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Mycologia 



I. Lasiosphaeria mucida (Tode) 



Sphaeria mucida Tode, Fungi Meckl. 2: 16. 1791. 

 Sphaeria mutabilis Pers. Ic. Descr. Fung. 24. 1798. 

 Sphaeria ovina Pers. Syn. 71. 1801. 

 Leptospora ovina Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 143. 1869. 

 Lasiosphaeria ovina Ces. & De-Not. Comm. Soc. Critt. Ital. i : 

 229. 1863. 



Perithecia superficial, gregarious or often crowded, nearly 

 globose with a more or less prominent ostiolum, about .5 mm. in 

 diameter, clothed externally with a fine white or yellowish 

 tomentum except the ostiolum which appears as a black dot, the 

 entire perithecium becoming darker with age, at length brownish 

 or blackish, hard and carbonaceous; asci cylindric or clavate, 

 8-spored, surrounded by a yellow mucilaginous substance, 150- 

 200 X 1 5-20 /x; spores cylindric, or vermiform, usually abruptly 

 curved near the lower end, hyaline, simple or indistinctly septate 

 or pseudoseptate, often with a delicate appendage at either end 

 and occasionally with one end swollen forming a conspicuous head, 

 35-50X3-5/^ {pl'2,f- 1-3)' 



On rotten wood. 



Type locality : Mecklenburg, Germany. 

 Distribution : Maine to Colorado, Florida and Louisiana. 

 Illustrations: Tode, Fung. Meckl. pi. 10, f. 82; Pers. Ic. 

 Descr. pi y, /. 6. 



ExsiccATi : Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 8c)2. 



2. Lasiosphaeri strigosa (Albert. & Schw.) Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 2: 201. 1883 

 ? Sphaeria canescens Pers. Obs. Myc. 8: 67. 1796. 

 Sphaeria strigosa Albert. & Schw. Consp. Fung. 37. 1805. 

 Leptospora strigosa Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 144. 1869. 



Lasiosphaeria canescens Karst. Myc. Fenn. 2: 162. 1873. 

 1 Sphaeria suhlanosa Cooke ; Cooke & Ellis, Grevillea 7 : 4i- 1878. 

 ? Metasphaeria suhlanosa Sacc. Syll. Fung. 2: 165. 1883. 

 Lasiosphaeria Llystrix Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 

 1894:326. (1895?) 



Perithecia thickly gregarious and occasionally crowded, sub- 

 globose to ovoid, black, clothed externally with stout rigid yellow- 

 ish hairs; hairs acute or subacute, 12-14 /x, in diameter near the 



