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which make up the greater number, there is a single longitudinal 



septum and no constrictions. 



On small, dead limbs, Bethlehem, Pa., Schw. 



Amphisphseria nobilis (Schw.). 



Sphceria nobilis Schw. in Herb. Schw. 



Perithecia superficial, ovate- globose, black, 350-400," diam., 

 glabrous, with an acutely papilliform ostiolum. Asci clavate- 

 cylindrical, short- sti pi tate, paraphysate, 75-80x12-15,", 8-spored. 

 Sporidia crowded-biseriate, obloug-fusoid, slightly curved, obtuse, 

 brown, uniseptate, scarcely constricted, each cell with a large nucleus, 

 18-22 x 6-7/;. 



The base of the perithecia is only slightly sunk in the surface of 

 the wood, but there is nothing to indicate that they ever become 

 movable. 



On rotten wood, Salem, N. C. (Schw.). 



Lophiostoma tingens (Schw.). 



Sphceria tingens Schw., Syn. N. Am., 1,591. 



Perithecia entirely buried in the wood, ovate-globose, about \ mm. 

 diam., subcompressed, neck flattened with the obtusely conical, sub- 

 tubercular, stout; ostiolum erumpent and only slightly compressed. 

 Asci clavate- cylindrical, short- sti pitate, 110-120 x 15-18//, 8-spored, 

 with abundant, filiform paraphyses. Sporidia biseriate or oblique, 

 broad-fusoid, hyaline, becoming brownish, 4-6- (mostly 5-) septate, 

 22-30 x 6-7,«. 



On decorticated, weather-beaten wood of Sassafras, Bethlehem, 

 Pa. 



This, of course, is very different from Lophidium tingens (Ell.), 

 in N. A. P., p. 235. 



Lophiostoma Spireeae (Schw.). 



Sphceria Spircece and Sphceria crenata Schw. in Herb. Schw. 

 Sphceria crenata Pers., var. Spircece Schw., Syn. N. Am., 1,599. 

 Lophiostoma Spircece Pk. 28th Eep., p. 76. 



The diagnosis of Lophiostoma Spiraea, as given in N. Am. Pyr., 

 p. 232, fits the Schweinitzian specimen exactly. 



Sec. Schw. ; very common on dead branches of Spiraioz opulifolia, 

 Bethlehem, Pa., and Salem, N. C. 



Calosphaeria assecla (Schw.). 



Sphceria assecla Schw., Syn. N. Am., 1,622. 

 Valsa pulchelloidea C. & E., Grev., VI, p. 92. 



The diagnosis of Calosphaeria pulchelloidea fits the Schweinitzian 

 specimen of Sphceria assecla Schw. perfectly. Valsa microtheca, C. 

 & E., 1. c, is hardly more than a scattered, dwarf form. 



