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1539. Sphceria monstrosa, Schw. Gregarious, seated on a 

 black, woody crust, rather large, sometimes very large and deformed, 

 swollen at the base, narrowed above into a thick, sulcate, pyramidal 

 ostiohim. Substance carbonaceous. Covered entirely, even the 

 ostiolum, with a dense coat of brown, subrigid hairs. Has some 

 resemblance to some forms of Eutypa spinosa; occasionally denuded. 



On chestnut wood, Bethlehem, Pa. 



Pertusce. 



1587. Sphceria indinata, Schw. Scattered or aggregated, 

 erumpent through the fibers of the lower stratum of the bark where 

 the epidermis has fallen away, at first immersed, then exposed. Peri- 

 thecia ovate-globose, minute, obliquely inclined, with the ostiolum 

 comparatively large and finally deciduous; then the perithecia are 

 simply perforated, black and rugose. 



On twigs of Viburnum, Bethlehem, Pa. (Schw.). 



1589. Sphceria glandicola, Schw. This (sec. Cke. Grev. XVI. 

 p. 91) is a Phoma with sporules 5x3 p., basidia 20 x 3 p. 



1590. Sphceria pericarpii, Schw., and 



1583. Sphceria Surculi. Fr., are also (sec. Cke. 1. c.) only species 

 of Phoma. 



1591. Sphceria tingens, Schw. (not Lophidium tingens, Ell.) 

 Scattered, conically beaked, at first immersed, then adnate with a 

 flattened base. Perithecia compressed-conical, scarcely rugose, ros- 

 trate, with a thick, deformed, subshining ostiolum. The bark is 

 blackened around the perithecia. 



In cracks of the bark on young branches of Sassafras, Bethlehem. 

 Pa. (Schw.). 



1595. Sphceria elliptica, Schw. Rather large, elliptical, elon- 

 gated, scattered, only slightly elevated, flattened, base subimmersed, 

 black, at length perforated with a central pore, at first crowned with 

 a papilliforin ostiolum which is finally deciduous. 



On Viburnum, Mauch Chunk, Pa. (Schw.). 



1596. Sphceria deformata, Schw. Widely scattered, minute, 

 protruding and denuded, of an irregular-cylindrical shape, very black, 

 surface subrugose and uneven; ostiolum indistinct. At length per- 

 forated. With the preceding species. 



