SKKTCII OF I)K SCIIWEINITZ 
70. 
11. (>)HI)Y(M<:rS srPKFFIClAET.^, iMv 
Under hemlook trees on bnried !ar 
Hep. X. Y. State Mus., p, 
vje. Northville, X. Y. Angnst. 
i Peck.) 
“ Slender, about 1 inch high, smooth, brown, the sterile apex gradu¬ 
ally tapering to a point ; perithecia crowded, superficial, subglobose. 
blackish-brown, sometimes collapsed, with a small, papilliform ostiolum ; 
asci cylindrical; spores long, slender, filiform. Related to and interme¬ 
diate between C. Baveiielii and C. acicAdaris. The stem of the plant is 
about ecpial in length to the club, or perithecia-bearing part. The peri- 
tliecia are more loosely placed at the extremities of the club, thereby 
giving it a subfusiform shape. The spores are more slender than those 
of G. acicul(irif<. but the plant itself is less elongated and slender.’’ VYe 
have seen no specimens, and copy the above from the report cited. 
XX XX. F erUhecia .scattered on the stroma, scarcely capitate. 
12. CoRDYCKPs Sphingitm, Tul. Sel. Carp., III. p. 12. 
(Jrowing from dead moths, of the genus Sphinx. Massachusetts (Far- 
low. in ‘‘List of Fungi found in the vicinity of Boston.’’ Bull. Bussey Inst, i 
Stromata arising from a thin pale-ochraceous crust, overspreading 
the matrix, very slender and rather:^\'-igid, scattered, oO millim. long; 
springing mostly from the abdominal rings; perithecia seated on the 
crust itself, or on the lower or medial parts of tlie slender stromata, 
subsuperlicial, sparingly csespitose, or collected into a tolerably dense 
spike (densius in spicam digestis), narrow, ovate, i millim. long, 
glabrous, carnose, pale reddish ; asci very long, cylindrical, 4 y thick ; 
sporidia veiy narrow filiform. The conidial stage is Lsaria Sphimfum. Scliw. 
(To be continued.) 
SKETCH OF DE SCHWEINITZ. 
BY W. A. KKIjI-KKM.YN. 
Lewis David von Schweinitz was born at Bethlehem, Fa.. Feb. lotli. 
list). II is father is said to have belonged loan ancient and dislinguished 
laniil> of Silesia, (fermany. He was su]>erintendenL of the ••fiscal and 
secvilar concerns *’of the Moravian Brethren of Xoi th America. Schwei- 
nilz was doubtless much infiuenced in determining his choice of vocation 
by his father, but still more by his maternal ancestors. Mis mother was 
Dorothea Elizabeth de Wattevine. daughter of Baron ( afterwards 
Bishop ) John de Watteville and Benija. who was a daughter of (’omit 
Ziiizendorf. Nicholas I^ewis (’ount Zinzendorf (born in Dresden in 
1700) was celebrated in his early youth t'oi- forming religious societies. 
* Tins sketch is baseil on “ A Memoir of the late Lewis David von Schweiuitz, P. 
.D., with a sketch of his scientific labors, read before the .Academy of .Natural Sciences 
of Philadelplna, May l:Rh, ISS"), by It. Walter .Johnson,’’ to which the reader is refer- 
r(“d foi-a more extended account. .A MSS. copy of this was placed in my hands by 
t ht‘kindiH'ss of Mr. Eugene A. Rav. The latter also furui,shed a photograph of the 
lithograiihicr likenessaceompauN ingthe memoir, from which oui-portrait wa.sprepared. 
