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becoming at length 5- (or more) septate, constricted near the middle 



and more or less swollen, .00015' — .02'x. 00015' — .0002'. 



Nearly allied to S. Ogilviensis^ B. & Br., but the sporidia are 



larger and the perithecia not flattened nor collapsed. 



On dead leaves of Mertensia, American Fork Canyon, Utah. 



M. E. Jones. July, 1880. 



Sphaeria (Leptos.) leiostega. — Perithecia gregarious, pustuli- 



form and entirely covered by the cuticle, which is scarcely blackened 



above them; asci cylindrical ; sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, nearly 



hyaline, 3-septate, .0008'x. 00035' — .0004'. 



Allied to S.fuscella,^ B. & Br. 



On various dead twigs — Carya^ Rosa^ Vaccinhun^ etc, 



SphAeria Eckfeldtii. — Minute, scattered, erumpent, pustuli- 

 form, membranaceous, black, at length pierced; asci bag-like, ob- 

 ovate, about .0025'x.ooi'; sporidia inordinate, oblong, sub-hyaline or 

 fuscous at first, soon becoming brown and 3-septate, .ooi3'x.ooo3'. 



On bleached wood of Castanea^ near Philadelphia. January. J. 

 W. Eckfeldt, M.D. (Ellis, N, A, Fungi, No. 593.) 



Meliola maculosa. — Forming patches i-4th inch across, on the 

 under side of the leaf. Perithecia subglobose, perforated above, 

 seated on a mycelium of brown, branching, sparingly-septate, pros- 

 trate threads, and surrounded at the base with a few straight black 

 spreading hairs, about equal in length to the diameter of the peri- 

 thecium ; asci sessile, . cylindric, .oo2'x.ooo4'; sporidia irregularly 

 uniseriate, subhyaline, elliptical or ovate-elliptical, .0004' — .00045'x 

 .0002', uniseptate and constricted at the septum. 



On fallen leaves of Andromeda{}). June. {Venturia maculosa^ 

 N. A. Fungly No. 200.) 



Asterina nigerrtma. — Perithecia flattened, minute, .003' — .004' 



diameter, of a radiate, cellular structure; asci oblong-clavate, sessile, 

 .ooi3'x.ooo4'; sporidia crowded, oblong-clavate, slightly curved, 

 nearly hyaline, 4-nucleate, .00045' — .00015'; paraphyses none. 



The portion of the stem occupied by the fungus is blackened as 



if charred. 



On old stems of Ertgeron{l), lying on the ground. October.* 



§ 85. Helonias bullata, L., in Morris Co., N. J-— A reliable re- 

 port that this plant had been gathered by a lady, in a bog near the 

 town of Dover, induced me to hunt for it. My informant, Rev. E. E. 

 Butler, formerly rector of the Episcopal church of that place, and fa- 

 miliar with the vicinage, kindly offered to go with me and act as 

 guide. On the 12th of May we went from Easton to Dover by rail, 

 and drove thence four miles westward, to the village of Succasunna, 

 which lies on a plain of the same name between the mountains, at an 

 elevation of about 600 feet above tide. Passing along its single street 

 from south to north, we stopped at the last house, tied our horse to 

 a tree and followed the road on foot toward an extensive wooded 

 3wamp, which it crossed, a little distance beyond. Not a hundred 

 yirds from the house, I spied in a fence-corner a leafless shrub bear- 



*In the present and foregoing articles, where no locality is given the spe- 

 cies were collecteci in the vicmhy of Newfiehl, N, J, 



