Annual Report of the State Botanist 1892 - MykoWeb

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Report of the State Botanist.
long, .0003 to .0004 broad ; paraphyses sliglitly surpassing the
asci, several times forked or multifid at the apex.
Dead branches of mesquit, Prosopia juliflora. Austin, Texas.
November. Underwood.
This species is apparently related to B. Braziliense, from
which I have separated it because of its more slender asci and
smaller spores.
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Chaetophoma setigera n. sp.
Perithecia minute, .003 to .005 in. broad, gregarious, epiphyl-
lous and amphigenous, subglobose, black, seated on a thin effused
superficial separable blackish stratum of interwoven filaments
and adorned Avith a, few slender erect or divergent black setce
.003 to .0045 in. long ; s]iores numerous, minute, elliptical or
oblong, colorless, .00016 to .00024 in. long, .00008 to .OnOl broad,
often with a minute nucleus at each end.
Living leaves of coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia. Berkeley,
California. March. M. B. Howe.
Cylindrocolla Dendroctoni /Vt.
(Flora of West Virginia, p. 516.)
Sporodochia minute, forming irregular masses, white or whitish,
somewhat waxy; sporophores slender, abundantly branched
above, often compacted below into a short stem-like base ;
spores
catenulate, short cylindrical, subtriincate, colorless, .0001 G to
.0002 in. long, .00008 to .0001 broad.
Dead insects, Dendroctonns frontalis, and the inner bark of
pine just about them. "West Virginia. May. C. F. MilU^paugh.
The insects are probably killed by the fungus as they lie dead
in the furrows which they had excavated in the inner bark of
pine trees, Pinus inops.
(E.)
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS.
Anemone Virginiana Z.
The variety with white obtuse petals was found near
Whitehall
Anemone nemorosa L. var. quinquefolia.
Common near Delmar, also at Karner. May.