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clavate-cylindrical, 75-80 x5/i, with a slender stipe-like base' 

 mostly curved, with filiform paraphyses. Sporidia overlapping uni- 

 seriate or biseriate, fusoid-oblong, curved, becoming 1-3-septate, 10- 

 15 (exceptionally 20) x 2j-3m. 



This agrees well with the description of H. pa/lescens, but its 

 smaller size, acutely margined, more distinctly stipitate pruinose 

 cups, and its sporidia often 3-septate seem to separate it from that 

 species. 



Phialea dearnessii E. & E. 



On dead stems of Mouarda, London, Canada. May, 1890. (Dear- 

 ness, No. 1,713.) 



Erumpent, scattered, substipitate, nearly sulphur yellow. Ascom- 

 ata about | mm. diam., subolivaceous at first, becoming yellow, sub- 

 striate, margin subfimbriate, at first incurved then erect, stipe short, 

 less than diameter of the disk, stout. Asci clavate-cylindrical, sub- 

 sessile, 75-80 x 10,"., with stout paraphyses scarcely thickened above. 

 Sporidia biseriate, fusoid, slightly curved, with two large nuclei, 30- 

 35 x Sfi, gradually attenuated to the slender subulate-pointed ends. 



Chlorosplenium salviicolor E. & E. 



On dead stems of Vitis vulpina, St. Martiuville, La. March, 

 1889. (Langlois, No. 1,679.) 



Scattered, subhemispherical at first with the margin incurved, 

 soon expanding to nearly plane, H-2 mm. across, dark sage-green, 

 pruinose outside contracted below into a short stipitate base. Mar- 

 gin subincurved and subundulate when dry. Asci clavate-cylin- 

 drical, slender, sessile, 30 x 2$—3fi. Paraphyses branched above and 

 conidiiferous. Sporidia biseriate, oblong, minute, hyaline 3-4 x 1- 

 H/J-. Smaller throughout and of a duller shade of green than C. 

 ceruginescens Rehm, and does not stain the subjacent wood. 



Chlorosplenium canadense E. & E. 



In depressions in the rough bark of Tilia, and on the bare wood, 

 London, Canada. Oct., 1892. (Dearness, No. 2,032.) 



Ascomata cespitose or solitary, stipitate, 1-2 mm. diam., closed at 

 first, then open and umbilicate or concave, hymenium olive-black, 

 margin grayish and often subrepand orlobed. Stem 2-4 mm. long, 

 olivaceous, roughish under the lens, becoming black, clothed at base 

 with a light-olive tomentum composed of sparingly branched hairs, 

 and finally becoming black. Asci slender clavate, 130-150 x 8-10/>t, 



