411 



Perithecia gregarious, covered by the blackened cuticle which is 

 slightly raised, but not fissured. Asci cylindrical, 75 x 5 //.. Sporidia 

 uniseriate. oblong-elliptical, brown. 3-septate. 12-16 x 4-4 // 1 18 x 4 // 

 Cke.) 



On dead canes of black and red raspberry, and on dead limbs of 

 Sass;ifra<. Newfield, N. J. 



LINOSPORA. Fckl. 



Symb. p. 123. 



Perithecia appearing late in the season, buried in the shield - 

 shaped, black, phyllogenous pseudostroma (which is sometimes want- 

 ing), generally solitary, beak subprominent, black, more or less elon- 

 gated. Asci cylindrical, 8-spored. Sporidia filiform, lyini> parallel 

 in the asci, hyaline or yellowish-hyaline. 



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L. conflicta, (Cke.) 



Sphceria conflicta, Cke. Grev. VII, p. 13. 

 Linospora conflicta, Sacc. Syll. 4095, Cke. Syn. 584!. 

 Exsicc. Rab. F. E. 3759- 



Spots amphigenous, pale reddish-brown, definitely limited by a 

 narrow, darker border, suborbicular. 2-4 mm. diam.. or often larger 

 i 1-2 cm. i. with an irregular, subsinuous outline. Perithecia buried in 

 the parenchyma of the leaf, globose, about 150 u. diam., with a papilli- 

 Ibrm ostiolum, the apex slightly enimpent and rupturing the epidermis 

 in an opereidoid manner. Asci oblong-cylindrical, sessile. 8-spored. 

 aparaphysate, 75-^85 x 12 jK. Sporidia subfasciculate. four alove and 

 four below, clavate-cylindrical. 40-45 x2|-3 /MfiO // long. Cke.). 

 -3-6-sei)tate. vellou ish-hvaline. 



k V 



( )n lea\cs of Querous densijJora, Tamalpais. California (Hart 



i less). 



The description is drawn from specc. sent by hr. liarkm 1 ^. 



L. terrnginea, E. & 31. Am. Nat, Dec, 1884, p. CJ'.i. 



Sitots light yellowish-brown, border darker, narrow and slii-htl\ 



XT * 



raised. H-2 mm. diam. Perithecia black. suba;lobose, !")(> n diam.. 



* 



immersed and covered by the blackened cuticle which is perforated 



by the scarcely prominent ostiolum. Asci cylindrical. 75-SOxT //. 

 . ... < 



-essile or nearly so. with abundant filiform paraphyses, S-sjtoi-eil. 

 Sporidia yei'iniform, yellowish, faintly nuch'ate. acute at each end, 

 35-45 x 1 1 p. 



On leaves of Andromeda f err uginea, Florida (Dr. Martini- 



