SHEAR: NEw SPECIES OF FUNGI 313 
about the margin ; spores elongate, hyaline or pale lemon-colored, 
continuous. 
This genus should apparently be placed in the order Sphaeropst- 
dales of the Deuteromycetes. It appears to be related to Fiichkelia, 
but differs in having the stroma furnished with a peridium which 
covers its upper part and ruptures at maturity, remaining as a 
spreading cup about the margin of the stroma, _ Its cavities are 
regular in shape and each has its own apical opening. The type 
of the genus is B. pinicola. 
Bothrodiscus pinicola sp. nov. 
Stroma dark-colored, obconic, substipitate, arising from the 
inner bark ; disk black, areolate, 0.5-1 mm. in diameter, covered at 
first by a thin coriaceous peridium which ruptures at maturity and 
spreads in the form of a cup; pycnidia consisting of numerous, 
regular cavities, about 75 in diameter and 100 fe deep in the disk of 
the stroma, covered with a black layer at the top which ruptures 
irregularly ; spores hyaline or faint greenish-yellow in mass, cla- 
vate-cylindric, more or less curved, multi-guttulate, continuous, 
32-42 x 5-6 uw. When the stroma is pressed the spores, at- 
tached at their bases, are expelled in a globular mass. 
Type, no. 7475 C. L. S., on dead branches of Pinus virginiana 
collected by Mrs. T, A. Williams, Takoma Park, D. C., May, 1899. 
Anthostomella destruens sp. nov. 
Perithecia gregarious, submembranous, globose or subpyri- 
form, 350-450 4 diam. usually somewhat contracted above into a 
Short broad neck, ostiolate ; asci 8-spored, cylindrical, subsessile 
200-232 x 15-18 p; paraphyses none ; spores short elliptic, some- 
times somewhat inequilateral, uniseriate, hyaline at first, changing 
to yellowish-brown, and at maturity a deep dark brown, almost 
°paque, 16-24 x 10.512 p. 
_ Type, slide xo, 7491 from pure culture xo, 450 on cornmeal, 
'solated from a diseased cranberry from New Jersey. This is not 
a typical Anthostomella, as paraphyses are wanting. It appears to 
be rather closely related to A. Smilacis H. Fab., but has much 
longer asci and larger different-shaped spores. Pure cultures 
Stown from spores have produced no other spore form. 
ACANTHORHYNCHUS * gen. nov. 
Perithecia submembranous, scattered, buried, beaked; beak 
Spat nile ieee at oe 
* Acanthos <= thor, and rhynchos = beak, suggested by the spiny beak. 
