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Ashby and deposited in Fitzpatrick Herb, as No. 1561, also 

 material deposited in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Doubtful or Excluded Species 



1. Coryneliella consimilis Hariot & Karsten, Rev. Mycol- 



12 : 128. 1890 



(Figure 46) 



This species was founded on a single collection of material from 

 the island of Mauritius, and the writer has been unable to find 

 any record of its subsequent collection. It was made the type 

 of a new genus, and the genus is still monotypic. The original 

 description is brief, a stroma is not mentioned, and no statement 

 is given concerning the nature of the substratum. The fungus is 

 not described as parasitic. 



Lindau (28) includes the genus in the Coryneliaceae and 

 states that a stroma similar to that of species of Corynelia is 

 present. 1 In his characterization of the family Coryneliaceae he 

 states, moreover, that all the species are parasitic on leaves. 



Through the courtesy of Professor L. Mangin, the writer has 

 been enabled to examine a portion of the type material of this 

 species, and the following facts are of interest. The perithecia 

 occur on the bark of an unidentified woody plant and a stroma 

 is absent. The bark is covered by a thin, white, waxy layer, re- 

 sembling a resinous excretion, and the prominent, large, black 

 perithecia are partially imbedded in the bark beneath this. The 

 perithecia are usually solitary, but two or more are sometimes 

 found close together. The shape of the perithecium cannot be 

 determined from the material, the tips of all the individuals 

 available for examination having been crushed. They are perhaps 

 flask-shaped as described, but the species should be collected 

 again and this point either confirmed or disproved. A micro- 

 copic examination of the type material shows the asci and spores 

 in good condition. The ascus is cylindrical and 8-spored. Fili- 

 form paraphyses are present in abundance. The ascospores, at 

 first greenish, are later brown, uniseriate, oblique, 3-septate and 

 ellipsoidal. There is no reason for believing that the species is 

 parasitic. 



