled in the herbarium Corynelia clavata Mon- 

 tagne, he refers to the genus Caliciopsis Peck. His description 

 of the fungus is extremely interesting in several respects. He 

 states that a section through the perithecium reveals a distinct 

 stalk and an ovoid receptacle which is at first closed but later 

 opens by a large cleft at the tip. He also states that the asci are 

 long-stalked, ovoid, surrounded by paraphyses and contain 8 

 globose, brown, i-celled spores, 7.5 /x in diameter. He publishes 

 also figures showing a perithecium and an ascus. There is little 

 doubt that this material represents a species of the Coryneliaceae 

 and the description of the method of dehiscence by a wide cleft 

 is the only one recorded in literature for any species of the 

 group. There is also reason to believe that this material was in 

 reality C. tropica. In the phanerogamic herbarium at Harvard 

 University there is a specimen of Po do car pus chilina collected by 

 Gay in Chili and sent to Harvard from the herbarium of the 

 Museum of Paris. This specimen bears no number or other 

 identifying label. On the leaves of this specimen the writer has 

 found perithecia of C. tropica. Since the specimen in the her- 

 barium at Paris which was examined by Jaczewski was also 

 collected in Chili by Gay and since no species of Corynelia has 

 been found on Drymis there is reason to suspect that this speci- 

 men was in reality Podocarpus and perhaps identical with the 

 Harvard material. The host genera ar*e not closely related but 

 their leaves could be confused in poor specimens. 



Material Examined 



Chili: Rabenhorst, Fungi europaei No. 1261 {type material: at 

 N. Y. Bat. Gard., in Herb. H. Rehm, Stockholm, Sweden, and 

 in Plant Path. herb, at Cornell Univ.) ; Rabenhorst-Pazschke, 



