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ing; disk pallid; asci cylindrical, short-stipitate, paraphysate, 
8-spored, 75-85 7-9 4; sporidia fasciculate, acicular, hyaline, at- 
tenuated towards each end, continuous, faintly nucleolate, 50- 
60X2~2%% »; paraphyses stout, rather longer than the asci, 2-2%4 
thick, tips scarcely swollen but slightly undulate or bent. 
Resembles overgrown Solenia anomala Hoff. 
Crypropiscus ANDERSONI E. &. E. 
On dead stipes of Preris aguilina, Newfield, N. J., May 10, 
1890. (F. W. Anderson.) 
Ascomata pale flesh-color, elliptical, % mm. long, covered by 
the epidermis which is soon split with an acutely elliptical slit 
exposing the hymenium; asci clavate-cy!indrical, 27-304 yp, ses- 
sile, 8-spored ; paraphyses filiform, subramose at the tips and bear- 
ing subglobose hyaline conidia 2 » diam.; sporidia biseriate, fusoid- 
cylindrical, 3-septate, 11-141 14-2 p. 
STICTIS SERPENTARIA FE, & E. 
On decorticated Safx, Mt. Paddo, Wash., alt., 7,000 ft., Sep- 
tember, 1894. (W.N. Suksdorf, no. 481.) 
Ascomata erumpent, orbicular or elliptical, 1-2 mm. in the 
longer diam., cinereous-gray inside, disk slate-color, suburceolate, 
margin gray, dentate-lobed, revolute; asci cylindrical, subsessile, 
300-350X 15 ws; paraphyses filiform, scarcely thickened, but slightly 
colored at the tips; sporidia 8 in an ascus, fusoid-cylindrical, mul- 
tiseptate ( 50-60 or more), slightly constricted at the septa, nearly — 
as long as the asci in which they lie straight and parallel, but 
when free, loosely coiled in a serpentine manner, 4-5 thick. 
S. pachyspora Rehm, is on Adies and the ascomata are only 
300-400 diam., with asci 220X274, but the sporidia are the 
same as in the Washington specimens. What we here propose 
as Stictis serpentaria is certainly very near Dr. Rehm’s species, dif- 
fering principally in size. 
ScuizoxyLon sicotor E. & E. 
On decorticated wood of Sa/ix, Empire, Colo., May, 1897. 
( Bethel, 360 and 285 .) : 
Ascomata erumpent, 1-2 mm. diam., closed at first by a thin, 
olive-gray membrane, then with a round opening bordered by the 
horizontally incurved, white pulverulent, subfimbriate margin; 
disk shallow-urceolate, bright orange-yellow ; asci cylindrical, at- 
tenuated above, 200-250X6-8 y, subsessile, with filiform para- 
physes ; sporidia filiform, nearly as long as the asci, multinucleate, 
