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tic, dark brown, about half of them prolonged upward into 

 a curved beak, I — \ as long as the body of the spore. 

 /* 15— 18 x t 9. 



On decorticated branches of Sambucus glauca. Blue 

 Canon, June. 3288. 



Lsestadia auripunctum. 



Hypophyllous, perithecia scattered, 5 — 20 in yellowish 

 orbicular spots 2 — 5 mm. broad, bordered by a dark brown 

 line; nucleus orange; asci8-spored, fusiform, long-stipitate; 

 sporidia hyaline, ovate or clavate, asci ^ 54 X 10 > spor- 

 idia 10 X 6. 



On living leaves of Quercus Wislizeni. Folsom, May. 



3243. 

 Laestadia caelata. 



Perithecia hypophyllous, entirely concealed, scattered; 

 asci mucoid, clavate, long-stipitate, /u 45 X 15; paraphyses 

 none; sporidia 8, hyaline, turbinate, shining; endochrome 

 divided very near the pointed end of the spore, m 12 X 6. 



On dead leaves of Quercus densiflora. Tamalpais, Jan. 



2968. 

 Phomatospora datiscae. 



Perithecia scattered, sub-epidermal; ostiolum conical; asci 

 S-spored, oblong, or ob-clavate. /* 50 — 60 X 15 — 20, para- 

 physes none; sporidia oblong-oval, hyaline or minutely 

 granular, with a small vacuole at each end, ^ 20 — 30 X 8 — 10. 



On dead stems of Datisca glomerata. Folsom, May. 



3231. 

 Physalospora bina. 



Epiphylous; shining black, hemispherical, half free, nu- 

 merous, discrete in irregular whitish spots, covering a third 

 or more of the leaf and bordered by a dark line ; paraphyses 

 mucoid, vacuolate ; ascus 2-spored, very delicate, fusiform, 

 attenuate to a slender pedicel, yu45 X 9; sporidia oblong- 

 elliptic or slightly boat-shaped, rounded at one end and 

 slightly pointed at the other, with several vacuoles, p. 15 X 6. 



On living leaves of Quercus agrifolia. Tamalpais, Jan. 



2966. 



