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globose, 90 /a to i8o/a in diam., covered sparsely with conical 
spines, 12/1 to 20 /a in length by i/a at the apex, and 6 /a at the 
base; the beak is brown or black, .6 mm. to 1 mm. by io/a to 30/1, 
striate, surmounted by thick, hyaline bristles, 12 /a to i8/a by 2 /a; 
asci, oval, 20 /a by io/a, fugacious; ascospores, 8, hyaline gray in 
mass, oval to elliptical often flattened on one side, 4 /a to 5 /a by 
3 /a to 4 /a. 
On the wood of Liquidambar styraciflua L., staining it 
brown. Collector H. von Schrenk, Kirbyville, Texas, July, 1906. 
9. Graphium eumorphum Sacc., Syll. Fung. 4:611, Sporo- 
cybe eumorpha Sacc. Fung. It. n. 942. (1881). Emended, Bou¬ 
langer, Rev. Gen. de Bot. 7:97-102, 166-170. (1895)., pi. 2-5. 
Hedgcock, Mo. Bot. Gard. Rept. 17: 87-88, pi. 7, fig. 1-5. Colo¬ 
nies white or gray, changing to light, or even dark green in the 
stromata; hyphae, i/a to 2 /a in diameter, hyaline to light green; 
secondary conidia, 7.8/A by 3.4/A, hyaline, often greenish yellow, 
borne singly or in whorled clusters on upright hyphae; primary 
conidia', 7.7/A by 3.4/A, hyaline, tinged with green, borne termi¬ 
nally on alternately branched hyphae in mucoid, stromatal heads; 
heads, spherical with mucous sheath, oval without, 30/t to ioo/a 
in diameter, gray to iridescent green; stalks, simple or gre¬ 
garious, dark to light green, or even yellow green, 300/A to 500/A 
in length, io/a to 40/A in diameter; Anthina-like forms present. 
On wood of Rubus strigosus L., staining it a dirty color. 
Missouri Botanical Garden, June, 1905. G. G. Hedgcock, col¬ 
lector. 
10. Graphium atrovirens Hedgcock, Mo. Bot. Gard. 
Rept. 17:88-90, pi. 8, fig. 1-3. Colonies white, changing to dark 
green in the stromata; filaments, 3 /a to 4/1, hyaline, changing to 
gray, green or olive; secondary conidia, 4 /a to 5.5/1 by 1.6/1 to 2 /a, 
hyaline, obovate to elliptical, guttulate when old, borne on simple 
hyphae in short, branching moniliform chains, finally adhering 
in masses; primary conidia, 3.5/A to 4.5/A by 1.4/A to 2/a, hyaline, 
obovate to ellipical, borne in flattened, oval, white to gray heads, 
which with mucous sheath measure 40/A to 6 oo/a in diameter; 
stromatal stalks, usually solitary, slender hyaline to dark green, 
1.5mm to 3mm. by 8 /a to 8 o/a, base often slightly enlarged; tall, 
sterile, Anthina-like stalks often form. 
On the wood of Liquidambar styraciflua L., Marianna.Ark., 
staining it black. Collected by H. von Schrenk, July, 1905. 
11. Graphium smaragdinum (A. & S.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 
4:618. Emended, Hedgcock, Mo. Bot. Garden Rep. 17:91, 
92, pi. 9, fig. 8-10. Colonies white to gray-green or olive in stro¬ 
mata ; filaments hyaline to dark green, 2 /a to 4 /a in diameter; 
secondary conidia 3.6/1 by i.8/a, hyaline, elliptical, borne continu¬ 
ously from the ends of simple or branched upright hyphae, col¬ 
lecting in mucoid masses; primary conidia, 3.2/1 to 4.2/A by 1.7/4 
