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H-ptate, exceptionally 8-scptatc. The perithecia occur both on decor- 

 ticated limbs and on those still covered with the bark, but in the latter 

 case, the bark is old and somewhat decayed. 



On dead willow limbs, near Huron, Dakota, autumn. 1885 (Miss 

 NYllie E. Crouch). 



L. Macliirae, E. & E. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. July, 1890, p. 236. 



Spots as in Sphc&rella Maclurce, E. & E. (which occurs on the 

 same leaves), suborbicular, reddish-brown, 4-10 mm. diam.. with a 

 darker margin and deciduous center. Perithecia mostly hypophyllous, 

 innate-erumpent, small (75 ), black. Asci oblong-cylindrical, 50-60 

 x 8-10 p. Paraphyses? Sporidia biseriate, fusoid, about 6-nucleate. 

 becoming 5-septate, slightly curved, nearly hyaline, 20-22 x 3 p.. 



On leaves of Madura aurantiaca, Saline Co., Mo. (Demetrio). 



L. pnteana, E. & K. (in Herb.) 



Perithecia gregarious, erumpent-superficial, subglobose or de- 

 pressed-globose, about 200 p. diam., black, glabrous, broadly perforated 

 above, rough. Asci subcylindrical, short-stipitate, rounded above, 

 about 75x15-18 //., paraphysate. Sporidia crowded, sometimes- 

 oblique, oblong-fusoid, 6-8-septate, sometimes a little curved, dark 

 brown, 20-27 x 6-8 /*. 



On the inside and outside of an oaken well-bucket, Manhattan, 

 Kansas (May Varney). 



B. On monocotyledonous plant*. 

 * Sporidia ^-septate. 



L. sabali^era, (B. & ( 



Sphceria sabaligera, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 147. 

 Clypcosphtzria sabaligera, Sacc. 83'!!. 3193. 

 Leptosphtzria sabaligera, Cke. Syn. 4310. 



Perithecia scattered, minute, covered by the blackened cuticle 

 \vhich is slightly raised. Asci (p. sp.) oblong, 40-50 x 7-9 /JL. Spo- 

 ridia biseriate, fusiform, slightly curved, 3-septate, straw-yellow, some- 

 times constricted at the septa, 15-22x4-5 p. (25 a longv sec. Berk.), 



On leaves of Salmi, Louisiana (Langlois). 



L. sabalicola, (E. & M.) 



Sphceria sabalicola, E. & M. Am. Nat. 1882, p. Sio. 

 Leptosphtzria sabalicola, Sacc. Syll. 6135. 

 , Kxsicc. EH- & Evrht. N. A. F. 2d Ser. 1963. 



Perithecia gregarious or scattered, with rather thick, coriaceous 

 walls, about J mm. diam., covered by the epidermis, which is raised. 



