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fertile hyphae cespitose, short, continuous, brownish, acute at the 

 apex, 1 2-20 x 3-4 fi, entire or sparingly toothed above, excep- 

 tionally with 2-3 short subdigitate branches above : conidia nor- 

 mally cylindrical, curved, hyaline, 1-5- (mostly 3-4-) septate, 40- 

 60 x 2.5-3 [*> others shorter and thicker, 20-40 x 3-4/*, nearly 

 straight, narrow at one end. 



Enphorbiac Pat. and from C. Eupli 



& Swingle. 



Notes and Corrections. 



895 



Fames albolutcus E. & E. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. : 

 413- 1895. 



Additional specimens and notes of this species show that it is 

 a Polyporus and not a Fames. In the fresh growing state it is 

 very juicy and absorbs moisture to a remarkable degree so that 



water may be squeezed out of it as from a sponge. Some speci- 

 mens were 3-4 cm. thick. When mature the pores are prolonged 

 on one side so as to resemble the teeth of an Irpcx. The spores 

 are oblong, hyaline, 8-12x3 fit. Allied to Polyporus leucospongia 

 Cke. & Hark. 



Ampkisphaeria melantera E. & E., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 24 : 

 278. 1897. 



The perithecia are quite variable, often depressed and some- 

 times distinctly collapsed and are smaller than at first stated, 

 averaging about 400 ft in diam. 



Lophidium confertum E. & E. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 



l8 94: 335- 1894. 



Fully matured specimens of this species on dead ash limbs, sent 

 from Oberlin, Ohio, by Prof. H. L. Jones, show that the sporidia 

 finally became 5-septate. In the Ohio specimens the sporidia are 

 larger, 15-22 x 10*12/*. The perithecia are white inside both in 

 the Kansas and in the Ohio specimens. 



This is closely allied to L. Cotini H. Fabre. 



Montagnella tumefaciens (E. & H.), North Am. Pyren. 253. 



Prof. Bethel finds this near Denver, Colo., on dead stems of 

 Bigclovia grarcolens. The limbs are swollen as in the original 

 specimens and the fungus differs only in its shorter (75-85 /i) asci, 

 and rather smaller (15-20 x 3.5—5.5/*) sporidia. Var. rcducta, 

 on limbs of the same host, differs in its 3-6-septate sporidia. 



