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.p. sp.) about 75x12 u. paraphysate, N-spored. Sporidia uniseriate or 

 subbiseriate above, oblong-elliptical, yellow-brown, with three main 

 septa, slightly constricted at the middle septum, finally multiseptate 

 and muriform, 18-25 x 11-13 /*. 



On dead limbs of Magnolia. Xewfield, N. J. 



The perithecia are mostly thickly gregarious or crowded, but not 

 cespitose. Accompanied by perithecia with brown, Diplodia sport- 

 rather smaller than the ascospoiv- 



C. Spartii, (Nees.) 



Spli&ria Spartii, Nees. in Fr. S. M. II, p. 424. 



Citcurbitaria Spartii, Ces. & De Not, Schema, p. 40, S'acc. F. Ital. tab. 532. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 974. Rab. F. E. 1440. Rehm Asc. 527 . Thum. F. Austr. 253. M 

 March. 34. 



Perithecia erumpent. crowded and confluent or cespitose. with ob- 

 tuse ostiola and sometimes with an imperfectly developed stroma. 

 globose, with the apex finally umbilicate-depressed, blackish, Asci 

 yliiidrical, short-stipitate, li>0-210x 10-12 a. with filiform paraphyses 

 Sporidia uniseriate, oblong, slightly constricted in the middle, 5-7- 

 -i-ptate and submuriform, goldon yellow-brown, 24-^30x8-10 . 



On dead branches of Sarothamnits xcojmritix (cult.), Newfield 1 

 N. J. 



( . Laburni, (Pers.) 



SphcEria Labuim, Pers. Syn. p. 50. 



Cucurbitaria Laburni, De Not. Krb. Crit. Ital. No. 375. 



Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 965. Kze. F. Sel. 104. Rab. Herb. Myc. 42. id. F. E. 1014. Rehm 

 Asc. 146. Thum. F. Austr ;->, id. M. U. 272. 



Cespitose on a subcompact stroma. Peritheria globose, rugulose, 

 black, with a papilliform ostiolum. Asci cylindrical, 110-170x11- 

 14 a. with branching pnraphysrs. Sporidia elliptic -fusoid, 26-36 x 9 

 -12 fjL, subuniseriate. 5-7--ptatc and muriform, slightly constricted in 

 the middle, golden-brown. 



On dead branches of Laburnum. Common in Europe and will 

 probably be found here. 



C. tumorum, (Schvv.) 



Sphteria tumorum, Sch\v Syn. X. Am 1417. 



The specimens of this species in Herb. Sch\v. afford only stylo 

 spores, Diplodia sp. 



(\ radicalis, Cke. Grev. VII. p. 51. 



Exsicc. Rav. F. Am. 344. 



Perithecia ovate, about J mm. diam., papillate, black, erumpent 



