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Peck: NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI 349 
Cucurbitaria erratica 
Perithecia cespitose, subglobose, more or less hairy, black, 
penetrating to the inner bark and forming orbicular or oblong 
_ Clusters, soon erumpent and surrounded by the ruptured epidermis ; 
asci cylindric, about 200 # long, 20-22 » broad; spores commonly 
monostichous, oblong, colored, 5-7-septate, with 1-3 cells longi- 
tudinally divided, constricted in the middle, 30-40 p long, 15-20 
broad, the basal half of the spore often more narrow than the 
other, paraphyses absent. 
Dead branches of Ohio buckeye, Aesculus glabra Willd. 
Oberlin, Ohio. March. F. O. Grover. 
This species is referred provisionally to the genus Cucurditaria, 
from which it differs in its hairy perithecia and in the absence of 
paraphyses. It approaches C. Sordi Karst. in some of its characters. 
GEOLOGICAL HALL, 
ALBANY, NEw YorK. 
