588 



D. Sassafras, E. & E. (in fieri g 



Stromsita cortical, gregarious and subconfluent, small (1-2 nun.; 

 pustuliform, covered by the blackened epidermis, surrounded by a 

 faint circumscribing line which does not .penetrate the wood. Peri- 

 ihccia (5-15 in a stroina, ovate-globose, J-J mm. diam., contents soft 

 and gelatinous when young, crowded, with very little stromatic 

 material between and over them, necks short and thick. Ostiola 

 coarse, depressed-hemispherical, black, obscurely stellate-cleft, and 

 irregularly dehiscent. Asci clavate-oblong, stipitate, 100-110 (p. sp. 

 75-80) x 10 ,; paraphyses? Sporidia numerous, allantoid, yellow in 

 the mass, not strongly curved, 6-7 x 1 J-2 tj.. 



On dead limbs of Sassafras, Newfiekl, N. J. 



The outside appearance is almost exactly that of Valsaria nigro- 

 facta, C. & E. 



D. herbacea, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. Ill, p. 142. 



Stroma tuberculiform, 1-2 mm. diani., white inside, tinged with 

 yellow above, but black externally. Perithecia ovate^globose, about 

 J mm. diam., rather abruptly contracted above into a short, narrow 

 neck, expanded at the surface of the stronia into a broad, obtuse, 

 quadrisulcate ostiolum. Asci, including the slender base, 100-120 x 

 10-12 /JL: paraphyses soon disappearing. Sporidia crowded in the 

 upper half of the asci, numerous, pale yellowish, cylindrical, curved, 

 7-8 x 1-1 I*.. On the same stems was a Calosphceria with 

 scattered or subseriate, beaked perithecia having fasciculate asci about 

 20 x 3J-4 //, truncate above, and sporidia 3J-4J x | /JL. 



On dead herbaceous stems (Ambrosia trifida?}, Louisiana (Lang- 

 lois). 



D. ranmlaris, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. 1. e. 



Stroma tuberculiform, 1-2 mm. diam., bursting out through longi- 

 tudinal cracks in the bark, penetrating to the wood, which is marked 

 with a black, circumscribing line, subtruncate above, dirty-white with- 

 in. Perithecia 4-1 2 in each stroma, globose, with short necks, walls 

 thick and coriaceous. Ostiola only slightly prominent, flat, 4-5-stellate- 

 cleft, finally broadly perforated. Asci broad, clavate, 90-110x12- 

 15 p.. Sporidia many, allantoid, yellowish, moderately curved. G-lOx 

 \ p. 



On dead branches of L/onieera. Japonica, Pointe a la Hacln 1 . 

 La. (Langiois). 



