REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I917 5I 



Gloniella ovata (Cooke) Sacc. 



On decorticated and weathered wood ofCastanea dentata. 

 Orient, N. Y. Roy Latham, no. 824. May 20, 1916. The type of 

 this species (collected by Ravenel in Carolina) is said to be on oak. 



Gloniella parvulata Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Perithecia 250 to 350 fx in diameter, scattered, nearly black, short- 

 elliptic, dimidiate, erumpent but covered by a very thin layer of 

 wood-fibers, striate where exposed; mouth nearly round or short- 

 cleft. Asci 60 to 95 X 12 to 15 ;ii, 6 to 8 /x thick at the apex; 

 paraphyses abundant, longer than the asci. Sporidia hyaline, spir- 

 ally 2 to 3-seriate, 3 to 5-septate, mostly 3-septate, constricted, the 

 second cell from the top widest, 20 to 24 x 6 to 8 /x. 



On decorticated and weathered wood of Thuja occiden- 

 tal i s . Brownsville. C. H. Peck, June. 



Gloniella vaccinicola Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Perithecia black, minute, 90 to 250 /a in diameter, round or ovate, 

 seated in the cortex, thickly scattered, stellately rupturing the 

 cuticle ; -lips or rim not definitely distinct from the black paraphysal 

 layer overlying the hyaline asci. Asci parallel, 75 to 90 x 10 to 

 12 /x, paraphyses not distinct between the asci, interwoven in a thick 

 layer, 15 /x thick, above them. Sporidia fusoid, hyaline, 3 to 

 5-septate, 18 to 21 x 4 to 5 /x, obliquely 2 to 3-seriate in the asci. 



On dead branchlets of V a c c i n i u m c o r y m b o s u m . Sand- 

 lake, N. Y. C. H. Peck (no date given). This was designated by 

 Doctor Peck as Sphaeria vaccinicola Schw., the type 

 of which is said to be sterile, and which is probably a quite different 

 species. 



Glonium pruni Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Perithecia dimidiate, subcarbonous, dull black, evenly and thickly 

 scattered, elliptic at base, .3 to .5 x .15 to .20 mm subcuticular, 

 opening by a nearly round" pore or a short cleft. Asci 75 to 100 

 X 10 to 12 /x, sessile, clavate-cylindric, narrow at the base, over- 

 topped by the linear, branching, hyaline paraphyses. Sporidia 

 hyaline, uniseptate, biseriate in half to three-fourths of the length 

 of the asci, somewhat constricted, 13 to 16 x 4.5 to 5.5 fi. 



