September, 1888.] 
NRW FUNGI. 
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Hypoxylon insidens, (Schw.) Syn. Car. No. 122.—(Fuckelia 
insidens (Schw.) Cke. Girev. XII, p. 52.) On rotten wood or 
oftener on bark, Carolina and Penna. (Schw.) Stroma innate, 
effused, nearly round, brown-black, partly sterile, apparently 
superficial, but the base immersed in the matrix and surrounded 
by a faint circumscribing line. Perithecia more or less prominent, 
fiexuous, subpapillate, half as large as a mustard seed. Asci 
cylindrical, sporidia uniseriate, elliptical,, pale-brown, 8x4 micr. 
According to Mr. W. C. Stevenson Jr., the specimens in N. A. F. 
164, labeled H. serpens, agree with the specimens of H. insidens, 
Schw, in Herb. Schw. 
Hypoxylox colliculosum, Schw. Syn. Car. No. 82.—On rotten 
oak wood, Carolina & Penna. (Schw.) On bark of rotten ash, sea¬ 
board of S. C. (Rav, F. Am. 742)? Effused thin, colliculose, ru¬ 
gose, black. Perithecia very large, covered with a thin crust 
which is papillate from the minute ostiola, and with 
flattened liases not immersed in the wood nor surrounded by any 
circumscribing line, subdistant but connected by the stromatic 
crust. Margin various, shining as if oiled, surface very uneven 
and rimose. Sporidia 12—13 x 5 (Cke.) As already stated, the 
specimens in Rav. F. Am. do not agree with the description of 
H. colliculosum having both perithecia and sporidia too small 
and are probably referable to II. insidens , Schw. 
NEW SPECIES OF KANSAS FUNGI. 
BV W. A. KELLERMAN AND W. T. SWINGLE. 
Sph/erotheca phytoptophtla, Kell. & Swingle.—Mycelium 
very sparse: perithecia globular, dark brown or black, obscurely 
reticulate, 60—80 micr., mostly 65—75 micr. in diameter; ap¬ 
pendages few, more or less evanescent, dark brown, irregular but 
usually about 6 micr. in diameter and mostly longer than the 
diameter of the perithecia, often septate. Asci large, hyaline, 
broadly oval, containing 8 spores, which are hyaline, oval, regular 
in size, 15 x 24—18 micr. Conidial stage: mycelium more 
abundant, conidiophores hyaline, erect, total height (including 
