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2. Ceratostomella schrenkiana Hedgcock. Mo. Bot. 
Gard. Rept. 17:67-69, pi. 4, fig. 1-4. Colonies with conidia white, 
changing to gray with the formation of perithecia; filaments 
hyaline to brown, 3/x to Jjx; conidia, hyaline, often guttulate when 
old, elliptical to cylindrical, 3 /x to 7/x by i/x to 2/x, borne terminally 
on upright hyphae in short, branching chains; perithecia, glo¬ 
bose, 120/x to 200/x, black, carbonaceous, often slightly hirsute 
below, or with numerous globular outgrowths, with a beak 8 mm. 
to 1.2 mm. by 10/x to 25/x, surmounted at maturity with a ring 
of short, hyaline, spreading bristles, 10/1 to 15/*• by 2/x; asci, 
fugacious, ovate to pyriform; ascospores, hyaline, elliptical, often 
slightly curved, 2.5/x to 4/x by ,i/x to 1.5/x. 
On the wood of Pinus echinata Mill., staining it a blue-black 
color. Collector H. von Schrenk, Grandin, Mo., July, 1905. 
3. Ceratostomella echinella E. & E. N. A. Pyr. 195 
(1892). Emended, Hedgcock, Mo. Bot. Gard. Rept. 17:69-71, 
pi 6, fig. 1. Colonies with conidia, white, changing to brown 
with perithecia; hyphae, hyaline to brown, 4/x to 7/x in diam.; 
conidia obovate to elliptical, 4/x to 6.5/x by 2/x to 3.5/x, borne in 
whorls of short, branching chains, from upright, hyaline hyphae; 
perithecia, globose or slightly flattened, 50/x to ioo/x, glandular- 
pubescent, membranaceo-carbonaceous, with a long, slightly 
curved, striate beak, imm. to 1.7mm. by 15/x to 25/x, terminated 
with a ring of hyaline bristles, averaging 15/x to 25/x by 1.5/x to 
2/x; glandular hairs on peritheeium 10/x to 32/x in length, taper¬ 
ing from 1.5/x to 2 .i/x in diam., with glandular, globose tip, 2 /x to 3/x 
in diam.; asci, elliptical to clavate; ascospores, hyaline, cylin¬ 
drical or slightly curved, biseriate, 4/x to 6/x by 1.2/x to 1.6/x, cream 
colored in mass. 
On wood of Fagus atropunicea (Marsh.) Sud., staining it 
blue or brown. Collector H. von Schrenk, Kirbyville, Texas, 
July, 1906. 
4. Ceratostomella capillifera Hedgcock. Mo. Bot. 
Gard. Rept. 77:71, 72, pi. 6, fig. 2, 3. Colonies with conidia 
white, changing to gray or brown, with perithecia; filaments, 
hyaline to brown 2/x to 6/x in diam.; conidia, hyaline, elliptical to 
cylindrical, 4/x to 8/x by 1.5/x to 2/x, borne in short branching- 
chains, terminal from upright hyphae; perithecia, globose, often 
flattened, black, carbonaceous, slightly hirsute below-, 90/x to 
200/x, with a slong, slender beak, 1.5 mm. by 25/x, terminated in 
a ring of long slender, hyaline filaments, 80/x by i/x; asci, fu¬ 
gacious, obovate; ascospores, 8, elliptic to reniform, 4.5/x to 1.5/x 
average. 
On the wood of Liquidambar styraciflua L., staining it black. 
Collector H. von Schrenk, Marianna, Arkansas, July. 1905. 
5. Ceratostomella pluriannulata Hedgcock. Mo. Bot. 
Card. Rept. 77:72-74, pi. 5, fig. 2. Colonies with conidia white, 
