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and subcrustaceous or nearly vanishing. Asci cylindrical, p. sp. about 

 75x5/2. Sporidia umseriate, elliptical, hyaline, 1-2-nucleate (becom- 

 ing uniseptate), 7-8 x 3 //. 



Parasitic on Tremelln ulbidu, Ohio Morgan, 894 

 The perforated apices of the perithecia just visible give the sur- 

 face of tlie stroina a minutely punctate appearance. 



P. Stroma discoid. Sporidia continuous, hyaline. 



H. eonsimilis, Ell. Grev. XII, p. 79. (Plate 11) 



Exsicc. EH. N. A. F., 158. 



Stroma orbicular or elliptical, convex, 2-3 nun. across, brick-red, 

 wrinkled, carnose. Asci clavate-cylindrical, 60-70x4 /./. Sporidia 

 uniseriate, hyaline, 10-12 x3J-4 /JL. 



On dead Azalea viscosu, Newfield, N. J. 



H. Riehardsoni, Berk. & Mont Grev. IV, p. 14. 



Exsicc. EH N. A. F., 1329. 



Discoid-tubercular, scattered or gregarious, dull purplish -red, cen- 

 trally attached, ^ cm. across, deeply wrinkled, margin sublobate and 

 free, whitish within. In Grevillea 1. <.. Berkeley states that the asci 

 are clavate and the sporidia elliptical, and that it was first found in 

 one of the Arctic expeditions by Sir J. Richardson. All the speci- 

 mens we have seen are entirely sterile, like those in N. A. F.. 1329. 



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Tubercularia pezizoidea, Schw., is said to be the same. Its range 

 appears to be northward from Maine to Wisconsin and west to Colo- 

 rado and Utah. 



On bark of dead poplar. 

 E. Stroma pidvinate or effused, sporidia fusoid, hyaline, uniseptate. 



H. apiculkto, C. & P. 29th Rep. N. Y. State Mus. p. 57. 



" Fleshy, soft, growing in irregular patches, smooth, ochraceous, 

 inclining to orange, the extreme margin barren. Asci cylindrical. 

 Sporidia fusiform with an apiculus at each end, uniseptate, colorless. 

 27-37x7|-10/r 7 . 



On the ground and on rocks, Catskill mountains. New York 

 (Peck). 



H. papyracea, Ell. & Hoi. Journ. Mycoi. II, p. 66. 



Stroma niembranaceons, thin, separable, 2-3 cm. across, white 

 with a yellow, substerile margin. Perithecia superficial, fawn-colored, 

 small (150 fj), thickly scattered on the stroma. Asci slender, about 

 75x3 (JL, (spore-bearing part about 60 ), without paraphyses. Spor- 



