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314 SHEAR: NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI 
spiny, ostiolate ; asci 8-spored, paraphysate ; spores continuous, 
-brownish-yellow. 
Type, A. Vaccinit. 
Acanthorhynchus Vaccinii sp. nov. 
Perithecia amphigenous, scattered, subglobose, or somewhat 
flask-shaped, submembranous, buried, scarcely erumpent, I20— 
200 p diam.; neck stout, exserted, ostiolate, % to % length 
the perithecium, beset with black, nonseptate spines, 50-70 X 
8-9 pat base; asci subelliptical or somewhat clavate, subsessile, 
8-spored, having an apical pore, 120-155 x 24-44 /; paraphyses 
septate, exceeding the asci; spores oblong-elliptic, continuous, 
pale brownish-yellow, surrounded by a mucilaginous layer of pro- 
toplasm, 24-32 x 12-18 p. 
Type, mo. 1493 C. L. S., on leaves of Vaccinium macrocarpum, 
West Mills, New Jersey, September, 1901. Specimens also ex- 
amined from Nova Scotia, Massachusetts and West Virginia ; 
also obtained in cultures from Wisconsin cranberries. 
This genus is apparently nearly related to Sordavia and Hypo- 
copra as treated by recent authors; the spores are forcibly dis- 
charged at maturity, and upon germination produce dark-brown 
crenate-lobed disk-shaped appressoria 50-100 p in diameter. 
These can frequently be found attached to the surface of cranberry 
leaves into which they send germ-tubes. The protoplasm about 
the spores in the ascus extends to the apex and seems attached 
there in a manner somewhat similar to that described in ypocopr@ 
by Griffiths and others. The form of the protoplasm suggests 4 
secondary internal ascus-membrane, but this has not been 
demonstrated. 
Glomerella rufomaculans Vaccinii var. nov. 
Conidia. — Acervuli amphigenous, small, scattered, on a light- 
brownish, more or less indefinite spot ; conidia forming gelatinous, 
pale-pinkish masses, oblong-cylindric or sub-clavate and some- 
times slightly curved, 12-18 x 4.5-6y, guttulate, contents granu- 
lar; sporophores simple, slightly tapering above, about twice the 
length of the conidia ; setae rarely present. : 
Perithecia. — Perithecia scattered, gregarious or cespitos¢ in 
cultures and more or less buried in a dark-brown, felt-like subi- 
culum or pseudostroma, dark-brown or nearly black, submem> 
branous, subglobose, slightly rostrate, ostiolate ; asci g-spored, 
