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slightly curved, 9-12 x 3/^. Texture of the cups/ fibrous, the fibres 
bearing at their free ends minute, oblong or subglobose brown conidia. 
On rotten wood oi Magnolia, Newfield, N. J., Oct., 1883. 
ScHizoxYLON MONiLiFERUM. — Caespitose,4-6 individuals clustered 
together; disc about 1.5™™' across, covered by the cinereous, thin inner 
membrane, which is soon perforated in the centre, revealing the pallid 
hymenium; margin of the outer membrane briefly reflexed and imper- 
fectly toothed; asci 250-300x6-8/^ surrounded by numerous para- 
physes; sporidia filiform nearly as long as the asci and very easily 
separating into many globose joints about 1.15/' in diameter. 
On dead and dry wood of oak {Querms coccuiea and Q. albd)^ 
mostly on some old wound or where a limb has been broken off. At 
first buried in the wood, except the disk, but at length more or less 
exposed (by the decay of the wood?) and then black outside, 
Newfield N. J.; autumn and winter. 
LeptosphvEria Physalidis. — Perithecia minute, depressed-glo- 
bose, of coarse cellular structure, with a rather broad opening above; 
asci 3S-4o>^7"8/i without paraphyses ; sporidia biseriate, fusiform, 
slightly curved, yellowish, 3-septate, 15-19x3//. 
On dirty, white, round spots on leaves of P hy salts pubescens^vi\'Oci 
Entyloma Physalidis, Winter. Near Lexington^ Ky., Aug. 1883, 
Prof, W. A. Kellermann. 
Sph.^ria (Teichosx^ora) muricata. — Perithecia gregarious or 
scattered, hemispherical, .33- s'*^^"^* in diameter, muricate-roughened 
and often obscurely radiate-striate around the prominent, very 
slightly compressed ostiolum, slightly pruinose, olivaceous when fresh, 
black and collapsed w^hen dry; asci cylindrical, with stout, granular 
paraphyses 2.5-3 /i thick; sporidia elliptical, brown, 3-septate, with 
one or more imperfect, longitudinal septa, 18-25x10-11.5/^. 
Differs from T. pezizoides, S. & S., in its larger, rougher perithecia 
and its larger asci and sporidia. 
On bark. San Diego, Cal;Ieg. C. R. Orcutt, com. C. J. Sprague. 
Anthostomella ostiolata, — Perithecia single or 2-4 together, 
.33- 5"^"^' in diameter, nearly buried in the unchanged inner bark, but 
with their upper part distinctly prominent though closely covered by 
the blackened epidermis, whicl; is pierced by the short, stout ostiolum; 
asci cylindrical, 80-85x7-8/^, with linear paraphyses ; sporidia 
obliquely uniseriate,oblong-elliptica], blown, i-2^nucleate,io-i3X4--5/^- 
Closely allied to A, limitata, Sacc, and A. intermedia, Nitschke. The 
stroma is formed of the unaltered substance of the bark and not lim- 
ited by any circumscribing line, 
Sph^.ria aquatica. — Perithecia scattered, membranaceous, 
^^^mm. -^ diameter, partly buried in the wood, subglobose or a little 
elongated; ostiolum papilliform; asci linear, i5ox8-6/nvith abundant 
paraphyses; sporidia uniseriate (end to end), oblong, uniseptate ana 
slightly constricted at the septum, straight or slightly curved, pale at 
first, v/ith a single large nucleus in each cell, at length clear darK 
brown, 15-20x6-7//. 1 
Inside a cedar water-pail in constant use; on the bottom anu 
around the lower part of the sides w^here it must have been ahnost 
constantly underwater. Newfield N. Jo Dec, 1883, 
