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vent, uneven; sporangiola discoid, 114 mm. in diameter, becoming 
dark, concave and wrinkled when dry, the surface overrun with 
slender (3 » thick) brown interwoven threads. Spores globose or 
elliptical, 20-27 * 15—20p. 
Growing (sec. Mr. B.) “head downward.” Distinguished by 
its slender growth, large spores, and the tuft of reddish-brown to- 
mentum at the base. 
MELIOLA ACERVATA E & E. 
On leaves of Physalis Peruviana, Kaui (S. I.). 1895. (A. A. 
Heller, no. 2773.) 
Epiphyllous. Perithecia globose, 150-200 in diameter, of 
coarse cellular structure and like the mycelium unarmed, collected 
in little heaps or dense clusters I mm. in diameter or less, and 
fringed with abundant brown branching mycelium of the usual 
type; capitate hyphopodia alternate, obovate, 12-14 X 8-10 p; 
mucronate hyphopodia less abundant, smaller, ovate, opposite, 
with a slender straight beak 6-8 » long; asci oval, short-stipitate, 
40 X 20 p, 2-4-spored; sporidia oblong-cylindrical, obtuse, 4-sep- 
tate, scarcely constricted, 30-35 X 12 y. 
ASTERINA SPHAERELLOIDES FE. & E. 
On leaves of Clematis perswacfolia, Sandwich Islands, 1895. 
(Heller, no. 2394.) 
Mycelium reticulated, brown, forming small black suborbicular 
spots (I mm. diameter), often subconfluent; perithecia seated on 
the mycelium, black, ovate-globose, papillate, 80-90 in diameter; 
asci oblong, sessile, aparaphysate, 30-35 X 10-12»; sporidia ir- 
regularly biseriate, pyriform, uniseptate, brown, not constricted, 
10-12 X 3-34». 
There was also an immature J/e/iola on the same leaves. 
ROSELLINIA CONFERTISSIMA E. & E. 
On rotten wood, Ohio. (Morgan, no. 1173.) 
Perithecia superficial, densely gregarious, globose, 350-500 
in diameter, thin-walled and brittle, farinose-pubescent, becoming 
nearly glabrous; ostiolum prominent, mammiform; sporidia 
elliptical, 8-10 X 4 », continuous, brown. 
ROSELLINIA MACRA E, &. E. 
On leaves of some monocotyledonous plant, Florida. (Morgan 
no. 1134.) 
