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. NOTES ON FLORIDA FUNGI. 
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Diatrype Comptonije, E. & E.— On dead, partially decorticated 
stems of Comptonia asplenifoUa^ Newfield, N. J., May, 1886. Stroma 
ernmpent, snbtuberculiform, small (1—3 millim,), siibhemispheric or 
elongated, dull black outside, whitish within and consisting of the 
scarcely altered substance of the wood; perithecia often single in the 
smaller stromata, or in the larger and more elongated ones 2—12, with 
thick walls, ovate or subangular from mutual pressure, i—millim. in 
diam., contracted above into a short neck, with a short, cylindrical or 
subconic, slightly projecting, smooth ostiolum ; asci clavate, 75—85 p 
long, including the slender, stipitate base, surrounded with abundant 
paraphyses and containing eight subfusoid, yellowish-brown, 3-septate, 
slightly curved, 12—-15 x 4—5 !'■ sporidia, which are crowded into the 
upper half. The general appearance is much like that of D. quercina, Er., 
var. lignicola^ C. & E. The ostiola are not sulcate and have a smooth, 
round opening. The stromata arise either directly from the wood or are 
seated on the lower stratum of tlie bark denuded by the flaking off of the 
sJiperlicial layer. 
(To be continued.) 
NOTES ON FEORIDA FUNGI.-No. 7. 
BY W. W. CALKINS, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 
THE POLYrORI. 
The following species, collected in Florida during the past winter, 
were studied and named by Mr. Ellis, and are the subject of the first 
complete paper by me in a series intended to embrace all the results of 
my investigations in that prolific Held. Florida, projecting southward 
for four hundred miles and washed by the shores of two oceans, her cli¬ 
mate tempered also by the Gulf stream, naturally offers superior and 
unique advantages to the naturalist which cannot be enjoyed in any 
other section of our country. From its geographical and subtropical 
position and close proximity to the West Indies, wo may reasonably 
expect to find in the southern part of Florida a cryptogamic flora similar 
to that of those islands. This has proven true of her phaiiierogamic bot¬ 
any. and, so far as explored, no less so in the lower forms. Therefore 
we regard mycologic study in this field as more than usually interesting. 
Tims far the efforts of two or three others and of myself have been con¬ 
fined to a narrow strip of country adjacent to Jacksonville, which local¬ 
ity is extra-limital as regards the species of subtropical Florida, a region 
tliat fairly begins somewhat further south. We have, however, already 
found what may be called luaifs from the Indies, and may expect to find 
in the southern half of the peninsula an exact counterpart of the adja¬ 
cent Ealmmian mycologic flora. 
