NOTICES OF NORTH AMERICAN FUNGI. 99 



longitudinaliter enimpentibus ; ascis clavatis ; sporidiis hyalinis 

 uniseptatis angustis. 



On Acer striatum. Massachusetts. No. 3405. 



Perithecia few, bursting through the bark longitudinally ; asci 

 clavate ; sporidia narrow, uniseptate, constricted more or less at 

 the septum, sometimes almost biconical, "00083 long. 



* Melogramma insidens. Sckwein. — On ash. No. 4394. Penn- 

 sylvania, Michener. No. 4353. 



Sporidia obhmg, in one or two rows uniseptate, '0003 long. 

 Car. Inf., No. 1542, 2960, Sj^hcerm collematoidcs, B. & C, 



scarcely differs, except in the stratum being more pulvinate. 



Sjyhcuria Gallce, Schwein, is a Sphceropsis. 



863. BXelogxamma Spxaguei. B. Sc C— Massa undulata pulve- 

 rulenta; ascis linearibus; sporidiis clavatis triseptatis verticuliter 

 devisis. 



On Pimis strobus. Massachusetts, C. J. Sprague. 



Undulated, pulverulent, looking like the work of some burrow- 

 ing larva ; perithecia entirely concealed ; asci linear ; sporidia 

 shortly clavate, with three horizontal and a few vertical septa. 



* Valsa pxunastri. Fr. — On Cerasus. Car. Inf. Ravenel. No. 

 1271. 



» Valsa stellulata. Fr.—G&x. Inf. No. 2277. Ravenel. No. 

 547, 583, 584, 615, 1341, 1343, 1430, 1453, 1792. Pennsylvania, 

 Michener. No. 3427, 4119, 4176, 4224, 4391, 4412. Texas, C. 

 Wright. No. 3900. New Jersey. No. 4678, 4693. Ohio. No. 

 5884. To these might be added fifty more numbers, many of which 

 have been sent out as Sph. tetraploa. 



* Valsa Toxici. Schwein. — On Elnts radicans. Car. Inf. Rave- 

 nel. No. 1424. 



* Valsa anomia. Schwein. — Qn Rohinia. Virginian Mountains. 

 No. 3345. 



In the Schweinitzian specimen the sporidia are sausage-shaped, 

 •0004--0003long. In the Virginian we have the stylospores fusi- 

 form or slightly curved and obtuse, uniseptate, .0013 long, with a 

 long slender pedicel. 



* Valsa haustellata. Fr.— On A Inus serrnlata. Car. Inf. Ravenel. 

 No. 1663, 1764. On Ostrya virginka. No. 1805. Santee Swamp. 

 No. 1815. 



* Valsa Iieaiana. B. — Hook. Lond. Journ., 1845, p. 311. 

 On hornbeam. Car. Inf. Ravenel. No. 1364. 



Sporidia sausage-shaped. In Sphoeria carpini linear oblong, 

 3-septate. 



* Valsa fibrosa. i'V.— Mountains of New York. No. 4467. 

 Sporidia oblong, elliptic, uniseptate, at length fenestrate, -0006 



long. 



