No. 102. 
December, 1893. 
A QUARTERLY RECORD OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 
AND ITS LITERATURE. 
FUNGI. 
Revised Descriptions of Type Specimens in Kew 
Herbarium. 
By G. Massee. 
Hysterographium putaminum ( CJce .), Sacc. 
Gregarious or scattered, innate, broadly elliptical, ends obtuse, 
lips smooth, not prominent, closed and having a very narrow slit, 
black, about mm. long ; asci subcylindrical or slightly clavate, 
narrowed at the base into a slender pedicel, 8 — rarely 4 — spored, 
spores irregularly biseriate when 8 in number, elliptical, ends 
obtuse, 3-5 septate with an occasional vertical septum, sometimes 
slightly constricted at the middle septum, pale brown, 22-25 x 
10-12 /i ; paraphyses numerous, filiform, colourless. 
Hysterographium putaminum (Cooke), Sacc. Syll., No. 5782. 
Hysterium putaminum, Cooke, Grev. vn., p. 48. 
On the inside of old peach stones. Aiken, S.Car. (Ravenel.) 
Gloniopsis orbicularis (_B. Br.). 
Spots superficial and easily removable, black, 4-7 mm. in 
diameter, the perithecia elongated, crowded, circinating, of various 
lengths and arranged like a coil of rope, more or less convex, lips 
rather tumid, slit very narrow ; seated on a parenchymatous base, 
centre of the coil usually sterile ; asci cylindric-clavate, narrowed to 
an oblique pedicel at the base ; spores 8, biseriate, elliptical, ends 
obtuse, 3 — then 5 — septate and with a few vertical septa, colourless, 
12-15 x 6-7 p ; paraphyses numerous, very slender. 
Glonium orbiculare , B. & Br., Journ. Linn. Soc., xiv, p. 133. 
Gloniella orbiculare (B. & Br.), Sacc. Syll., Yol. n., No. 5731. 
On bamboo stem. Ceylon. (Th waites.) 
The more or less circular patches of coiled perithecia are 
scattered on the stem, and readily fall away intact. Berkeley and 
Broome state in a note following the diagnosis : — “ Sporidia *0005 
long, but scarcely mature.’’ A careful examination of the type 
specimen revealed mature fruit as described above. 
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