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aceous, globose, 400 !>.. diain. barely covered by the bark which is 

 slightly raised above them and pierced by the short-cylindrical, ob- 

 tuse 150 X 75 //. ostiolum with a rather large round opening at its 

 apex. Asci clavate, subtruncate above and narrowed gradually to 

 the acute base, about 40 x 5 p.. 8-spored. Paraphyses none. Spo- 

 ridia biseriate oblong-cylindrical, scarcely curved, faintly 2-nu- 

 cleate, 6-8 x I2 //. Differs from C. dispersa, Karst. in its rather 

 smaller straight bald ostiolum. 



Ceratostoma juniperinum. 



On a wounded dead place on a limb of Juniperus Virginiana. 

 Flatbush, Long Island. Rev. J, L. Zabriskie. Perithecia grega- 

 rious, awl-shaped, black, 700-800 /j.. high, slightly enlarged at the 

 tip, swollen and about 150 ,«. thick below. Asci included in the 

 ovate-swollen base, oblong-elliptical, about 12 x 6 //. with a slender 

 base 12-15 /j.. long. Sporidia crowded-biseriate, ovate-globose, 

 brown, 4x32 ,"- or a little less. The sporidia exude and form a 

 little brown head at the apex of the perithecia thus giving the ap- 

 I^earance of a Callcium. 



Ceratostoma parasiticum. 



On old Fomes applaiiatus, West Chester, Pa., June 28th, 1889. 

 Gregarious, membranaceous, subhemispherical, i mm. diam. red- 

 dish-brown becoming slaty-black, prolonged above into a stout beak 

 2-2J mm. long, 150 //. thick below, narrowing to about 75 p.. at the 

 paler, subfimbriate tip. Asci obloug-ovate, (p. sp.) about 20-25 x 

 7-8 p.. Sporidia crowded, acutely elliptical, hyaline becoming 

 dark, 7-8 x 4j-5 p. The asci and sporidia often ooze out at the tip 

 of the long beak or ostiolum and form a dark colored globule which 

 inclines to flatten out and thus gives the appearance of an enlarged 

 truncate tip. 



Specimens of Perieonia sphcerophila Pk. found by Mr. Meschutt 

 in Northern New Jersey and by Miss Minns in New Hampshire are 

 ascigerous and much resemble this. 



Ceratostoma conicum. 



On rotten pine logs, Newfield, N. J., July, 1889. Perithecia 

 immersed or subsuperficial by the falling away of the surrounding 

 wood, gregarious, subovate, about 2 mm. diam., rough, prolonged 

 above into a conical rough ostiolum projecting above the surface of 

 the wood and finally elongated to about 1 mm. in length. Asci 75 

 -80 X 8 //. (p. sp.) with stout lance pointed paraphyses much longer 



