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alike, and none of them much ribbed, another with the outer akenes 
ribbed (not corky-winged) and very hirsute. 
The species should be collected abundantly in all localities where 
it occurs, and the specimens diligently compared. I regard it as an 
interesting subject of future investigation. 
New Species of Fungi. 
F 
By J. B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart, 
DiAPORTHE (Valsa) Ellisit, Rchm (/// lit^, — Stroma cortical, 
mm. 
without any circumscribing line; perithecia numerous (15-20), .5 
in diameter, crowded, subcircinate, raising the bark into small pus- 
tules, through the centre of which bursts the brown convex disk pierced 
around its margin by the black, obtuse, dot-like ostiola; asci-subcla- 
vate, 57x8yw; sporidia biseriate or overlapping, narrowly elliptical, 4- 
nucleate, and often slightly constricted in the middle, 1 1-15x3. 5-5-5/'- 
With a Cytispora, the spores of which are oblong, hyaline, 4-nucle- 
ate, 8-1 1x2-2. 5/i and issue in an orange-colored mass. 
Closely allied to Diaporthe carpinicola, Fkl., and Valsa Carping Fr. 
On dead branches of Carpinus Americana. West Chester, Pa. 
June, 1882. E. H. J. & G. No. 372. 
Valsa lasiostoma.— Perithecia circinatfng, .33-.5"""' in diameter, 
globose, and tuberculose-roughened, lying on the suface of the mner 
bark, or slightly bedded in it, their long 1^100-150/^), slender, cylm- 
drical, decumbent necks converging and piercing the epidermis in a 
group, but not united in a disk; asci (spore-bearing part) 35-40x4- 
5JM; sporidia cylindrical, hyaline, nearly straight, 5-6 x 1.5-2/^. 
The ostiola are slightly swollen above, and, with the exception of 
the bare, black, obtuse tips, are covered with an olive-brown pubes- 
cence as in Sphcsria barbirostris, Dufour, from which this scarcely 
differs in any respect except in its circinate perithecia. ^ , j m 
On decaying white oak limbs lying on the ground. Newfield, N. 
J. March, 1883. 
CucuREiTARiA CoREMiE.— Pcrithccia at first subcuticular, J)ut 
finally throwing off the epidermis, ovate, black, rough, •16-.33'" ' ^^ 
diameter, ostiola broadly papilliform on obtuse conic; asci cylindri- 
cal, 150XT5;/; sporidia uniseriate and oblique or partly biseriate, 
elliptical or oblong-elliptical, yellow at first, becoming finally deep 
brown, about 7-septate, with some partial longitudinal septa, and 
mostly constricted in the middle, 20-25x7-9;/. 
On dead branches of Corema Conradii. Willow Grove, N. J., 
November, 1883. „,^ 
LopHiosTOMA STENOSTOMUM.—Perithecia scattered, globose^, .25 
in diameter, covered by the fibres of the bark, which is pierced by 
the narrow, slightly compressed ostiolum; asci clavate-cylindrical, 
75-90x6-7 /i; paraphyses filiform, abundant; sporidia biseriate, fusi- 
form, slightly curved, yellowish, nucleate and uniseptate at first, 
becoming 3-septate and more or less constricted at the septa, 18-22X 
Accompanied by a Phoma with small, subglobose spores in peri- 
thecia scarcely different from the ascigerous ones except in wanting 
