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broad, elliptical ostiolum. which is finally cleft with an elongated open- 

 ing. Asci clavate, short-stipitate, 90-110x15-18 p, 8-spored, paraph- 

 } sate. Sporidia subbiseriate, broad-fusoid, brown, narrowed towards 

 each end, sometimes curved, 5-9-septate, 40-55 x9-12 p. 



On bark of dead oak, N. J., New York (Peck), Carolina and 

 Pennsylvania (Schw.) 



L. tnrritum, C. & P. Peck's 29th Rep. p. 64. Grov. tab. 68. fig.2. 



Perithecia subgregarious, emergent, prominent, snbglobose, black, 

 with broad, compressed, truncate necks and elongated ostiola. Asci 

 cylindrical or clavate. Sporidia oblong-elliptical, 5-septate, brown, 

 20-23 p long. 



On dead branches of Salix, New York. 



L. excipuliforine, (Fr.) 



Sphceria excipuliforme, Fr. S. M. II, p. 469. 

 Lophiostoma excipuliforme, Ces. & De Not. Schema, p. 45, 

 Kxsicc. Rehni. Asc. 238. 



Perithecia scattered or gregarious, partly sunk in the matrix or 

 nearly superficial, spherical, black, about 1 mm. diam., with a slightly 

 compressed, prominent ostiolum obtuse and enlarged above. Asci 

 cylindrical, short stipitate, 8-spored, 280-300 x 20-26 ,, with filiform 

 paraphyses. Sporidia. subbiseriate or uniseriate, oblong, 6-9-septate, 

 not constricted, brown, with the end cells subhyaline, 44--66 x 15-18 p., 

 (Winter). The specimens in Rehm's Asc. 238, have asci (p. sp.) about 

 1 50 x 1 2 //, sporidia 30-50 x 8-1 p. / 



Var. Abietis, E. & E., Journ. Mycol. IV, p. 64, on bark of Abies, 

 Cazenovia, New York (Underwood & Cook), differs from the usual 

 type, on bark of deciduous trees, in its larger (60-75 x 12-16 //) spo- 

 ridia and its rather narrower ostiolum. 



We have seen no American specimens of the normal form, on 

 bark of deciduous trees. 



L. macrosporum, Speg. Mich. I. p. 466, F. Ital. tab. 607. 



Perithecia scattered, emmpent, sphaeroid, 1 mm. diam., globose? 

 dull black. Ostiolum compressed, extending J-| way across the ver- 

 tex of the peritheciurn. Asci broad clavate-cylindrical, 225-300x40- 

 50 p, with a short stipe and abundant, conglutinated paraphyses. 

 Sporidia crowded-biseriate, oblong, slightly curved, obtuse, 7-9-sep- 

 tate and often slightly constricted in the middle, brown, the cells filled 

 with large nuclei, so as to appear muriform, though not really so y 

 80-100x20-25 . 



