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26. IIypocrea patella, C. & P. 29th Rep. N. Y. State Miis., p. o7. 
‘‘ Fleshy, patellate, discoid, 1—2 lines broad, pale ochraceous ; asci 
cylindrical; spores globose, sixteen, hyaline, 3-4/^- in diam. Resembles, 
externally, some species of Helotiiim.” 
27. IIypocrea minima, Sacc. & Ell. Micb. II, p. 570. 
Stromata scattered, superficial, pnlvinate, discoid, olivaceous, be¬ 
coming nearly black when dry, hardly 1 millim. in diam., minutely punc- 
tiilate from the slightly prominent ostiola, texture finely cellular, dark 
olivaceous ; asci cylindrical, without paraphyses, 75 x3i—4 subsessile, 
containing 8 didymous, hyaline sporidia composed of two globose-cuboi- 
dal cells about 3i—4 P- and readily separating. On bark of dead Maynn- 
lia glauca. Newfield, N. J. 
28. IIypocrea olivacea, C. & E. Grev. II, p. 92. 
Stromata scattered, consisting, at first, of patches of thin white 
tomentum 4—1 cm. in diam., becoming carnose and subpulvinate and of 
an olive-yellow shade, at length dark olive, or nearly black, and punctate 
from the slightly prominent ostiola; asci cylindrical, 65—75 x 34—4 
contracted below into a substipitate base, and containing 8 two-celled, 
hyaline sporidia, the cells nearly globose, about 3 p in diam., and readily 
separating. On decaying pine wood. I^lewfield, N. J. What appears to 
be the same was found on decaying bark of Sassafras lying on the ground.’ 
29. IIypocrea Stereorum, Schw. Syn. N. Am., 1183. On 8te- 
reum fasciatum. Bethlehem, Fa. (Schw. ) On Polypm-iis Ourtisvi. 
South Carolina. (Ravenel.) 
“ Undulate-confluent, applanate, margin sublobate, surface plicate, 
subpulvinate, flesh-color, becoming brown; when young, covered with a 
white tomentum and then more distinctly pulvinale; sometimes soli¬ 
tary, but generally confluent in elongated strips in the folds of the 
matrix; substance quite soft, but not gelatinous ; surface granular from 
the prominent perithecia, which are distinctly ostiolate and uoOmmersed 
in the whitish subjacent stroma; seminal dust (sporidia) copious. Often 
confluent for an inch in length, the separate, cusliion-like stromata 3—4 
lin. broad ; margin partially free.” 
AVe have seen no specimens, and copy the above description from 
Schw. Cooke, in Grev. XII, p. 78, says the cells of the (didymous) spo¬ 
ridia are subglobose and hyaline. 
30. IIypocrea Richarusoni, Berk. A Mont. On bark of dead 
poplar. 
Discoid-tubercular, scattered, or gregarious, dull purplish-red, cen¬ 
trally attached, 4 cm. across, deeply wrinkled, margin sublobate and free, 
whitish within. In Grevillea I A", p. 14, Berkeley states that the asci are 
clavate and the sporidia elliptic, and that it was lirst gathered in one of 
the Arctic expeditions by Sir J. Richardson. All the specimens we have 
seen are entirely sterile, like those in X. A. F., l‘’,21. Tubercidaria 
pez'izoidexi, Schw., is said to be the same. Its range appears to be north¬ 
ward from Maine to Wisconsin and west to Colorado and Utah. 
