Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes | Page 2

it from Brazil, Spruce, but I think it has not been collected in
recent years. Our figure 826 is from specimens in Montagne's
herbarium, and these are three times as long as the specimen
Montagne pictures. I saw no such short specimens. Patouillard has
given a detailed account of the structure of the plant. The perithecia
are arranged in a circle neat the apex of the stroma. The spores are
spindle shaped (rather than caudate, as Montagne shows them) and 25

to 35 mic long. Patouillard claims that Hypoxylon melanaspis has
same spores and structure, and is the pulvinate form of Camillea
Leprieurii. It does not seem possible to me, but I can not say to the
contrary.
CAMILLEA BACILLUM (Fig. 827).--Stroma cylindrical, black, 1 cm.
long, 1 mm. thick. Apex truncate, shown punctulate in Montagne's
drawing. Spores dark, reniform.
[Illustration: #Fig. 827.#]
This is very similar to the preceding in shape, but is a much smaller
species with different spores (teste Montagne). We have only seen the
originals in Montagne's herbarium, from which our figure is made. The
drawing given by Montagne represents the plant better than our
photograph. Montagne records the species from Cuba and French
Guiana. We think it a very rare plant.
CAMILLEA MUCRONATA (Fig. 828).--Stroma cylindrical, black, 6
mm. long, 3 mm. thick. Apex with a prominent, mucronate point.
Perithecia linear, contiguous, near the apex of the plant. Asci
cylindrical. Spores oblong (M.) 3½ to 4 × 10 mic., colored.
[Illustration: #Fig. 828.#]
This also is a rare species, only known from the original collection by
Leprieur, French Guiana. Our photograph is from the type. In the
original drawing there is a circle of little acute protuberances shown
near the apex of the plant. We can see but faint indication of them in
our photograph.
CAMILLEA LABELLUM (Fig. 829).--Plant short, cylindrical, about a
cm. tall and thick, with a depressed disc. Perithecia contiguous,
forming at layer beneath the disc. Spores (M.) fusiform, dark, 30 mic.,
long.
I believe the plant is only known from the original collection in
Montagne's herbarium, from Leprieur, French Guiana. It does not

follow, however, that it is such a rare plant, but only that the plants of
the region have been scantily collected. Our figure is a photograph of
the types.
[Illustration: #Fig. 829.#]
CAMILLEA TURBINATA (Figs. 830-833).--Plants obconic or turbinate,
about a cm. tall and broad, growing in a dense cluster from a common,
mycelial carbonous base. The summit is truncate, and marked with a
raised central disc, which is thin and in old plants breaks irregularly. A
section of a young plant (Figs. 831 ×6) shows the lower part composed
of rather soft, carbonous tissue, the upper filled with a light brown
powder, composed of spores mixed with hyphae tissue. In old plants the
tops break in, the powder is dissipated, and there remains (Fig. 833) a
bundle of carbonous tubes, the walls of the perithecia. Finally, these
break up and disappear, leaving the upper part of the plant hollow. The
spores are elliptical, 6-7 × 16-18 mic., smooth, light colored. The asci
which disappear at at very early stage, are shown by Moeller as oval,
each containing 8 spores.
This is at common plant in our American tropics, and was named by
Berkeley, as Hypoxylon turbinatum, but in a later paper he referred it
to Camillea turbinata. It is compiled in Saccardo as Hypoxylon. I doubt
not but that it was named Sphaeria caelata by Fries many years
"prior." Spegazzini found it abundantly, and noting that it was not a
good Hypoxylon, puzzled over it in two or three papers and finally also
concluded that it was at Camillea. Moeller also "discovered" it, and
although the common plant was well known in other centers, the
rumors had not reached Berlin, hence he "discovered" it was a new
genus, which he dedicated to his friend, Dr. Hennings and called it
Henningsinia durissima. Fortunately, he gave a good figure by which
his "discovery" could be interpreted.
We have beautiful specimens from Dr. J. Dutra, Brazil, from which our
figure was made, also we have specimens from Rev. Rick.
[Illustration: #Fig. 830.# Camillea turbinata. (Side view, natural
size.)]

[Illustration: #Fig. 831.# Section with spore mass (X 6).]
[Illustration: #Fig. 832.# Same, top view.]
[Illustration: #Fig. 833.# Section after dispersion of spores.]
CAMILLEA CYCLOPS.--Plants short, cylindrical, or semi-globose,
black, about 4 mm. in diameter, erumpent from a common mycelial
origin, and distributed regularly over the matrix. They are produced at
intervals of about ½ cm, and apparently never two contiguous. Apex a
circular, rounded depression, with a slightly elevated disc. Perithecia
arranged in a central bundle, with permanent, carbonous walls (Fig.
835 ×6). Spores oblong, 8 × 12, pale colored.
[Illustration: #Fig. 834.# Camillea Cyclops.]
[Illustration: #Fig. 835.#]
While this as probably not a