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Perithecia superficial, crowded. or -ometimes scattered, ovate-glo- 



bose, smooth, 400 it. diam.. black, lirni but thin-walled, finally slightly 

 depressed around the papilliform ostiolum. at first sparingly clothed 

 with conidia-bearing hairs. Asri clavate-fusoid, sessile. s-sporod. par- 

 aphysate. (>0-7"> i p. sp. 50-o"o x S-10 //.. Sporidia biscriate. elliptical, 

 hyaline, uniseptate, 1 '2-1 ox 57 n. 



On rotten wood, Carolina and Pennsylvania iSrhw.). on dry. 

 decorticated wood of Platanus, Canada ( Deai- 



M. subfascicnlata, (Sdnv.) 



subfascicnlatLi. Sclnv. Svn. N. Am. 1565. 

 Psila>p1ueria xiibfatticitljta, Cke. Syn. 2991. 



n at lir-t somewhat covered, but at length entirely de- 

 nuded. Allied to Bombardia fasciculata, but nioiv -cattere<l and 

 longitudinally subseriato. Pei-itheeia subfasciculate, black, i-u^ose. 

 subindurated, sometiiiM's -haped just like those Q$ ~B. fasciculata, but 

 often less elongated, subrotund and obtusely papillate, of smaller si/e 

 and sultconlluent. Asri? Spoi-idia (sec. Cke. (Jrev. X\'. p. 83) ellip- 

 soid, iinisejitate. hyaline. ^0 x S //. 



On decaying shoots of irrape vines. IJethleheiu. Pa. (Schweinitz). 



31. confertissima, (Plo\vr.) 



>'<>nf,'i ti.^^inia, Plo\vr. Grev. VII, p. 7,;. 

 M,'lani>fat tun i'iijci tissima, Sacc. Syll. 2253. 



Periihccia minute, den-ely ci'owded in patches, more scattered 

 circumrerentially. mutually compressed, subspherical, 80-100 x 10-1 5 /^ 

 Spoi-idia l>iseriate. uniseptate, subequal, lo-li<)xo //., hyaline. 



On scales of cone- of XefjHofa sempervirens, California. 



31. abscondita, E. & E. iin llerbj 



Perithecia hemisjtherical, obtuse, black, about J mm. diam.. scat- 

 tered or crowded and ,-ubconnate. connecte<l at base more- or less dis- 

 tinctly by a thin, black crust, ostiolum papillilbrm. obscure. Asci 

 clavate-cylindrical. j. sp. about 7oxl*2 //, with stout paraphyse- 

 Sporidia bisoriate. oblonu-l'usoid. uniseptate. and strongly constricted 

 at the septum, slightly curved, nucleate, sometimes with two additional 

 septa, 20-22x5-6 //.. 



Inside of old hickorv nuts decaviim 1 on the ground. 



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This has the outward appearance of Trematosphceria nn<-J<'<i,'t<i. 

 but the sporidia are very different. 

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