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Mycologia 



Excluded Species 

 Hypocrea suhviridis Berk. & Curtis. 

 Hypocrea Richardsoni Berk. & Mont. 



24. Chromocrea gen. nov. 



Stromata patellate or subpatellate, whitish, yellowish or reddish 

 to greenish-black, more or less variable in a given species, fleshy ; 

 perithecia entirely immersed with necks only slightly prominent; 

 asci cylindrical, becoming i6-spored by the separation of each 

 original spore into 2 subglobose cells ; spores colored, greenish or 

 brownish. 



Type species : Sphaeria gelatinosa Tode. 

 Distinguished from Hypocrea by the colored spores. 



Stromata yellowish to greenish-black. 



Stromata sessile, yellowish to green, then greenish-black i. C. gelatinosa. 



Stromata substipitate, yellow, not becoming green. 2. C. substipitata. 



Stromata brick-red, entirely sessile. 3. C. ceramica. 



Sphaeria gelatinosa Tode, Fungi Meckl. 2: 48. 1791. 

 Hypocrea gelatnosa Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 383. 1849. 

 ? Hypocrea chlorospora Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 4: 14. 1875. 

 ? Hypocrea chromosperma Cooke & Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State 



Mus. 29: 57. 1878. 

 Hypocrea viridis Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 31 : 49. 1879. 



Stromata patellate or subpatellate, fleshy, soft, becoming con- 

 tracted and wrinkled when dry, at first bright lemon-yellow or 

 yellowish-white becoming punctate with greenish dots, the necks 

 of the perithecia filled with dark colored spores, the entire stroma 

 becoming darker with age, finally greenish or greenish-black 1-4 

 mm. in diameter; perithecia entirely immersed with the necks 

 slightly protruding and becoming rather prominent in dried speci- 

 mens; asci cylindrical, becoming i6-spored by the separation of 

 each original spore into 2 subglobose cells ; spores at first green, 

 becoming brown, 5 mic. in diameter {pi. 20, /. ii-i^). 



On decaying wood of various kinds. 



Type locality: Mecklenburg, Germany. 



Distribution : Maine to New Jersey and Iowa. 



Illustrations : Tode, Fungi Meckl. pi. 16, f. 123. 



I. Chromocrea gelatinosa (Tode) 



