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Dead stems of the wing-angled loosestrife, Lythrum alatum 

 Pursh. Stockton, Kansas. October. Common. E. Bartholo- 



mew. 



Pleospora magnifica 



Perithecia minute, at first covered by the thin epidermis, then 

 erumpent or subsuperficial, hemispheric or depressed-globose, 

 black, the ostiolum minute, inconspicuous ; asci oblong, cylindric, 

 200—240// long, 48—60/* broad; spores large, colored, crowded 

 or biseriate, oblong or slightly narrowed toward one end, obtuse, 



7— 9-septate with about 3 longitudinal septa, 65-75 l l l° n gi 2 5~3 5 ! l 

 broad. 



Dead stems of Phlox. Silver Lake, Utah. August, 1905. 



A. O. Garrett collected it. E. Bartholomew communicated it. 



Remarkable for the large size of the muriculate spores. 



Geological Hall, Albany, New York. 



