Seaver: Hypocreales of North America 



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Hypocrea Lloydii Bresadola; Lloyd, Myc. Notes i: 87. 1905. 



Stroma vertical, consisting of a sterile stem and fertile, clavate 

 or more or less irregular head; stem stout or slender and of 

 variable length, entire plant averaging 2-4 cm. high above the 

 substratum, length below the substratum variable, pale yellow, 

 whitish or tan-colored, fertile head slightly darker; perithecia 

 entirely immersed in the stroma or with their necks slightly pro- 

 truding ; asci cylindrical or slightly clavate, 50-60 X 4 mic, be- 

 coming i6-spored by the separation of each original spore into 2 

 segments ; spores subglobose or cuboid, about 4X3 mic. the lower 

 of each pair of segments a little longer {pi. 20, f. 16). 



On wood, decaying organic materials on the ground and (dead 

 insects?). 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution : N. York to W. Virginia and N. Carolina. 



Illustrations: Atkinson, Bot. Gaz. 40: pL 14-16; Berkeley, 

 Out!. Brit. Fungi, pi 23, f. 6; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. /. 243, F-H; 

 Lloyd, Myc. Notes i: /. 55; Sow., Engl. Fungi 2: pi. 5p; Tul. 

 Fung. Carp. 3 : pi. 4, f. 1-6. 



Specimens examined : New Jersey, Ellis; New York Stevens. 



2. Podostroma brevipes (Mont.) 



Cordyceps brevipes Mont. Syll. 201. 1856. 



? Hypocrea Petersii Berk. & Curt. Grevillea 4: 13. 1875. 



Hypocrea brevipes Sacc. MicheHa i : 304. 1878. 



Stroma stipitate or substipitate, 1-2 cm. diameter, convex or 

 often irregularly convolute, brown externally, whitish within, 

 papillate with the necks of the slightly protruding perithecia, 

 often dusted over with a yellowish powder, consisting of the 

 exuded spores ; stem .5-1 cm. high and 4-5 mm. thick, rugose, 

 darker than the stroma often blackish, expanding above into the 

 agariciform stroma; perithecia covering the upper surface of the 

 stroma, immersed, with the necks slightly protruding, subglobose ; 

 asci cylindrical, 75 X 5 niic. becoming i6-spored by the separation 

 of each original spore into 2 subglobose cells with the lower of 

 each pair longer, 4-5 mic. in diameter. 



On old wood. 



Type locality: S. America. 

 Distribution: Ohio to (Alabama?). 

 Specimens examined : Ohio, Morgan 28, 33. 



