462 
Perithecia covered by the epidermis which is raised into dis- 
tinct pustules pierced by the papilliform conical or short-cylin- 
drical ostiolum, 300-400 » diam., membranous, black ; asci oblong- 
clavate, mostly curved, paraphysate, 8-spored ; sporidia fasciculate, 
cylindric-fusoid, 5-7-septate, scarcely constricted, second cell from 
the upper end moderately swollen, 45-557 yp. 
Eutyrecta SarcospaTi E. & E. 
On dead stems of Sarcobatus vermiculatus, Alamosa, Colo- 
rado, July, 1897. (Prof. E. Bethel, no. 324.) 
Stroma cortical, orbicular, 114 mm. diam., circumscribed by a 
narrow black line, the surface of the wood being also blackened ; 
perithecia 3-8, sunk to the wood, globose, 4mm. diam., with 
coriaceous walls, black and shining inside, contracted abruptly 
into slender necks enlarged above into the erumpent, connate ~ 
conical quadrisulcate ostiola ; asci ( p. sp. ) clavate cylindrical, 25— 
304-5 #4; sporidia subbiseriate, allantoid, curved, hyaline, 4-5 XI! 
—1%, pe 
VALSARIA CoLorRADENSIS E. & E. Am. Nat. 342. 1897, 1S 
a synonym of V. allantospora E. & E. Proc. Phil. Acad. 343. 
1894, and Asteroma ivaecolum E. & E. is the same as A. infuscans 
E. & E. Proc. Phil. Acad. 431. 1895, N. A. F. 3359. 
In Bull. Torr. Club, 285, 1897, change Phyllosticta Eucalyptt 
E. & E. to Phyllosticta extensa E, & E. on account of the homony- 
mous species of Thiimen, Contr. Fl. Lusit, no. 374, from which 
_ the California species differs in its amphigenous growth and larger 
sporules, 
HyYSTEROGRAPHIUM INCISUM E. & E. 
On dead limbs of Rhus aromatica, Gunnison, Colo., June, 1897; 
(Bethel, no. 289.) 
Perithecia oblong, partly sunk in the wood, lying parallel, 1-2 
XI mm., ends subacute, sides faintly longitudinally striate, lips 
closed, leaving a slight furrow between them; asci oblong-cylin- 
drical, short-stipitate, paraphysate, 8-spored, 75-80X12-I13 #3 
sporidia biseriate, ovate-oblong or ovate-elliptical, brown, 3-4-S€P- 
tate, with or without a partial longitudinal septum, 18-20X5-7 #- | 3 
Many of the perithecia have a transverse furrow across the middle 
as if cut across with a knife. 
HYSTEROGRAPHIUM INSIDENS (Schw.) 
On weatherbeaten wood of spruce, San Juan Mountains, Colo- 
rado, July, 1897. (Bethel, 352 partly.) 
