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Pentstemon Kleei.— Near P. Rattani, 1.5-2.5 feet high, ill- 
scented, light green, and not glaucous, glabrous up to the glandular 
pubescent, narrow thyrsus; leaves sub-coriaceous, rather remotely 
and sharply serrulate or denticulate, the radical ones lanceolate, the 
cauline ovate-lanceolate, cordate and even the lowest more or less 
connate-perfoliate; sepals oblong and obtuse; corolla lilac-purple 
barely .75 inch long, the tube equalling the calyx, the lobes short- 
oblong, very obtuse; sterile filament long-bearded on the upper side 
nearly half way down. 
On the summit of Ben Lomond, the highest peak of the Santa 
^ruz Mountains, California. Collected by Mr. W. C. Klee in the 
month of June, 1883. 
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A New Genus of Sph^eriaceous Fungi. 
By Chas. H. Peck. 
NEOPECKIA, Saccardo. 
Perithecia carbonacea, subfragilia, superfcialia sed subiculo 
copioso effuso semiimmersa, globosa, papillata, denique latiusciile 
pertusa. Asci octospori, elongati, copiose j)araphysati, Sporidia 
didyma, fuliginea. 
A genere Amphispharia subiculi copiosi presentia diffcrt, ab 
^iichnosphmia et EriosphcEria sporidiis perfecte didymis, fuligineis 
recedit. Genus inter Pyrenoniycetes ph^odidymos locandum, 
clarissimo mycologo C. H. Peck, speciei typic^ illustratori jure 
i^entoque dicatum. 
Sphagna Coiilteri^ Peck in 
- - . .^, .^«.,^^, '^y-j P- 792; Enchnosphceria (?) 
Ce?////^/-/ (Peck) Sacc, Syll, Vol, ii., p. 207; Lasiosphceria acicola, 
U)oke, Grevillea, Vol. viii., p. 87, 1880. AmphispJmria (?) acicola 
l<-ooke) Sacc. Syll, Vol. i., p. 727. 
Perithecia ^z^^- diara., demum papilla amissa, perforata; asci, 
P^rs^ sporidifera 130-140=14-15; paraphyses copiosa^, filiformes ; 
sporidia utrinque obtusiuscula, 20-28=9-10, intense fuliginea. 
Habitu externo Enchnosphceria Pinetorum pcraffinis, sed fructifi- 
catio prorsus aliena,— P. A Saccardo. 
The specimens on which this species was founded were collected 
near Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming Territory, by Prof. J. M. Coulter, 
jO whom the species is dedicated. The fungus has since been col- 
iected on ^ the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, by Mr. C. G. 
Armgle- The type specimens of Lasiosp/iceria acicola^ Cke., are 
[^corded: *' On pine-leaves, Rocky Mountains." They are credited to 
r>r.Lyall. 
The genus, as already stated by Professor Saccardo, is distinguished 
"'*■''' ■ " " - - - and from EnchnosplKBria and 
^^ ^ irom Eoseiltnia by the unisep- 
t^te spores. ' ' 
The subiculum creeps over the dead leaves and twigs, binding 
tomentose, brown or rcddish- 
Neopeckia Coulteri (Peck) Sacc. 
Hajden's U. S. Geol. Survey, 1872, 
- - — fo^iiua, <i3 ttiiciiuy buiieu uy nun 
irom Amphisphceria by its subiculum, 
^-nosphieria by its colored spores ; f 
inem together and forming a soft, tomentose, brown or rcddish- 
'^rown stratum, in which the numerous perithecia are involved. 
