TflE NORTH AIMERICAN HYPOCREIACE^.. 
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Dr. C. J>. Plowright, in liis valuable monograph of this genus in 
(Irevillea, Vol. XI, says : “ Tliere are two varieties of this species, one 
with larger, pointed perithecia, as ligined by Greville and by Albertini 
iv: Schweinitz ; the other, with smaller and more obtuse perithecia. The 
.sporidia vary a good deal in size, as does the color of the subiculum, 
which is sometimes nearly absent. Sometimes it is almost white, but 
mostly rose colored, with a whitish margin.” The specimens from Mr. 
Meschutt were on decaying leaves,forming little patches i—1 cm. across. 
7o. IIa^pomyces OCHRACEUS, Pers. On decaying Agaricus. Penn¬ 
sylvania (Michener). 
Perithecia crowded, subglobose, yellowish, immersed, with a short, 
thick, obtuse, exserted ostiolum ; subiculum { Verticilliimi agaricinum, 
Cda.) at first white, then straw-colored, ochraceous and yellow ; asci cy¬ 
lindrical, 25—30 X (U containing eight oblong-lanceolate, uniseptate, 
constricted, 35 x !>■ sporidia, wiiich are mucronate at each end. 
7G. Hyp(^myces asteropttortts. Tub Parasitic on NyctaUs. Car¬ 
olina. (Ravenel.) 
Perithecia originating in an effused, byssoid stroma, in which they 
are thickly strewn, ovoid or spha3roid, narrowed above into amoreoiTess 
elongated neck, with an acute, pervious, ciliate ostiolum, pale, yellow¬ 
ish-brown, subhyaline, 150 y high by 70—90 y broad ; asci broadly ovate, 
abruptly attenuated below, 40—50 x 18—20 containing 4—0 narrowly 
lanceolate, slightly curved, mucronate at each end, l-septate, subhyaline, 
then dirty-yellow, 25—35 x 0 !>■ sporidia. 
Dr. Plowright, in his monograph already cited, says : “ The perithe¬ 
cia of this species of Hyponiyces dilfer considerably from those of the 
other members of the genus. They are formed of very large polygonal 
cells, which become elongated and parallel where they form the ostiolum 
and are formed by the intertwining of the dilated and convoluted bases 
of the conidial-bearing hypha3 that compose the stroma. These (the 
perithecia) are most frequently found upon the inside of the stem of the 
Xycialis, but they are by no meens of common occurrence.” 
77. llYP03n'CES T 03 IENTOSLTS, Fr. Found on same Agaric. Berk¬ 
eley. Notices of N. Am. Fungi, in Grevillea IV, p. 15. 
Of this species, but little appears to be known. It is stated by 
Cooke, in Grevillea XII, p. 80, that the asci are cylindrical and the 
sporidia lanceolate, mucronate at each end, uniseptate, hyaline and 
42—50 X 0—7 y . 
78. IlYR03iYCii:s iNSTGNis, B. & C. Fuugi Mexico, Xo. 0, p. 424. 
Bed ; mycelium effused; perithecia oblong, more deeply colored ; 
sporidia fusiform, apiculate at each end, 37 y long, spuriously l-septate, 
hyaline. On the hymenium and pileus of Cant/iarellas., which it covers 
with a red stratum and obliterates the gills. In Mexico, near Orizaba 
(Botteri). 
The above is copied from Saccardo’s Sylloge, A^ol. II, p. 472, and is 
all we know of this species. From the brief description, one might sup¬ 
pose that this and TT. /reu.s/mweu.v, Fk.. are the same. 
