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2—4 cm. diam. Softer inside, of a radiate-fibrous structure and 
concentrically zoned. Perithecia monostichous, obovoid-oblong, 
1 mm. or a little more in length and about \ hnm. broad, more or 
less angular from mutual pressure, Ostiola slightly prominent, 
punctiform, minute. Sporidia obliquely uniseriate, inequilaterally- 
elliptical, dark brown and finally opake, 12—15 x 7—10. Asci 
long-pedicellate, 80—100 x 8—10 (p, sp.), with long, filiform 
paraphyses. 
Daldinia vernicosa, (Schw,) —Sphceria vernicosa , Schw. Syn, 
N. Am. 1175. Stroma large (2|—3 x 1—1J cm.), subturbinate, 
suddenly contracted below into a thick, stipe-like base which is 
sometimes concentrically wrinkled, surface of the stroma ferru¬ 
ginous at first from the conidial layer, finally black and shining. 
Perithecia peripheric, subglobose (sec. Schw.) but in all the 
specimens we have seen, ovoid-oblong about the same in size and 
shape as in the preceding species. Saccardo in Sylloge says 
perithecia polystichous but Schweinitz does not say so iior have 
we ever found them so though a vertical section through one side 
of the stroma shows them apparently so but this is only apparent 
as may be seen in a vertical section through the center of the 
stroma. We find the asci and sporidia about as in the preceding 
species though in the Sylloge they are said to be longer and 
narrower. This is a common species around Newfield and we 
have also received it from New England and New York. This is 
distinguished from D. concentrica by its shining black stroma 
and the looser texture of the radiate-fibrous inner substance which 
is cut by 8—12 dark colored, membranaceous horizontal layers or 
plants. These are very noticeable in a vertical section even in 
the young plant while it is still covered with the conidial layer 
and before the terminal, subglobose, ascigerous stroma has begun 
to appear. In the mature state, the fibrous inner substance and 
the horizontal membranes disappear to a greater or less extent 
and leave the stroma more or less hollow so that it may be easily 
crushed with the fingers, but in D.conceyitrica the inner substance 
remains firm and is also of a darker color. 
“Daldinia cingulata, (Lev.) Sacc. —Sphceria cingulata , Lev. 
Ann. Sci. Nat. 3, 1845, p. 47. Obovata, erecta, substipitata, 
crustaceo-laccata, e fusco-nigra nitida, cingulis peritheciis notata; 
peritheciis interioribus demum albis, stromate immersis, ostiolis 
obsolctis. 
Hab. ad truncos prope New York (Menaud), 
Stroma 1—2 dec, alt., 1 dec. crass.” 
The foregoing description of this species is copied from Sacc. 
