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 NEW KANSAS FUNGI. 



By J. B. Ellis and Elam Bartholomew. 

 (Concluded from Vol. IV, p. 4). 



Dothiorella concaviuscula. On dead branches of Frax- 

 inus viridis, Jan., 1895 (No. 1635). 



Stromata orbicular, ^ mm. diam., or by confluence 1 mm. 

 or more long, at first covered, but soon splitting and raising 

 the cuticle and exposing the iiat or slightly concave summit, 

 black outside, gray or horn-color within. In the smaller 

 orbicular form there is only a single sporigerous nucleus, 

 but on the elongated forms there are 2-4, a little lighter than 

 the surrounding substance of the stroma, but otherwise 

 scarcely distinguishable from it, Sporules oblong or oblong- 

 elliptical, hyaline, continuous, 4-6x2^-3/^. 



Dothiorella Negundinis. On bark of dead limbs of 

 Negundo aceroides, Aug., 1894 (No. 1558). 



Perithecia minute (100-110// diam.) perforated above, 

 erumpent in crowded, flattened groups, 1-1^ mm. across, 

 scarcely projectiDg above the surface of the bark. Sporules 

 elliptical, smoky, hyaline, 5-6x4-5 /f. 



Cytispora jug'landicola. On bark of dead limbs of Jug- 

 lans nigra, Nov. 30, 1894 (No. 1606). 



Stromata scattered, orbicular, small, (1 mm. diam.), mul- 

 tilocular, protuberant above and piercing the epidermis with 

 a small, snow-white disk, which is pierced in the center with 

 a single pore and finally disappears. Sporules allantoid, 

 hyaline, only slightly curved, 3|-4xlyu, borne on fasciculate 

 basidia 10-11/f long, attenuated above. 



C. juglandina, Sacc, has sporules about twice as long and 

 no white disk. Very abundant on young trees killed by fire 

 last spring. 



Sphaeropsis Amorphae. On dead branches of Amorpha 

 fruticosa, Dec, 1894 (No. 1630). 



Perithecia thickly scattered, subcuticular, ovate-globose, 

 about I mm. diameter, raising and splitting or piercing the 



