Page:The Living Flora of West Virginia and The Fossil Flora of West Virginia.pdf/116

92 92

ТНК WEST VIRGINIA FLORA

Spennogonia (Cytispora Chionanthi E. & E.) buried in the bark, flask-shaped, .5 to .75 ц diameter, multilocular, the cells soon confluent, the apex erumpent and perforated by a single pore. Sporules allantoid, 4 to 6 x 1 to 1.25 ц, borne on basidia branched above, the branches erect, straight, nucleate,, 7 to 10 ц long. V. PAUPERatA C. & E. On Acer rubrum, March 26, 1894 (Nuttall, 1444, 423). V. i-EucosTOma (Pers.) Fr. On peach tree, Dec. 2, 1894 (Nuttall, 1768). V. Linderae Peck. On Benzoin Benzoin, April 11, 1895 (Nuttall, 1796). EUTYPELLA Nits. E. DENsissiMA E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 341 (1894). Type habitat: On dead limbs Aralia spinosa, Feb., 1894 (Nuttall, 363). Stromata scattered, cortical, depressed-conical, 2 to 3 mm. diameter, not circumscribed, but staining the bark olive-gray. Perithecia numerous, often 50 to 70 in a stroma, 100 to 120 ц diameter, closely packed, their slender necks terminating in obtusely conical, 4 cleft, black, densely crowded ostiola erumpent in a brown disk surrounded by the ruptured epi dermis. The disk is soon obliterated, so that only the crowded, black, subshining ostiola are seen. Asci clavatefusoid, p. sp. 25 to 30 x 4 ц. Sporidia biseriate, allantoid. hyaline, moderately curved, 8 to 10 x 1.5 to 2 /1. E. RugielLA (C. & E.) Sacc. On Acer rubrum. May 4, 1893 (Nuttall, 921). E. STelLULatA (Fr.) Sacc. On Robinia Pscudacacia, March 29, 1893 (Nuttall, 33). On Ailanthus, Monongalia: near Morgantown (Sheldon). E. Platini Sz. On Platanus occidentalis in drift. Spores 7.5 to 8 x 1.5 to 2 ц, Oct. 21, 1895 (Nuttall, 1885). EUTYPA Tul. E. spintos. (Pers.) Tul. On dry dead logs, June 29, 1893 (Nuttall, 1105). E. MILLIARIA (Fr.) Sacc. On river drift wood, April 20, 1894. Asci 150 x 6 ц spores юх2/1 (Nuttall, 1477). DIATRYPE Fr. D. Stigma (Hoffm.) Fr. On Castanea dentata, April 15, 1895 (Nuttall, 1799).