NOTICES OF NORTH AlIERICAX FUNGI. IH 



Spots brown, irregular, with a black margin ; perithecia scat- 

 tered, erumpeut; spores narrow, fusiform, 4-septate, attenuated 

 above, with a long recurved hyaline process. 



450. (bis). Cystotzicha stenospora. B. & C- Linearis vel hysterii- 

 fonnis erunipens sporoiihoris moniliformibus ; sporis lateralibusuni- 

 septatis, breviter fusiformibus. 



On elder, Pennsylvania. Micbener. No. 3932, 3960. 



Linear or hysteriifurin, bursting through the fibres of the bleached 

 wood; spore-bearing tbreads, moniliform, spores affixed laterally, 

 sbortly fusiform, byaline, uniseptate. 



[Note. — The intermediate numbers have already been published in this 

 Journal, Vol. ii., pp. 98 and 153, to which the reader is referred. 



Ed. Grev.] 



501. Myxosporium nitidunx. B. ^- C. — Pustulis gregariis epider- 

 mide e sporis oblongis minutissimis aurantia tectis. 



On Cornus alteniijolia. Virginian Mountains. Curtis, No. 

 3346. New England. Oakes. No, 3105. Pennsylvania, Micbener. 

 No. 3356. A very pretty species. 



Pustules gregarious, black within, orange externally fi'om the 

 gpores, which are very minute and shortly oblong. In one of 

 Michener's specimens on thicker branches, the colour is far duller, 



502. Myxospozium Musae. B ^- C. — Pustulis minutis gregariis, 

 sporis oblongis. 



On fruit of Mnsa. Car. Sup. Curtis. No. 3435. 



Pustules minute, pale orange ; spores oblong, "0003 long, about 

 ^ as much "wide. As the fruit changes colour when ripe, the 

 pustules are not very conspicuous. 



503. Glaeosporium versicolor. B.ScC. — Maculis reliculatisgriseis ; 

 sporis oblongis clavatisque hyalinis. 



On apples. Car. Inf. No. 3216, 3834. 



Forming patches an inch or more wide ; sori reticulated, spores 

 oblong or slightly clavate, greyish, -0004 long. Very different in 

 habit from G. Jiuctigenum, B., which also occurs on apples. In 

 No. 3834 the spores are 000b long. 



504. Glaeospozium cinctum. B. 4' C. — Pustulis minutis gregariis 

 epidermide nigrefacta cinctis, sporis oblongis utrinque obtusis. 



On orchids in an orchid house, Massachusetts. Russell. No. 

 5437. 



Forming little scattered patches ; pustules minute, surrounded 

 ■with the blackened cuticle ; spores oblong, obtuse at either ex- 

 tremity, sometimes slightly curved, granular within, •00l-*006 long, 

 about J as much wide, 



505. Cesatia turbinata. B. & C— Pustulis minutissimis turbinatis 

 basi augustioribus. 



