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CYTISPORA TUMULOSA E, & E. 
On dead buds of Magnolia Fraseri, Nuttallburg, West Va., 
March, 1896. (Nuttall, no. 808.) 
Stroma cylindric-conical, erumpent, brown, lighter inside, 
about I mm. rboad,the upper erumpent part 34 mm. high; 
sporigreous cells perithecioid, whitish, globose, sunk in the lower 
part of the stroma; sporules allantoid, hyaline, curved, 6-8X 
1p. 
a -CyYTISPORA ANNULARIS E & E. 
On bark of dead Fraxinus Americana, Aberdeen, So. Dakota, 
Apr. 1897. (David Griffiths, no. 1.) : 
Stroma sunk in the inner bark, ovate-globose, about 300, diam., 
cells obsolete, apex erumpent, with a small round opening sur- 
rounded by a white ring, presenting outwardly almost the same 
appearance as Stictis stigma C. & E; sporules allantoid, 4-5 * 
1%» on fasciculate basidia 12% 1%,» branched above. 
Sporules smaller than in C. deucosticta E. & B. or C. albiceps E. 
& K. and larger than in C. deucostoma B. & C.; evidently different 
from C. Persicae Schw. and from C. leucostoma Sacc. 
SPHAEROPSIS COMPTONIAE E. & E. 
On dead shoots of Comptonia, Newfield, N. J. Apr. 1897. 
Perithecia scattered, globose, 300» diam., buried except the 
erumpent apex; sporules oblong-elliptical 15-20X9—I0y. 
Dietopia Meise E. & E. 
On dead limbs of Media, Louisiana. (Langlois, no. 2446.) 
Perithecia scattered, or sometimes 2 or 3 together, at first 
covered by the epidermis but soon suberumpent; sporules ob- 
long-elliptical, 17-20 8-10, becoming tardily uniseptate. 
DIPLODIA PARAPHYSATA E, & E. 
On bark of Zi#a, Nuttallburg, West Va., March, 1896. (L. W. 
Nuttall, no. 832.) : mre ce 
Perithecia sub-cuticular, depressed-globose, pilose-tomentose, 
black (white inside) 300-400 » diam., with papilliform ostiolum, 
raising the epidermis into pustules and finally rupturing it, thickly 
scattered, often 2-3 sub-confluent; sporules ovate-elliptical, 
hyaline at first, then brown and uniseptate but not constricted, 22—- 
27X12-154, accompanied by stout branching paraphyses 100- 
110 long by 114-2» thick and borne on stout basidia mostly 
shorter than the sporules. ae ia 
Melanconis titacea Ell. was found on the same specimens. — 
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