On dry >tenis ol (),>-t/r!<i digyna, Kgedesmindr. ( ; reenland. No 

 measurements ol'asei or sporidia given. 



L. Ranunculi, Rosti 1 . 1. c. 



Peritheria covered hy the epidermis, tlien denuded, depressed- 

 ulobose. Asei tliiek cylindric-clavate, 95-105 x 30-33 /vwith a rather 

 thick membrane, S-spored. Sporidia biseriate, oblong-elongated, 30- 

 35. \S-10 IL -5-septale, slightly constricted at the septa, the second cell 

 slightly enlarir<'d. yellow. 



On steins of Ranunculus uffjn't.^, Isortok. (Greenland. 



L. rubiciiiida, Relnn, Wint. Diag.. p. 10. Sacc. F. Ital. tab. 292. 



Exsicc. Rehm Asc. 92. 



Perithecia gregarious on a dark red spot, innate and at first cov- 

 ered. but finally ernmpent and partly free, brownish-black, globose. 

 collapsing and more or less flattened or even cup-shaped, 150-200 u 

 diam. Asci clavate-cylindrical, 45-65x6-7 //. short-stipitate, par- 

 aphysate. Sporidia subbiseriate, narrow-fnsoid, 3-septate. sliulitlv 

 curved, the second cell from the lower end slightly swollen when 

 mature, pale yellow, 22-25 x2|-3// (45x21-3 /;. Winter). 



On dead stems of PJiytolacca , Bethlehem, Pa. (Ran) and on dead 

 -tems Q$ Ambrosia, Louisiana (Langlois). 



L. Harknessiana, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. I, p. 91, (Plate 28) 



Perithecia scattered or gregarious, at h'rst covered l>y the epider- 

 mis, at length bare and superficial or nearly so. hemispherical, black, 

 smooth, J-J mm. in diameter. Ostiolum short-cylindrical, with a 

 large circular opening. Asci cylindrical, 100-114 x 10-12 //, 8-spored. 

 and surrounded with filiform paraphyses. Sporidia in a single series, 

 lying end to end, elliptical, yellow-brown, 4 septate and constricted at 

 the septa, 18-22 x 7-9 /*, obtusely pointed above and regularly 

 rounded below. The perithecia are much like those of JLeptosphceria 

 subconica, C. & P., but the ostiolumis shorter. 



On dead stems of "Columbo" (Frdxcra'!), Emery Co., Utah (S. J. 

 Harkness). 



L. distribiita, (('. & E.) 



ia dixhih/ita, (2 iS: E. Grev. VII, p. 41. 

 Leptospharia disti ihuta, Sacc. Sj'll. 2912. 

 Heptaineiia distiibiita, Cke. Syn. 4716. 



Perithecia scattered, covered by the blackened epidermis, which 

 is raised and pierced by the acutely papilliform ostiolum, mostly oblong 



