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globose or oblong ; sporules oblong-elliptical, hyaline, 10-12 
5—6u, sometimes a little bulging on one side. 
PHYLLOSTICTA SPHAEROPSISPORA E. & E. 
On leaves of Solidago confinis, Pasadena, Calif., Dec. 1895. 
(Professor A. J. McClatchie, no. 1051.) : 
Spots suborbicular, white, 3-10 mm. diam., with a narrow brown 
slightly raised margin; perithecia epiphyllous, hemispheric, prom- 
inent, black, 100-1204 diam; sporules obovate-elliptical, 13-I16X 
6-7, brownish, on stout pedicels 15X2%4p. 
PHYLLOSTICTA FIMBRIATA E. &. E. 
On leaves of Arbutus Menztsti, Ashland, Oregon, June, 1895. 
(Dr. J. J. Davis, no. 956.) 
Spots amphigenous, rusty brown below, cinereous, purple- 
margined and slightly raised above, irregular in shape, 2-6 mm. 
diam.; perithecia epiphyllous, not abundant, gray, 200-300» diam. ; 
hemispheric-prominent, fringed around the base with straight 
spreading simple closely septate hyphae 50-75X5y. Sporules 
variable in shape, oblong, 3-5X1%, elliptical, 4-6 2-3u, or glo- 
bose, 5—6x. 
Puoma Tuapsi E. & E. 
On dead stems of Verbascum Thapsus, Newfield, N. J., May, 
1897. 
Perithecia subhysteriiform, covered by the blackened epidermis 
which is pierced by the papilliform ostiolum; sporules oblong- 
elliptical, binucleate, obtuse, 5-6X 21%. 
Differs from P. verbascicola (Schw.) in its differently shaped 
perithecia, and larger 2-nucleate sporules. 
PuHoma Catirornica E. & E. 
On dead and dying stems of Gentiana serrata, San Bernardino 
Mts., Calif., S. B. Parish ; comm. A. J. McClatchie. 
Perithecia subcuticular, covered by the slightly raised and 
blackened epidermis ; sporules oblong, 3X34. 
Differs from P. Miesslii Sace. and P. Gentianae J. Kuhn, in its 
much smaller sporules. 
MACROPHOMA NERVICOLA E. & E. 
On the nerves of the leaves of Quercus alba, in company with 
Leptothyrium dryinum Sacc., Racine, Wis., Aug., 1896. (Dr. J. J. 
Davis, no. 963.) 
Perithecia buried with the apex slightly erumpent, 80-1204 
diam., sometimes two or three subconfluent; sporules oblong- 
fusoid, hyaline, 14-21 X6-8. 
