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biseriate, allantoid, obtuse, moderately curved, hyaline, 12-16 K %— 
3 #; each of the small stromata contains 1-6 perithecia. 
Vasa Cettipis E. & E. 
On dead limbs of Celtis occidentalis, Rooks county, Kansas, 
March, 1896. (E. Bartholomew, no. 2082.) 
Stroma cortical ; perithecia circinate, immersed in the unaltered 
substance of the inner bark, ovate, with coarsely cellular mem- 
branous wall, about % mm. in diameter, with necks convergent 
and obscure ostiola united in an erumpent black disk; asci ob- 
long-lanceolate, 40-50 X 13-15 »; sporidia biseriate, oblong or 
oblong-elliptical, very slightly curved, 14-18 X 5-6, ends 
rounded and obtuse; the perithecia occur in subconfluent groups 
of 12-20 and are often laterally collapsed; the young stromata 
are multicellular, orbicular and depressed, the cells filled with al- 
lantoid, hyaline spermatia, 5—6 X 1% », exuding in nearly black 
thick wax-like cirrhi. 
VatsA AMORPHAE E. & E. 
On dead limbs of Amorpha fruticosa, Rooks Co., Kansas, 
Feb., 1896. (E. Bartholomew, no. 2048.) 
Perithecia circinate, 6-10 or more together, buried in the un- 
changed substance of the inner bark, ovate-globose, 300~350, in 
diameter, with coarsely cellular walls, often collapsing below when 
the bark is loosened;. necks stout, cylindrical, convergent, their 
obtusely conical smooth black ostiola piercing the epidermis, and 
rising slightly above it, sometimes at first united in a black disk, 
which is soon obliterated; asci clavate-cylindrical, 75-80 X 10- 
12, obscurely parayhysate, 8-spored, stipitate; sporidia subbi- 
Seriate, allantoid (often elliptical at first), hyaline, 10-18 X 3%4- 
4h. 
Possibly this might be considered a dwarf form of Valsa dissepta 
Fr., but all the specimens of that species in the different exsiccati 
have the perithecia and sporidia larger. This must not be con- 
founded with Autypella Amorphae E. & E. which is very distinct. 
Evtypetia Fici E. & E. 
On dead limbs of /icus, St. Martinville, La., March, 1896. 
(Langlois, no. 3443.) 
Perithecia in subcircinate clusters of 4-6, depressed-globose, 
11% mm. in diameter, buried in the unaltered substance of the 
inner bark which is uniformly blackened on the surface, not pene- 
trating to the wood or surrounded by any circumscribing line; 
ostiola short-cylindrical, 4-sulcate at the subacute tips, rising to- 
