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Amphisphseria atrograna, (C. & E.) Sacc. 

 Sacc. Syll. 1 : 722. d. 13 June 1882. 

 Ell. in Cat. PI. N. J. 518. 1889. 

 Ell. & Ev. Pyren. 201. d. May 1892. 



Sphaeria atrograna, C. & E. 

 C. & E. Grev. 8 : 15. d- Sept. 1879. 



Melanomma atrogranum, Cke. 

 Cke. Grev. 16: 52. Dec. 1887. 



Amphisphseria bisphserica, (C. & E.) Sacc. 



Sacc. Syll. 1 : 721. d. 13 June 1882. 



Cke. Grev. 16 : 89. March 1888. 



Ell. in Cat. PI. N. J. 518. 1889. 



Ell. & Ev. Pyren. 201. d. May 1892. 

 *E11. & Ev. Fung. Columb. 1318. May 1899. 

 Sphseria bisphaerica, C. & E. 



C. & E. Grev. 7 : 41- d. Dec. 1878. 

 *EI1. N. A. F. ni 9 . 1885. 



Amphisphseria botulispora, (Cke.) Sacc. 

 Sacc. Syll. 1 : 719. d. 13 June 1882. 

 Ell. & Ev. Pyren. 203. d. May 1892. 



Sphaeria botulispora, Cke.' 

 C. & E. Grev. 6 : 96. pi. 100, f. 31. March 1878. 

 Cke. Ann. N. Y. Acad. 1 : 186. d. May 1878. 

 Cke. Jour. Linn. Soc. 17: 143. d. 1880. 



Xylosphseria botulispora, Cke. 

 Cke. Grev. 17 : 86. June 1889. 



Amphisphseria earyophaga, Cke. 



See Trematosphaeria earyophaga, (S) Sacc. 



Amphisphseria eonferta, (S.) Sacc. 



Note. The Sphceria eonferta of Schweiniiz, Syn. Car. 187 was said by 

 Schweinitz to be the same as the Sphceria confertula, S. Am. Bor. 1508. 

 The Spheeria eonferta of S. Am. Bor. 1477 according to Ellis and to our own 

 examination of an original specimen is immature Sphcerella maculiformis, 

 (P.) Awd. 



With regard to Sphceria eonferta, S. Syn. Car. 187, the spores are said by 

 Cooke, Grev. 15: 81. d- March 1887 to be two-parted and on this authority 

 it forms the basis of Amphisphceria eonferta, (S.) Sacc. Starbaeck, 1894, 

 found no spores in Schweinitzian specimens but noted a marked resemblance 

 externally to Sphaeria euomphala, B. & C. Ellis in Proc. Phil. Acad. 1895 : 

 25 (6). 21 Feb. 1895 gives details of spores of Sphceria confertula from 

 Pennsylvania and expresses a doubt whether it is the same as the North Car- 

 olina specimens of that name. 



We have examined a specimen of 5. confertula (S. eonferta, S Syn. Car.) 

 from Carolina and the external resemblance to 6". euomphala is marked, as 

 stated by Starbaeck but the spores do not agree either with those described 

 by Cooke or with those described by Ellis. Two kinds of spores were seen ; 

 one dark-colored, elliptic, 8-9 /', by 2.8 /', filling the perithecium but no 

 asci were seen and in one case slender, clavate asci 84 // long by 7 u broad 

 with hyaline acicular spores 14-16 ft by 2.8 /i, 6- to 8-guttulate but not 

 clearly septate. 



From the above it will be seen that it is hopeless to expect to be able to 

 recognize what Schweinitz understood by S. eonferta and S. confertula. We 

 have given below the synonomy based on Cooke's notes on the spores but 

 we do not believe that the species is an Amphisphceria nor that any one at the 

 present day can say to what genus it belongs. It should be placed perma- 

 nently under species ignota. 



