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Mycologia 



2. Eleuthromyces Geoglossi (Ellis & Everh.) 

 Hypomyces Geoglossi Ellis & Everh. Jour. Myc. 2 : 73. 1886. 

 Peckiella Geoglossi Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 944. 1891. 



Perithecia superficial, closely gregarious, when fresh of a dirty 

 greenish-yellow, when dry yellowish to amber, more or less fur- 

 furaceous, nearly globose, tapering into a rather long neck, 150 

 mic. in diameter at the base and 180 mic. high; asci slender, 

 50-75X4-5 mic, 8-spored; spores mostly 1 -seriate, with the 

 ends overlapping, hyaline, simple, tapering into an appendage-like 

 extremity at either end, 10-12 X 3-4 mic. {pi. 4. f. 10, 11). 



On Geoglossum sp. 



Type locality: New Jersey. 



Distribution: New Jersey and New York. 



Specimens examined: New Jersey, Ellis (type) ; New York, 

 Seaver. 



Distinguished from the preceding by the much smaller peri- 

 thecia as well as by the habitat. 



The material collected by the writer in New York corresponds 

 exactly with the type in spore characters but there is some differ- 

 ence in the color of the perithecia, those of the type being nearly 

 black while those of our own collection are, with transmitted 

 light, amber. As there are no notes on the color of the type 

 specimen that difference might be due to drying. 



This species was placed in the genus Hypomyces by Mr. Ellis 

 but differs from the plants of this genus in the entire absence of 

 stroma. Both the perithecial and spore characters strongly sug- 

 gest the above genus. 



4. Pseudonectria nom. nov. 

 Nectriella Sacc. Michelia 1 : 51. 1877. 



Perithecia free on the substratum, globose to ovoid, bright 

 colored, yellow,' red, etc., smooth or minutely rough, soft, mem- 

 branaceous ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored ; spores elliptical or sub- 

 elliptical, simple, hyaline. 



Type species : Nectria Rousseliana Montag. 



Distinguished from Nectria by the simple spores. 



1. Pseudonectria sulphurata (Ellis & Everh.) 

 Nectria sulphurata Ellis & Everh. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 

 1890: 248. 1891. 



