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THE NORTH AMERICAN WYPOCREACE^. 
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61. llYPOCREA MOLLiuscuLA, Scliw. Fr. Eleiicli. II, p. 66. 
“Minute (1 line across), round, plano-convex; perithecia small, 
entirely hidden, connate, surface of the stroma roughened by tlie ostiola, 
pruinose, sooty-black. On rotten wood. I^ennsylvania.” 
Gen. V, IIYP03IYCES, Fries. 
Mostly parasitic on other fungi. Subiculum (stroma) cottony-velu- 
tinous. 
* Sporidia contimious. 
62. IIy^po3iyces Van Bruntianus, Ger. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 
IV, p. 64. 
Perithecia globose, densely crowded, pallid, hygrophanous, im¬ 
mersed, with a short, thick, exserted, obtuse mouth; subiculum white; 
sporidia oblong, hyaline, shortly apiculate at the broad end, obtusish 
at the other, 14—16 x 3i—4i p -; asci cylindrical. On the pileus, stipe 
and gills of an unknown Agaric. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (Gerard), Iowa, 
(Ilolway). 
63. IIYP03IYCES viRiDis (A. & S.). Consp., p. 8. Sacc., Syll. II, p. 
472. On Agaricus alutaceus, Carolina (llavenel), Pennsylvania (Mich- 
ener), New England (Sprague). 
Stroma broadly effused, with a dirty, yellowish-green tomentum 
and sterile margin; perithecia closely packed, ovoid or sphseroid, pale, 
with their conical apices projecting and becoming dark brown or black. 
Asci cylindrical, 170—180 x 7—8 /^-, containing eight elongated, straight 
or curved, mucronate sporidia, 28—30 x 5 /^, yellowish-hyaline, continu¬ 
ous or with the endochrome sometimes 2-parted. 
04. IIYP03IYCES POLYPORiNUS, Pk. 20th Rep. N. Y. State Mu¬ 
seum, p. 84. On Polyporus versicolor., N. Y. (Peck). 
Perithecia minute, ovate or subconical, seated on a pallid subiculum, 
smooth, yellowish or pale amber; asci narrow, linear; sporidia fusi¬ 
form, acuminate at each end, nucleate, 15—18 /^- long. The outward ap¬ 
pearance is almost exactly the same as that of Hypocrea 'pallida, E. & E. 
65. IIYP 03 IYCES APiosPORiJS, Cke. Grev. Xll, p. 80. On Clavaria 
pistillaris {?) N. Y. (Gerard). 
Effused, pale, thin; perithecia semi-immersed, slightly papillate 
(honey color when dry), ostiola indistinct; asci cylindrical, eight-spored ; 
sporidia lanceolate, apiculate above, rounded below, minutely rough¬ 
ened, continuous, yellowish (except the apiculus), 18 x 64 ,'f-. 
66. IIYP03IYCES BANNINGII, Pk. 
“ Subiculum white, then sordid; perithecia crowded, ovate with a 
papilliform ostiolum, pale amber or honey color; asci slender, cylin¬ 
drical ; spores uniseriate, oblong-fusiform, white in the mass, 30—37 x 4—5 
Decaying fungi, apparently some Lact.arius. Baltimore, Md. Miss 
Banning. The spores, in our specimens, are simple, but they may pos¬ 
sibly become uniseptate when old.” Copied from Bot. Gaz., H", p. 139. 
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