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Mycologia 



Hypocrella phyllogena (Mont.) Speg., Duss. Enum. Champ. 

 Guadel. & Mart. 80. 1903. 



Pulvinate, hemispherical, base constricted, orange; perithecia 

 peripheral, erect, ovate, ostiola punctiform, bright purple, nesthng 

 in a stroma of similar color; spores fiHform, breaking into 

 segments. 



On leaves of Myrcia octopleura. 



A specimen of this species from the herbarium of Patouillard 

 is sterile. 



Excluded Species 

 Hypocrella atramentosa (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. 

 Hypocrella Hyphoxylon (Peck) Sacc. 



Doubtful Genera 

 Glaziella Berk. Vidensk. Medd. Nat. For. Kjoben. 1879-80: 31 

 Stroma subglobosum laeticolor ; perithecia pallida, gelatina 

 repleta." 



Type species : Glaziella vesiculosa Berk. 



Glaziella aurantiaca (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 2: 



582. 1883 



Xylaria aurantiaca Berk. & Curtis, Jour. Linn. Soc. 10 : 382. 

 1868. 



" Subglobosa, inflata, aurantiaca, polita, subtus pallidior, ostiolis 

 impressis.'* 



" On the ground in woods without apparent attachment. The 

 specimens are unfortunately not mature, but the species belongs 

 to the same category as X. compuncta." 



The species is bright orange in color the dried specimens be- 

 coming much faded. The structure resembles the thin skin of 

 some fruit and is filled with glands which have been described 

 as perithecia. 



A specimen of this species was first referred to the writer by 

 Prof. L. M. Underwood having been collected by him as a 

 fungus. Owing to the absence of fruit it was impossible to de- 

 termine the species and, in fact, we were not entirely convinced 

 that it was a fungus although sections seemed to show mycelial 

 structure. 



