SHEAR: NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI 309 
yellow in mass; sporophores simple, somewhat enlarged at the 
base, slightly longer than the mature spores. 
Type, 20. rg80 C. L. S., on one-year old leaves of Vaccinium 
macrocarpum received from Morgantown, West Virginia, June, 
1902, and kept in a moist chamber about two weeks. Specimens 
also from near Whitesville, New Jersey, no. 1481, November, 1905, 
and zo. 1482, from Olympia, Washington, September, 1906. 
Our plant, externally, closely resembles Sporonema epiphyllum 
(Fr.) Shear. A study of the literature relating to this species, as 
well as a careful examination of the specimens in Fries’ herbarium 
leads us to believe that it is distinct from the plant just described. 
The pycnidia in our species are larger and the spores appear 
to be constantly smaller, less curved and without indication of a 
pseudoseptum. It bears a superficial resemblance to young speci- 
mens of Lophodermium melaleucum (Fr.) DeNot. and it may be the 
Pycnidial stage of this or of Lophodermium Oxycocci (Fr.) Karst. 
Sporonema epiphyllum (Fr.) Shear 
Sphaeria obturata var. b. epiphyllum Fr. Syst. Myc. 2: 495. 1822 ; 
Scler. Suec. Exs. 128. 
S. (Sphaeropsis) obtusata (Typ. error) Curr. Simp. Sphaer. 329. 
S. (Sphaeropsis) obturata Curr. Supp. Obs. Sphaer. 258. 
Sporonema obturatum var. epiphyllum (Fr.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 3: 
678. 1884. 
Clinterium obturatum Fr. Summ. Veg. Scand. 418. 1849. 
Clinterium obturatum Starback, Sphaer. Imp. Cog. 57. p/. 3. f. 36a, 
& 1894. 
The type of Fries’ variety was his Scleromyces Suecica no. 128, 
The spores of this were first described by Curry (/. ¢.); later Star- 
back (7, c.) described and figured the plant. What F ries species, 
Sphaeria obturata, is, does not seem to be definitely known. It 
appears from his treatment of it in Summ. Veg. Scand. that he re- 
8arded the variety as distinct, since he used the specific name un- 
der two genera, Under his new genus, C/interium (2. c., 418) he 
Placed « obturatum,” citing the specimen wo. 128 of his Scler. 
Suec., which represents his variety epiphyl/um, and also Syst. Myc. 
2: 495, where his Sphaeria obturata and its varieties were first pub- 
lished. On page 402 of Summ. Veg. Scand., under the genus 
