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Mostly on herbaceous xtetus; sporidia 5- or more-septate. 

 L. stictostoma, (B. & .) 



Sphczria stietostonia, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 151. 

 I^eptosphccria stietostonia, Sacc. Syll. 3162. 

 Heptameria stictostoma, Cke. Syn. 4952. 



Perithecia covered by the cuticle, causing little corresponding 

 prominences pierced by the ostiola, at length free, subconical. Asci 

 oblong. Sporidia biseriate, cymbiform, 5-septate, constricted at tho 

 <rpta, 20 IJL long. 



On some herbaceous plant, Connecticut. 



L. stictoides. (B. & C.) 



Sphceria stictoides, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 149, 

 Leptosphezria stictoides, Sacc. Syll. 3171. 

 Heptameria stictoides, Cke. Syn. 4961. 



Forming little irregular, depressed spicules surrounded by the 

 cuticle. Sporidia nearly biconical, one division larger than the other. 



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5-septate, constricted at the middle septum. No measurements given. 

 On Liriodendron, North Carolina. 



L. Vahlii, Rostr. Fungi Gronl. p. 557 (No. 162). 



Hyphae pale brown, with short, inflated joints. Perithecia de- 

 pressed-spherical, umbilicate, papillate. Asci numerous, elongated- 

 clavate, long-pedicellate, 90-100 x 11-13 /JL, with copious, filiform par- 

 aphyses. Sporidia biseriate, cymbiform-fusoid, dark, 5-septate, 20-25 

 x 6-7 /jt, cells 1-2-nucleate. 



On dry stems of Melandrium triftorum, collected by Vahl, at 

 Uinanak, Greenland. 



L. striata, Winter, Hedwigia 1872, p. 140. 



Perithecia membranaceous, globose, with a small ostiolum, some- 

 what wrinkled, brown. Asci elongated-oblong, sessile, 8-spored, 90 x 

 12 /y., with simple, filiform paraphyses longer than the asci. Sporidia, 

 fusoid, 5-septate, each cell with a large oil globule,, greenish, the epis- 

 pore marked with longitudinal stripes, 35 x 5 IJL. 



On stems of Veronica alpina, Greenland. 



L. Boccouia^, (C. & E.) 



Sphceria Bocconicz, C. & E. Grev. VII, p. 10. 

 Leptosphceria Bocconiez, Sacc. Sj^ll. 2901. 

 Heptameria Bocconicz, Cke. Syn. 4703. 

 Exsicc. EH. N. A. F. 586. 



Perithecia scattered, buried and, when the epidermis fails away. 

 \vith the rounded apex projecting, membranaceous, subglobose, brown- 

 ish-black. Asci clavate, 75 x 12 //, paraph} sate. Sporidia biseriate, 



