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Material Examined 



Brazil : Specimen in harbarium Elam Bartholomew at Stockton, 

 Kansas, collected by F. Noack in the province of Sao Paulo, 

 San Francisco dos Campos, Brazil, Dec. 1896, communicated 

 by Sydow under the name Corynelia oreophila (Speg.) 

 Starb. ; two specimens of same collection in herbarium H. 

 Rehm at Stockholm, Sweden ; slides showing asci and spores 

 deposited in Fitzpatrick herbarium as No. 1630; Herb. H. 

 Rehm No. 1743, collected by Ule. 



8. Corynelia portoricensis sp. nov. 



Corynelia clavata var. portoricensis Stevens, Illinois Acad. Sci. 

 Trans: 10: 178-181. fig. 5. 191 7. 

 Illustrations : Stevens 1. c. fig. 5. 



Type : in the herbarium of the University of Illinois, Porto 

 Rican Fungi, No. 784. A portion of this specimen is deposited 

 in Fitzpatrick herbarium as No. 1591. 



(Figures 1-3, 42) 



Stromata scattered, circular to elongated, often erumpent be- 

 fore the delimination of the perithecia, subcarbonaeeous, the 

 interior homogeneous and black, the surface black and rough, 

 amphigenous (chiefly hypophyllous, a single stroma sometimes 

 erumpent on both surfaces of the leaf), caulicolous and fruc- 

 ticolous,- bearing approximately 1-30 (averaging 11) perithecia; 

 perithecia large, reaching 1.5 mm. in length, young and old pen- 

 ithecia frequently occurring on the same stroma, the younger 

 ones usually at the center and the maturer ones at the margin, 1 the 

 marginal individuals usually radiating . and often lying almost 

 parallel to the surface of the host ; young perithecia conical to 

 short cylindrical, the apex smooth, rounded, and practically un- 

 differentiated, the ascigerous cavity partially buried and pure 

 white within ; mature perithecia of two types, the first with tri- 

 lobed apices, the second with bilobed apices ; the trilobed indi- 

 viduals greatly resembling in form and size the typical peri- 

 thecia of C. oreophila, occurring usually in the center of the 

 stroma, and relatively few in number (11%) ; the bilobed indi- 

 viduals considerably flattened laterally in the upper half, measur- 

 ing approximately 0.5 X 0.25 mm. in lateral diameter, and so 

 characteristic in shape that this species can be easily recognized 



