741 



Page 553. After Melogramma Bulliardi, insert- 

 31. spiniferuni, (Wallr.) 



Sphczria spinifera, Wallr. Crypt. Flora, No. 4073. 

 (Sphczria podoides, Pers. Syn. p. 22)? 

 Diatrype podoides, Fr. Sutnma Veg. Sc. p. 385. 

 Melogtamma asperum, Ces. & De Not, Schema, p. 30. 

 Melogramma spiniferuni, De Not, Sfer. Ital. p. 53. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 1000. Kze. F. Sel. 153. Thura. M. U. 1860. 



Stromata densely gregarious or subconfluent, erumpent-superficial, 

 swollen-pulvinate, black. Perithecia immersed, subglobose, with their 

 cylindrical, rough, subtortuous ostiola more or less projecting. Asci 

 eylindric-clavate, 8-spored, 160 x 16 /JL. Sporidia biseriate, cylindric- 

 fusoid, slightly curved, 55-70 x 7-8 p, 6-septate, cells fuliginous, 

 guttulate, the terminal ones shorter and subhynline. 



On beech bark, Carolina and Pennsylvania (Schw.). 



Page 563. After Valsaria Phoradendri, insert- 

 V. cornicola, E. & E. (in Herb.) 



Perithecia globose, minute (\ mm,), 4 8 loosely grouped in a cor- 

 tical stroma or gregarious without any distinct strorna, slightly raising 

 the epidermis, and when this falls away, slightly blackening the bark 

 above and around them, but without any circumscribing line. Ostiola 

 papilliform, minute. Asci cylindrical, short-stipitate, 65-75 x 7-8 //. 

 paraphvsate, 8-spored. Sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, uniseptate and 

 constricted, brown, 9-12x4|-5| [JL. 



On dead limbs of Cornus, London, Canada (Dearness). 



Page 564. After Valsaria Beauniontii, insert- 

 V. auserina, (Pers.) 



Sphceria anserina, Pers. Icon. p. 5, tab. I, figs. 8-10; Cke. Hndbk. No. 2637. 

 Valsaria anserina, Sacc. Syll. 2842. 



Stroma effused, blackening the surface of the wood or bark in 

 which it is immersed. Perithecia gregarious but separate, spheroid, 

 scarcely \ mm. diam., deeply or entirely immersed, black, with their 

 ostiola rising to the surface and raising it into pustules. Asci cylin- 

 drical, short-stipitate, 8-spored. Sporidia uniseriate, ovoid or sub- 

 oblong, didymous, slightly constricted at the septum, 1 6-20 x 6-7 a. 

 sometimes one cell a little narrower than the other. 



Bethlehem, Pa. (Schw.). Xo habitat given. 



Page 570. Add to synonyms of Diatrype albopruinosa- 

 Sphczria euphorea, Fr. S. M. II, p. 354 (sec. specc.in Herb. Sclnvj. 



