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On dead limbs of Kahnia buried under old leaves in swampy 

 woods. Autumn. (Ellis, N, Am. Fungi, No. 415). 



Sphaeronema sphaeroideum. — At first covered by the epider- 

 mis, through which the coarse,brown hairs that clothe the perithecia are 

 clearly visible; soon erumpent, bald and rough, nearly as large as a 

 small turnip-seed ; ostiolum subconic, soon collapsing; stylospores 

 clavato-fusiform, slightly curved and faintly 3-septate, obtuse above 



and narrowed below into a slender stipe, together with which it is 

 about .0015' long. 



On dead herbaceous stems, Pleasant Valley, Utah. S. J. Hark- 

 ness. 



Graphium laxum. — Gregarious, gray; stems short and thick, the 

 threads spreading above and bearing fusiform-cylindric, 2. septate 

 conidia, .002' long. 



Makes a near approach to Cercospora. On living bean-leaves. 

 West Chester, Pa., September, 1880. W. T. Harris. (Ellis, N. Am. 

 Fungi^ No. 546). 



Cercospora Ilicis. — Seated on brown spots, which are limited 

 by a narrow, raised border; amphigenous, tufted; hyphae septate, 

 subnodulose, .002' — .0025' high; bearing at their tips clavato-cylin- 

 dric, hyaline, nucleate, and at length 1-3-septate conidia, which are 



.001 — .002' long. 



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Cercospora' acetosella. — Forming leaden-gray patches on the 

 dead and withered leaves; scattered thickly in minute tufts; the 

 erect hyphae short and sparingly septate, bearing at their tips lin- 

 ear-clavate, nucleate conidia, .002' — .0025' long. 



On Rumex Acetosella^ September. 



Propolis glauca.- — Outward appearance the same as that of P, 

 versicolor^ Fr., but the disk always glauco-cinereous; asci broad-cyl- 

 indric, sessile, .ooo33'x.ooo7'; paraphyses abundant, crisped and 

 branched at their tips; sporidia uniscriate, oblique, broadly ellipti- 

 cal, hyaline, binucleate, constricted in the middle and about .0007'x 



Qiiercus coccinea^ August. (Ellis 



0005 



m Rehm's Ascoiiiycetes^ No. 465). 



Stictis pustulata. — Pustuliform, black, closed at first but soon 

 perforated in the centre by a white, pruinose mouth, which is nearly 

 closed by the incurved, subfimbriate margin; asci cylindric, narrow, 

 .0035' long; sporidia filiform, as long as the asci. Hymenium dark 

 and shining when dry. 



On old stems of Trijoliiim pratense lying on the ground, April. 



Ailographum culmigenum. — Very minute, scarcely visible to the 

 naked eye, and lying in different directions on the matrix, linear, 

 straight or bent; asci ovato-globose, with a short stipe, about .0005'x 

 .0003', filled with hyaline sporidia, which appear to be ovato-pyri- 

 form and about .ooo2'x.oooo75'. 



On basal sheaths of old Andropogon. January. 

 ^ Peziza (Sarcoscyphae) Hainesii. — Sessile, urceolate, ^ — i'.^ 

 diameter, creamy-white within, covered with a rafous-brown, piloso- 

 tomentose coat, which is more distinct in the young plant, veined 



