E-text prepared by Victoria Woosley, La Monte H. P. Yarroll, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 21761-h.htm or 21761-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/1/7/6/21761/21761-h/21761-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/1/7/6/21761/21761-h.zip) Transcriber's notes: Irregularities or errors in spelling, punctuation or capitalization have been preserved as in the original text. Text bolded in the original is delimited by '#', underlined text by '=' and italic text by '_'. The paragraphs immediately before and after "SECTION 2. PHYLACIA." were rendered in smaller font in the original text. The context does not seem to indicate an intent to block quote (see "SPECULATION" later in text), so this has been transcribed as normal text. =SYNOPSIS= OF =SOME GENERA= OF THE =LARGE PYRENOMYCETES= CAMILLEA THAMNOMYCES ENGLEROMYCES _by_ C. G. LLOYD CINCINNATI, OHIO, JANUARY, 1917 THE GENUS CAMILLEA. The receipt of a nice specimen of Camillea Cyclops from Rev. Torrend, Brazil, has induced us to work over the similar species in our collection. On our last visit to Europe we photographed the various specimens we found in the museums, but did not study them as to structure. However, they make such characteristic photographs that we believe the known species can be determined from our figures. We are all familiar with the common Hypoxylons that form little globose, black balls, usually on dead limbs, in our own woods. They have a solid carbonous interior with the perithecia imbedded near the surface. There have been over two hundred alleged Hypoxylons, mostly from the tropics. We have never worked them over, but suspect that a number of them from the tropics, when examined, will be found to be Camilleas. If the specimens were examined, no doubt "prior" specific names would be found for several of this list.[1] In the old days all similar carbonous fungi were called Sphaeria. Montagne first received a section of Sphaeria with cylindrical form, from South America. The perithecia were long, cylindrical, and were arranged in a circle or were contiguous, near the summit of the stroma. He proposed to call it Bacillaria, as a section of Sphaeria, but the name being preoccupied, he, at the suggestion of Fries, afterwards named it in honor of himself, Camillea, Montagne's first name being Camille. The original species were separated into a genus by Montagne in 1855, and five species listed, and it is a curious fact that these five species, as well as all others that have since been added, are of the American tropics. I have not worked over the "Hypoxylons" in the museums, but as far as the records go the genus Camillea does not occur in other tropical countries.