443 

 D. decipieiis, Sacc. F. Ten. Ser. IT, p. 6. 



Exsicc. Kze. F. Sel. 350. Thum. M. U. 469. M. March, 984. Rab. F. E. 2421, 



Peritliecia 5-15 in a pustule, circinating in a sulphur-yellow 

 stroina formed of the altered substance of the bark, depressed-globose, 

 i mm. or a little more in diam., contracted into slender, convergent 



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necks, with their papilliform, minute, black ostiola erumpent mostly 

 around the margin of a small, flat, circular, yellowish disk which 

 pierces the epidermis, but scarcely rises above it. Asci (p. sp.) 70-75 

 x 12-15 //, 8-spored Sporidia biseriate, fusoid-oblong, uniseptate, 

 each cell nucleate, hyaline. 15-20 x5-7 /, with an obscure apiculus at 

 each end. 



On bark of dead Carpinus, London, Canada (Dearness), 



The yellow color of the stroma is sometimes very distinct, and 

 again scarcely perceptible. It is doubtful whether this is more than a 

 form of D. sulphureck, FckL 



D, Hystrix, (Tode). 



Sphczria Hystrix , Tode Fungi Meckl. II, p. 53, tab. XVI, fig. 12-. 

 Diaporthe Hystrix, Sacc. F. Ven. IV. p. 6. 

 Exsicc. Roum. F. Gall. 76. EH. N. A. F. 89? 



Peritliecia collected in valsoid groups lightly covered by the 

 pustulate, superficial layer of the inner bark, ovate-globose, 12-20 in 

 a stroma. Ostiola erumpent together, but not confluent, about J mm> 

 long, obtusely pointed and mostly smooth at the apex, black and 

 brittle. Asci subfusoid, 8-spored, p. sp, 40-45x8-9 ,. Sporidia 

 inordinate or subbiseriate, cylmdric-fusoid. verv sliu'htlv curved, uni- 



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septate and slightly constricted in the middle, with a short appendage 

 at each end, hyaline, 10x3 u. 



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On bark of Acer rubruin. Newfield, N. J. 



The specc. in N. A. F. are in poor condition and uncertain, but 

 probably this species, 



D. glyptica, (Berk. & Currey.) 



Valsa glyptica, Berk. & Currey, Grev. IV, p. loo. 

 DJaportke glyptica, B. & Curr. Sacc. Syll. 2433, Cke. Syn. 2026. 



"Quite covered by the bark, which is 'merely pierced by the osti- 

 ola, surrounded more or less evidently by a black line. Sporidia fusi- 

 form, sometimes signioid, uniseptate, 4550 , long. 7 '" 



On willow. South Carolina (Berk.) 



Cooke, in the Talsei of the U. S., doubts whether this is distinct 

 from D. tessera, (Fr.), as the slight appendages may have been over- 

 looked. 



