BULLETIN 



OF THE 



TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 



Vol. IX-1 New York, June, 1882. [No. 6. 



New Species of North American Fungi. 



By J. B. Ellis. 

 Ombrophila albofusca. —Orbicular, ^-i mm. in diameter, 

 dirty white when fresh, becoming darker in drying; margin very 

 thin and narrow; asciclavate-cylindrical, .ooo3'-.ooo35'x.ooo3'-.ooo4 ; 

 paraphyses filiform; sporidia oblong or oblong-fusiform, ^hyalme, 

 2-nucleate, mostly in the upper part of the asci, .0003 -.00045 



X .oooi5'-.oooi75'. 



On bark of Magnolia glauca. 



Peziza (Tafesia) cornuta. Gregarious, minute, dull white 



(flesh-color when dry), sessile, thin membranaceous, subfibrous, 

 margin sparsely fringed with straight, 4-5-septate, white, spreading 

 hairs; asciclavate-cylindrical, .oo2'-.oo25'x.ooo35'-.ooo4 ; paraphy- 

 ses filiform ; sporidia biseriate, fusiform, 3-nucleate and at length 

 uniseptate, . 0005'x. 00015', each end furnished with a short bristle- 

 like appendage. . . , 



I have not seen P. arachnoidca, Schw., but that is said to be 



white villous," while this is only ciliate. 



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On decaying chestnut-wood. Westchester, Pa., June, 1879. 



■ Sphaeria (Anthostoma) mortuosa. Penthecia scattered, 



depressed, covered by the cuticle, which is elevated,_ blackened and 

 pierced by the short cylindricjil ostiolum ; asci cylindrical, sessile, 

 about .oo4'x.ooo4'; sporidia uniseriate, broad navicular, 1-2-nu- 

 cleate, dark brown, .ooos'-.pooy'x .0003 . 



Nearly allied to Anthostoma Italicum, Sacc. & Speg. 



On basal sheaths of old Andropogon; also on dead stems of 

 Polygonum 2.\\^ Eupatoriuinpurpurenm. (N. A. F., No. S97.) 



Sphaerl^ GRAOPSis.-Perithecia scattered, erumpent, membra- 

 naceous, globose or subelongated, par.tially collapsing above, .001 - 

 .0015' in diameter, rough and more or less covered with fragments of 

 the bleached fibres of the wood ; ostiolum papdhform, slightly prom- 

 inent, surrounded by a slight depression ; asci oblong, mostly bulg- 

 ing on one side, sessile, .oo2'-.oo23'x .0008 -.001 ; paraphyses none 

 sporidia 8, inordinate, oblong-elliptical or oblong-navicular, hyahne 

 at first, becoming pale yellowish-brown, endochrome once divided, 

 .oooS'-.ooi'x .00035'-. 0004'. 



Allied to S. Eckfddtii and S. inflata. Ell. 



On decorticated pine poles. (N. A. F., No. 780.) ^ 



Ceritostoma carpophila.— Perithecia subglobose, .003 m diam- 

 eter, rough ; ostiolum capillary, three times or more as long as the 

 diameter of the perithecia, and more or less crooked or bent; asci 

 slender, about .002' long ; paraphyses filiform ; sporidia unisenate 

 or biseriate, fusiform, yellowish. .000175 -oo^^? lo"g- 



The fruit is almost exactly that of Sphaeria echtnophila, Schw 

 which is found with it. The perithecia and ostiola are beset with 



