510 



center, and there united in an erunipent disk. Asei raceinose-fascicu- 

 late, with a short !>ut slender base, p. sp. about 18-20x4 /^, 8-spored. 

 Paraphyses very long, lanceolate, evaneseent. Spnridia allantoid, not 

 strongly curved, 4-5 x | //. 



On dead linil)S of Ilex opaca, Newlield, N. J. 



The epidermis is ruptured and pustuliform-elevated, and when 

 this is stripped off. the clusters of perithecia are exposed, seated on the 

 surface of the inner hark. The surface of the wood beneath the clus- 

 ters is marked with a slight circumscribing line. 



Cal. alnicola, E. & E. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phil. July, 1890, p. 

 221. 



Subcuticular. Perithecia scattered, subglobose, | mm. diam., 

 roughish, seated on the surface of the inner hark, at length slightly 

 collapsed above. Ostiola short-cylindrical, slightly raising and barely 

 perforating the epidermis. Asci racemose-fasciculate, clavate-oblong, 

 20-22 x 3 J-4 /A, 8-spored, the upper end of the spore-mass truncate, 

 and surmounted by the empty, transparent, dome-shaped apex of the 

 asci. Sporidia crowded-biseriate, allantoid, curved, 5-6 x 1 p. When 

 the epidermis is peeled off, the perithecia either adhere to it or remain 

 attached to the surface of the inner bark, in which respect this differs 

 from C 1 ryptosphc&ria secreta, C. <fc E., in which the perithecia always 

 adhere to the epidermis. This latter species also has longer, distinctly 

 clavate asci, with a long, slender base, and longer sporidia, and is, we 

 believe, specifically distinct from the species on alder, though much 

 resembling it. 



On dead alder, Newfield, N. J. 



Cal. fagieola, (E. & E.) 



Valsafagicola, E. & E. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, X, p. iiS. 



Perithecia 10-15, globose, membranaceous, black and shining in- 

 side, circinating in the surface of the inner bark, and covered with a 

 dirty yellow powder, collapsing more or less when dry, abruptly con- 

 tracted into slender necks J-J mm. long, decumbent and converging 

 to the center, with their ostiola erumpent' in a small, black, slightly 

 elevated disk, obtusely conical, at length with a rather broad, irregular 

 opening. Asci (p. sp.) 1 8-20 x 3 t u, racemose-fasciculate, 8-spored, at 

 first with a rounded, hyaline apex which soon disappears, leaving 

 them truncate above. Sporidia biseriate, allantoid, hyaline, curved, 

 2J-31 x |-i ft. 



On dead limbs of Fagus feri'ityinea, West Chester, Pa. (Ever- 

 hart & Haines). 



