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The Bota?iical Gazette. 



[February, 



tate. Asci clavate-cylindrical, 60-65 x 6-7//. Paraphyses fili- 



form, gradually but 



slightly 



thickened above. Sporidia 

 1-seriate, elliptical or ovate- 

 elliptical, hyaline, subinequilat- 

 eral, with a small nucleus in 



On 

 decaying sticks and wood in 

 wet places. — Sand Coulee, 

 Cascade co., Montana, May 

 1889.— Anderson, no. 490. 



each end, 8-1 Ox 3-4/x. 



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Explanation of Figures. — 1, about 

 natural size, on dead wood; 2, a mature 

 specimen considerably enlarged; 3, a 

 somewhat younger specimen consider- 

 ably enlarged; 4, vertical section, showing hymenial layer; 5, group of asci and 

 paraphyses in situ; on the side (at 8) a paraphysis peculiarly branched- 7 mature 

 spores. Figs. f> and 7 much magnified. 



Phoma ilicina Amphigenous. Perithecia innate, raising 



the cuticle into little pustules, with the apex suberumpent, 

 globose, small (0.2mm. diam.) Sporules fusoid-oblong, hya- 

 line, 2-nucleate, 6-8x2-3//, on basidia of about the same 

 length 



as the sporules themselves. 



(Iiexsp.), Washington, D. C, Oct. 1890. 



On dead holly leaves 



Coiiiotlivnum 1 1 id num. 



Perithecia epiphyllous, rather 



prominent, the epidermis blackened over them 



Sporules 



subglobose, or short-elliptical, pale-brown, about 2.5 or B/x 

 in the longer diameter. — On same leaves as preceding. 



Dulliiorella Nelumhii. 



Perithecia scattered, semi-erum- 



pent, rough, black, pierced above, about 150/i diam., de- 



pressed-spherical or sublenticular. 



Sporules oblong-fusoid, 



hyaline. 1 5-22 X 6-7/*. Has the aspect of a Sphatrella. 

 receptacle of Nelumbium, Washington, D. C, Oct. 1890. 



On 



Yolntella occidental is. 



(Plate VII, figs. 



1-6.) 



dochia gregarious, thin and flat, about 1 mm. or a littl 



Sporo- 

 e more 



