135 
110 X 1oy (p. sp. 80-85 X 10 4); sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, 
hyaline, 3-septate, each cell with 2 nuclei, hardly constricted, 14— 
16 X 7-8 », possibly becoming muriform. 
NUMMULARIA ALBOSTICTA EI]. & Morgan. 
On decaying hickory wood, Preston, Ohio. (Morgan, no. 
1178.) 
Stroma effused, thin, 1 mm. thick or a little over, 3-4 X I cm., 
mostly with a thin erect margin, slaty black, smooth, but dotted 
with the minute dirty-white punctiform ostiola ; perithecia oblong, 
1X 4-\% mm., crowded, asci cylindrical, 130 X 8-9 », stipitate, 
paraphysate; sporidia uniseriate, oblong-elliptical, subacute, pale 
at first, finally dark brown, 14-16 X 7-8 p. 
HoMOSTEGIA DIPLOCARPA E. & E. 
On Distichlis maritina, Rooks Co., Kansas, Sept., 1895. 
(Bartholomew, no. 1923.) 
Stroma subcuticular, black, convex, subelliptical, 1-2 mm. in 
diameter ; ascigerous cells minute, subseriate, producing two kinds 
of stylospores: minute suballantoid hyaline 5-7 X 1% y; and 
cylindrical nucleate spores, becoming 3-septate, 14-23 X 4-4% p, 
hyaline, becoming subolivaceous. 
CURREYA SANDICENSIS E. & E. 
On living leaves of Alphitonia ponderosa, Sandwich Islands 
(Kaui), 1895. (A. A. Heller, no. 2758.) 
Stromata hypophyllous, globose, 1-134 mm. in diameter, 
erumpent, yrayish-black ; ascigerous cells minute, globose, peri- 
pherical or subpolystichous, buried in the stroma which is dotted 
with the minute black punctiform erumpent ostiola ; asci oblong- 
obovate, abruptly contracted below into a short stipe, 8-spored ; 
sporidia irregularly crowded, cylindric-oblong, 3—5-septate, with 
one or two cells divided by a longitudinal septum, yellowish, 
19-22 X 6-8 yp, not constricted. 
The upper surface of the leaf opposite the strome is marked by 
a small, dark colored depression. 
DISCOMYCETES. 
PHIALEA AMPLA E. & E. 
On decaying wood of Salix, Mt. Paddo, Wash. (Suksdorf, no. 
493.) : 
_Gregarious, stipitate, obconic, or clavate at first, at length ex- 
panding, 3-4 mm. in diameter, and shallow cup-shaped; disk 
lemon-yellow, outside paler, farinose-pubescent or minutely striate, 
