533 



On dead limbs of Fagusferruginea, Xew York State (fide Peck, 

 who finds the sporidia ovate or oblong-elliptical, hyaline. 18-24 p. long-). 



** Sporidia cylindrical, continuous or nucleate. (Eucryptospora). 

 Cr. sutfusa, (Fr.) 



Sphceria suffusa, Fr. S. M. II, p. 399. 

 Cryptospora suffusa, Fr. Sunima Veg. Sc. p. 412. 



Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 620, 1997. Kze. F. Sel. 142. Rab. F. E- 730, 1130, 2022. Rehm Asc. 

 46. Thum. M.U. 171. Sydcnv, M. March. 168. EH. & Evrht. N. A. F. 2d Ser. : 



Stromata scattered, raising the epidermis into flattish pustule?, hut 

 not discoloring it, 1-2J mm. broad. Perithecia 4-12, subcircinate. 

 depressed-globose or angular from crowding, collapsing when dry. 

 lying in the unaltered inner hark, with long, cylindrical, converging, 

 decumbent necks, united at their ends in a small, black, erumpent disk. 

 or sometimes a part or all of them remaining isolated. Asci oblong, 

 sessile, 8-spored, 70-100 x 22-30 a. Sporidia fasciculate or inter- 

 woven, cylindrical, obtuse, hyaline, 50-65 x 3J-4 p.. 



On dead alders, New York (Peck), Xew Jersey (Berk, in Grev. 

 IV, p. 101). 



Cr. Bettila, Tul. Sel. Carp. II, p. 149, tab. XVII, figs. 13-27. ' 



Exsicc. EH. & Evrht. N. A. F. 2d Ser. 1792. Roum. F. Gall. 3944. 



Peritliecia 6-10, globose, small, J mm. or a little over, circulate, 

 immersed in the surface of the unaltered inner hark, which is raised 

 into a slight pustule over them, necks convergent, decumbent, erum- 

 pent in rather prominent, punctiform, black ostiola, in the sea reel v 

 emergent, small, black disk just visible through short, transvcr-c- 

 cracks in the epidermis. Asci cylindric-clavate, attenuated below, p. 

 -p. 55-60x15-18 //, aparaphysate. Sporidia fasciculate, cylindrical, 

 suharciiate. obtuse, nucleate, hyaline, 30-40 x 3J-4 p. Coiiiclial stage 

 Cryptosporhi.ru Neesii, Cda. and (7. betulinum Sacc. Conidia 50 x 

 4|-5 //. shaped like the ascospores. 



On dead birch limbs, Plainfield, X. J. (Meschutt). 



The X. A. F. specc. do not show the conidia. 



Cr. Tilife, Tul. Sel. Carp. II, p. 151. 



Pustules irregularly scattered, orbicular, small, slightly prominent, 

 cortical, the erumpent disk about 1 mm. broad. Peritliecia 4-6, cir- 

 cinate, subglobose, necks short, decumbent, with subheniispherical 

 ostiola. Asci obovate, 65-80 x 13-16 ,, obtuse above, subacute below, 

 ^-spored. Sporidia fasciculate, straight, cylindrical, or sometimes sub- 

 clavate, 30-35 x 5-6 J p. 



