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sphceria) with a more or less distinct cap of black, carbonaceous 

 matter which is irregularly ruptured by the emergent ostiolum. 



On a decaying log of Platanus occWrutuUx, Flatbush, Long 

 Island, N. Y. (Zabriskie). 



31. Arabidis, Johans. Svamp. Island, p. 169, tab. XXIX, fi<r. 11. 



Perithecia scattered or gregarious, depressed-spherical, black or 

 cinereous-black, pierced with a round pore above, 180-200 a diain. 

 Asci cylindric-clavate, short-pedicellate, paraphysate, 8-spored, 54-60 x 

 8-10 IJL. Sporidia biseriate, cylindric-fusoid, hyaline, 3-septate, not con- 

 stricted, second cell scarcely or only slightly enlarged, straight or 

 curved, 22-28 x4-5 p. 



On leaves of Arabis alpina, Kerortusok, Greenland. 



The Greenland specc. have asci 75-90 x 10 t u, sporidia 25-28 x 

 3-4 IJL. 



31. Cassiopes, Rostr. Fungi Gronl. p. 561 (No. 181). 



Perithecia scattered, seiniimmersed. Asci cylindric-clavate, 37- 

 40x10 //, paraphysate, 8-spored. Sporidia biseriate, fusoid-oblong, 

 obtuse, 3-septate, hyaline, 12-15x5 p. 



On dry leaves of Cassiope tetragona, Isortok Kingua, Groenland. 



31. anisomctra, (Cke.& Hark.) 



Sphczria anisometra, Cke. & Hark. Grev. IX, p. 86. 

 Mftasphceria anisometra, Sacc. Syll. II. p. 163. 

 Endophhea anisometra* Cke. Grev. XVII, p. 89. 

 Exsicc. Ell. N. A. F. 890. 







Perithecia evenly and thickly scattered, erumpent, minute (150 n\> 

 subglobose, black, rough, with a papilliform ostiolum soon perforated. 

 Asci oblorig-clavate, sessile, 70-75 x 12 p., with abundant paraphyses. 

 Sporidia lanceolate, 1-4-septate, hyaline, ends acute while lying in the 

 asci, obtuse when free, 19-22 x 4-5 /JL (26 x 8 PL, Cooke). The mature 

 sporidia are slightly olivaceous and constricted above the middle. In 

 the specc. distributed in N. A. F. the sporidia are mostly less than 5 // 

 thick. 



On twigs of Mimulus glutinosus, Lonicera. Cupressus, Et'<i- 

 lyptus. Rubus. Dracaena, and on pods of Robin-ia, California. 



31. suhciitanea, (E. & E.) 



Sphtzria subcutanea, C. &. E. Grev. VII, p. 41. 



ria subcutanea, Sacc. Syll. II, p. 167, Cke. Syn. 4163. 



Perithecia scattered, semierumpent, ovate-globose, black, thin 



