SYNOPSIS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN IIYPOCREACEAi. 
7—9 /'. The conidial stage is a Tiibercularia about two millim. high, 
bursting out iu a seriate maimer through cracks in the outer bark, having 
an orange-red head aiid brick-red, stipitate base. From the basal or 
medial part of the stipitate base, perithecia originate and finally entirely 
surround and overtop the orange-colored heads of conidia, which are 
either entirely hidden or remain partially visible in the midst of the dense 
clusters of perithecia ; conidia oblong-cylindrical, hyaline, continuous, 
5—7 X !> . 
D. Sporidia rnuriform. [Fleonectria. Sacc.) 
115; Nectria Berolinensis, Sacc. Mich. 1, p. 128. [Nectria Eibis, 
Niessl., non Tode. Fleonectria Ribis, Knvst.) On dead stems of Ribis. 
.Massachusetts (Farlow), Michigan (Spalding), Wisconsin (Trelease), 
(Canada (Poe). 
Perithecia erumpent-superficial, ciespitose, globose-depressed, i—i 
millim. in diam., finally collapsing to cup-shaped, of a brick-red color and 
loosely-cellular structure; ostiolum not prominent; asci cylindrical, 
subsessile, 90—115 x 10—14 p, subtruncate above ; sporidia uniseriate, 
oblong-elliptical, obtuse at each end, 5—7-septate and muriform, not 
constricted, minutely guttulate, hyaline, 10—22 x 7—8 P. 
We are allowed to add the following notes from Dr. W. G. Farlow, 
who writes us that No. 0140, collected in Canada by Poe and marked in 
the Curtis collection, Nectria feneatrata, B. & C., but in Grevillea IV, p. 
40, referred to Spliccrostilbe pseudotrichia (Schw.), though evidently the 
same as the specimens collected by him in Massachusetts and distributed 
in N. A. F., No. 470, is diiferent from authentic specimens of Spfmria 
pHeudotrichia, Schw. (from Surinam), which, besides its peculiar-shaped 
conidia, has the ascospores larger, about 38 !>■, with a crenulated outline. 
Gen. Byssonectria, Karsten.—Stroma more or less byssoid ; 
perithecia subsuperficial, crowded ; sporidia (in the American species) 
hyaline. 
* Sporidia rontimious. 
110. Byssonectria fimeti, Ck. Grev. XI, p. 108. Hav. F. Am., 
040. Oil cow dung, Aiken, S. C. (Ravenel). 
]*erithecia gregarious or scattered, golden yellow, subglobose, seated 
on a byssoid, golden-yellow stroma, bare and glabrous above, tomentose 
below ; asci cylindrical; sporidia elliptical, continuous, hyaline, 15 x 8 p. 
* * Sporidia uniseptate. {Hyphoriectria). 
117. Byssonectria ciiry'so(;oma, Ck. & Hark. Grev. XII, p. 101. 
On wood of Eucalyptus, California. Ilarkness, 2821. 
Stroma librose-byssoid, golden yellow, effused ; perithecia gregarious, 
minute (1—H millim.), obovate, thin (tenuibus), dark yellow, semi- 
immersed in the stroma; asci clavate, 8-spored; sporidia biseriate, 
narrowly-elliptical, uniseptate, hyaline, 10 x 2—24 p. 
