Seaver: The Genus Lasiosphaeria 1i9 



base with a narrow cavity extending longitudinally through the 

 center, pale yellow with the microscope; asci clavate, 8-spored, 

 about IOC X -f 5-18 /x; spores 2-seriate or irregularly crowded, 

 cylindric or cymbiform with acute ends, hyaline or pale yellowish, 

 25-30 X 5-6 /A, granular within and often pseudoseptate near the 

 center {pi i, f. 4-7). 



On rotten wood. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution : New Jersey to Ontario and Ohio. 

 Illustrations: Albert. & Schw. Consp. pi. 5, /. 7; Berl. Ic. 

 Fung. I : pi. loy, f. 2. 



3. Lasiospheria stuppea Ellis. & Ev. Bull. Washburn 

 Lab. Nat. Hist, i : 4. 1884 



Perithecia superficial, gregarious, ovoid, about i mm. in diam- 

 eter, densely clothed with light brown hairs ; hairs simple, 

 flexuous, blunt, with small central cavity, pale yellowish with 

 transmitted light, 200-400 long and about 6 ft in diameter ; 

 ostiolum strongly 4-ribbed giving the appearance of a cluster of 

 four perithecia imbedded in a stroma; asci clavate, 8-spored, 

 1 8-20 ft in diameter and about 200 ft long; spores partially 2-seri- 

 ate, elongate-ellipsoid, 30-38 X 8-10 ft, hyaline or slightly yellow- 

 ish at maturity, with 1-3 oil-drops {pi. i, f. 8~ii). 



On dead wood of Tsuga Pattoniana. 



Type locality : Mt. Paddo, Washington. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



Illustration: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. ip, /. 3-10. 



4. Lasiosphaeria hispida (Tode) Fuckel, Symb. 

 Myc. 147. 1869 



Sphaeria hispida Tode, Fungi Meckl. 2: 17. 1791. 

 Sphaeria Rhacodiiim Pers. Syn. Fung. 74. 1801. 

 Sphaeria hirsuta Pers. Ann. Bot. Usteri 11 : 24. 1794. 

 Sphaeria emergens Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 212. 1832. 

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

 229. 1863. 



Lasiosphaeria Rhacodium Ces. & De-Not. Comm. Soc. Critt. Ital. 

 1 : 229. 1863. 



Sphaeria orthotricha Berk. & Curt. Grevillea 4: 108. 1876. 



