August, 1888.] 
NEW FUNGI. 
Sordaria striata, E. & E.— On decaying' stems of some large 
weed. St. Martinsville, La. July, 1888. Langlois No. 1408. 
Gregarious. Perithecia ovate-coinc, § mm. high and | mm. broad, 
black, tubercular—roughened, the tubercles seriate above so as to 
cause the conic ostiola to appear striate. The tubercles are at 
first capped with a few light colored granules, like grains of white 
sugar but these at length disappear. Asci linear-lanceolate, con¬ 
tracted towards each end and perforated above, 200 micr. long and 
over (including the filiform base) and 12—15 micr. wide, with abun¬ 
dant paraphyses. Sporidia biseriate, (not fully mature in the speci¬ 
mens seen) 45—50 x 4—4J, consisting of a cylindrical body with the 
upper end enlarged into an elliptical head 12—15 x 7—8 with a 
hyaline (12 micr. long) appendage at each end. Well marked by 
the tuberculose-striate ostiolum. 
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Ceeetomium caninum, E. & E.—On dog dung, with (Isaria 
felina)? St. Martinsville, La. July 1888. Langlois No. 1384. 
Densely gregarious, cinereous gray. Perithecia ovate, 250 x 220 
micr. membranaceous, thin, rather coarsely cellular, clothed with 
light gray, muricately-roughened, rather distantly-septate hairs 
which are much longer and denser above (300 x 4 micr.) with 
their tips subcircinately involute, and their bases slightly swollen. 
The hairs around the apex of the perithecia diverge so as to show 
the black papilliform ostiolum. Asci clavate (p. sp. 20—24 x 8—9 
micr.), with a slender base. Sporidia 8 in an ascus, short lemon¬ 
shaped, smoky-hyaline, darker (subolivaceous) in the mass, scarcely 
apiculate, 5—7 x 4—5 mostly 5—6 x 4—4|, at first considerably 
smaller, in fact they do not appear to attain their full size while 
in the asci. This may perhaps be considered as a dwarf form of 
Ch. stercoreum Speg., as it agrees with the description of that 
species only it is smaller throughout. The specimens examined 
seemed mature but no sporidia were seen over 7 micr. in their 
longest diameter. 
Caryospora Langloisii, E. & E.—On old canes of Arundi- 
naria. Louisiana March ’88. Langlois, No. 1238. Perithecia 
gregarious, nearly superficial, their bases slightly sunk in the 
matrix, depressed-conical, large (nearly 1 mm. across), dull 
black with a distinct papilliform ostiolum. Asci broad oblong or 
narrow elliptical subsessile 120—140 x 40—45, 8-spored, with 
abundant filiform paraphyses. Sporidia crowded in the asci 
somewhat almond-shaped or acutely elliptical, 1-septate and 
slightly constricted at the septum, ends obtusely pointed, yellow¬ 
ish-hyaline at first, soon dark brown, 35—45 x 16—20. 
