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entirely immersed or with the ostiola sHghtly protruding, darker 

 than the stroma; asci cylindrical, 8-spored; spores i -seriate, 

 strongly overlapping, fusiform, with an apiculus at each end, 

 i-septate, not constricted or constriction so slight as to be scarcely 

 noticeable, strongly verrucose, hyaline or very pale yellowish, 

 35-40 X 8-9 mic. 



On some gill fungus. 



Type locality: Alabama. 



Distribution : Known only from type locality. 



Epecimens examined : Alabama, Earle & Baker. 



From various descriptions this was at first thought to be 

 Hyponiyces ochraceus (Pers.) Tul. A note from Leiden how- 

 ever states that there is no material of Sphaeria ochracea Pers. 

 to be found in Persoon's herbarium. This species was originally 

 reported as • terrestrial while our specimens are parasitic on gill 

 fungi. In the absence of type material it is impossible to state 

 what Persoon's specimens really were but the descriptions usu- 

 ally represent them as having large, smooth, strongly constricted 

 spores. The spores of the present species conform well in size 

 but differ in being unconstricted and strongly verrucose. This 

 together with its parasitic habits would seem to distinguish our 

 species from Persoon's. 



Doubtful Species 

 Hypomyces sepulcralis Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. France 18 : 179. 1902. 



Stroma crustaceous, irregular, white to pale ochraceous, thin ; 

 perithecia subglobose, partially immersed, brown, closely gre- 

 garious, ostiola conical, protruding; asci cylindrical, narrow, 120- 

 150X5-6 mic, 8-spored; spores i-seriate, fusoid, hyahne, not 

 appendiculate, smooth or a little rough, i-septate, and not con- 

 stricted at the septum, 10-14 X 4-5 mic. 



On the ground in a cemetery. 



According to the author of the species similar to H. terrestris 

 Plow. & Boud. 



Hypocrea viridans Berk. & Curtis; Berk. Jour, Linn. Soc. 10: 

 376. 1869. 



Scarcely a line across, composed of thick cylindrical, branched, 

 gelatinous threads ; spores 2-seriate, fusiform, narrow, .00057 

 inch long. 



