519 



The measurements of Winter and Rehm, both from Fiickel's specc., 

 show quite a variation. Sec. Dr. Rehrn the Delaware specc. differ 

 from his specimen from Fiickel, in their smaller and less crowded peri- 

 thecia. 



V. papyrifer?e, (Schw.) 



Spheeria papyriferee, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1375. 

 Vdlsapapyrifercc, Cke. Syn. 1668. 



Gregariously surrounding the branches, and strongly raisins: the 



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epidermis, which is stellately ruptured, revealing the pustules with 

 their black, rough, truncate disks protruding; the short, irregular- 

 shaped. umbilicate ostiola at length emerging. Perithecia few, rather 

 large, globose, enclosed in a milk-white stroma, with a black exterior. 

 The small, prominent pustules roughen the branch. 



On branches of JMbrus papyrifera, Bethlehem, Pa. (Schw.). 



Placed by Cooke in his subgenus Valsella. 



EXDOXYLA, Fckl. 



Symbolze, Nachtr. I, p. 33. 



Stroma none. Porithecia buried in the wood, scattered or 

 crowded, Avith the laruv. sphaiToid or pezizoid ostiola erumpent. As-i 

 narrow clavate-cylindrical, 8-sporod, with abundant, filiform paraphyscs. 

 Sporidia unisrriatc, or biscriati 1 above, cylindrical or 1- or 

 tate. Xvloo'enous or corticolous. 



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is included as a 



' T Sporidia continuous. 







E. macrostoma, Fckl. Symbols, Xachtr. I, p. 322. 



Perithecia scattered or crowded in irregular groups, entirely 

 buried in the wood, without any visible stroma. about J mm. diam.. 

 abruptly narrowed above into a stout, straight neck, about as long as 

 the diameter of the perithecium, the swollen apex subgiobose-enlarged 

 to nearly or quite the diameter of the perithecium itself, and semi- 

 erumpent; papilliform at first, then perforated with a round opening. 

 Asci clavate-cylindrical. 80-110x6-7 /j. (p. sp. about 60 p. long), sur- 

 rounded with abundant, filiform paraphyses. Sporidia 8 in an ascus. 

 overlapping-uniseriate or subbiseriate above, oblong-cylindrical, ob- 

 scurely 2-nuclcate, olive-brown, straight or very slightly curved, 8-11 

 x 3-3| /n. 



On decorticated, half-rotten limbs of oak and laurel 

 Xewfield, X. J. 



