BOTANICAL GAZETTE. jj 



submitted, may be sent with packages of botanical specimens without 

 subjecting them to a higher rate of postage. 



James H. Mark, 

 For Fiist Asst P. M. General. 



flora.— W. W. Bailev. 



New Species OF Fungi, by Chas. H. Peck -Stemomtis Mor- 

 gani.— Plants crowded, growing from a well-developed hypothallus 

 one-half lo two thirds of an inch high; sporangia cylindrical, three or 

 foui times the length of the stem; stem black, shining, prolonged as 

 a columella nearly to the apex of the sporangium; meshes of the cap 

 illuium very large, the knots sometimes thickened and subtriangular 

 spores violet-brown, globose, .0003 of an inch in diameter with a 

 slight ferruginous tint in the mass. ' 



Decaying vegetable matter. Ohio. A. P. Morgan. Pennsylvania. 

 IV. Barbeck. 



Ext-rnally this species closely resembles S. /usca, from which it 

 seems necessary to separate it because of its paler slightly ferruginou- 

 tinied spores and the very large surface meshes of its capillitium The 

 spores are larger and in the mass considerably darker than those of 

 o. ferniginca. 



CoNiOTHYRiUM MiNUTULUM. - Perithecia minute, .0045- ooss of 

 an inch broad, scattered, subglobose or depressed, black- spores mi 

 nute, oblong-ovate or elliptical, colorless, .00015- 00016' of an inch 

 long, about .ooooS of an inch broad. 



Whitened decorticated surface of h;;rd wood. Vermont. C G 



Pringle, 



The perithecia are so minute that ihey are scarcely visible to the 

 naked eye. The upper part of the perithecium ruptures irregularly 

 and at length falls away leaving the lower part sunk in the matrix 



This and the other Vermont species here described were collected 

 by Mr. Pringle, but communicated to me by Mr. C. J. Sprague 



LEPTOTHyRiUM CHRoMospERMUM.— Soots none; perithecia amphi- 

 genous, scattered, orbicular, membranous, easily separating from the 

 matrix, wrinkled when dry, black, about .015 of an inch broad; spores 

 numerous, regular, elliptical, colored, .00045-.00055 of an inch long 

 •00035-.0004 of an inch broad. 



Living rose leaves. Ohio. T. Try/or. 



The perithecia are easily scraped from the leaf by the blade of a 

 pen-knife. The base is margined by a thin color.'ess membrane which 

 comes off with the perithecia The spores in the mass have a pale 

 yellowish-brown color. 



Phoma albistrata.— Perithecia minute, .007-.008 of an inch 

 broad, seated on a thin whitish crustaceous stratum, scattered conical 

 or subglobose, nearly free, easily separated from the matrix, black- 



