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On dead limbs of Laris, Europwa, Xewfield, X. J., and on 

 Pinus, Xew York and Xew England (Cke. Yalsei of the T. S. Xn. 

 25). The spermogonia are like the nsciLrernus stroma, only instead of 

 the black disk formed by the tips of the crowded ostiola, they arc 

 capped by a tubercular-papilla which is at length pierced with a small 

 round opening, whitish-gray at first, finally darker. Spermatia 4x 1 //. 

 issuing in yellow cirrhi. 







The Xewfield spccc. agree perfectly with the European, only the 

 spermatia are about twice as long. Dr. Winter who examined the 

 spccc. was of the opinion that the spermogonia did not belong to the 

 F'/te. but they are certainly very intimately associated. This species 

 is distinguished from F. Abivtix and F. cen/'sia bv its larger hemi- 



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spherical stromata and more numerous perithecia, but the three niv 

 closely allied. 



V. Abietis, (Fr.) 



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Sph&ri, I-'r. in Kze. cs: Schm. Mycol. Hefte. II, p. 47. 



Sph&ria pinasti i, Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. tab. 50. 

 Vaha Abictis, Fr. Summa, p. 412. 



Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 606. Rab. F. E- 2324, 3554. Ell. N. A. F. 174. Cke. F. Brit. 2d Ser. 

 484. Rehm Asc. 776. Krieger F. Sax. 



Stromata irregularly scattered, depressed-conoid, small, covered 

 by the subpustulate-elevated epidermis, which is pierced by the dense 

 fascicle of short, or sometimes elongated-cylindrical ostiola. which nre 

 globose, smooth, black and densely crowded. Perithecia 5-15 in ;i 

 stroma, small, globose or angular from pressure, with very short neck-, 

 buried in the unaltered substance of the bark. Asci narrow-clavate. 

 sessile, -o-32 x 5-6 //. Sporidia irregularly crowded, allantoid, slightly 

 curved, hyaline, 6-9 x 1^-1 J . Spermogonia in stromata similar to 

 the ascigerous ones, multilocular. narrowed above and ermnpent, with 

 a light-colored disk pierced by a single pore (rarely by several). Sper- 

 matia. slender, 3x1 n. 



On dead limbs of Pinus rigida and Cupressus thyoides, Xew 

 Jersey, on Abies and Thuja, in Canada and probably in other parts 

 of the country. 



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V. eenisia. De Not. Sferiac. Ital. p. 38, tab. 44. 



Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 2139. Thum. M. U. 571. Ell. N. A. F. 177. 



Stroma conic-truncate or depressed-hemispherical, covered by the 

 adherent epidermis, of a dark brown color, 1-2 mm. broad. Perithecia 

 2-20 in a stroma, subspherical or angular from mutual pressure, 

 densely crowded, with short necks and ostiola erumpent in a flat disk 

 or separate, short or subelongated, subcylinclrical, rather stout, round- 



