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IVct', 120-130 (JL cliaiu., globose, obtusely papillate, collapsing- in the 

 center, nm ruinate, coriaceo-membranaceous, black. Asci large, oblong, 

 S-spored, 68-76x10-12 //. short-stipitate, obtusely flattened at the 

 apex, with scanty, filiform paraphyses. Sporidia biseriate, oblong or 

 fusoid-oblong, 3-septate and constricted at the septa, 18-20x4 //, endn 

 obtuse, nucleus subolivaceous. 



On dry leaves of Heeler a Helix. 



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This is credited to North America by Saccardo iii Svll. 1. c. 



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M* hedersefolia, (Cke.) 



Sphcsna hedercz folia, Cke. Grev. XI, p. no. 

 Metasphceria hederczfolia, Sacc. Syll. 6148. 

 Exsicc. Rav. F. Am. 683. KH. N. A. F. 699. 



Foliicolous, gregarious. Perithecia globose, semiimmersed, black* 

 Asci clavate. Sporidia elliptic-lanceolate, or clayate, triseptate, hya- 

 line, 20 x 8 IJL. 



On leaves of Hedera Helix, Aiken, South Carolina (Ravenel). 



Tliis appears to (lifter from the preceding species in its narrower 

 Sporidia. 



M. complanata, (Tode). 



Sphceria complanata, Tode Meckl. fig. 88, and Ft. S. M. II, p. 508. 



Leptosphtzria complanata, De Not. Schema, p. 62. 



Metasphccria complanata, Sacc. Syll. II, p. 161, and Cke. Syn. 4454. 



Perithecia scattered, subgiobose, black, soon collapsing and flat- 

 tened. Ostiolum papilliform, persistent. Asci cylindrical. Sporidia 

 1-2-seriate, subfusoid, curved, 4-celled, second cell subinflated, 30 x 

 5 , hyaline or greenish-hyaline. 



On dead herbaceous steins, South Carolina and Virginia. 



M. acinim, (Cke. & Hark.) 



Spluzria acuum, Cke. & Hark. Grev. IX, p. 86. 

 Metasphceria acuum, Sacc. Syll. 3459, Cke. Syn. 5786. 



Perithecia black, scarcely papillate, erumpent, hemispherical, sub- 

 prominent. Asci clavate. Sporidia biseriate, sublanceolate, rounded 

 at the ends, constricted in the middle, 1-3-septate, sometimes quadri- 

 nucleate, hyaline, 23-24 x 6 tt. 



On fir leaves. 



Closely allied to M. antxometra, (C. & H.) 



M. sqamata, (C. & E.) 



Sphczria squamata, C. & E. Grev. VII, p. 10. 

 Metasphferia squamata, Sacc. Syll. 3445. 

 Endophlaea squamata, Cke. Syn. 4158. 



