50 ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. [March 24, 
4. Lophiostoma Pruni, E. and E., (Plate 4, figs. ro-1r). 
Jour. Mycol, vol. 4, page 64. Also figured in Berlese, Icones 
Fungorum, Fasc. I Part I, Tab. VI, fig. 3. 
On Prunus serotina, Lyndonville, April, 1888. 
5. Lophiostoma rhopaloides, Sacc., var. pluriseptata, n. var. 
Differs from the type in having sporidia three to five septate, instead 
of three septate. 
On dead branches of JZap/e, May, 1889. 
6. Pseudovalsa Fairmani, Ellis and Everhart, 2. sp. (Plate 
BaheS. 11,12,. 3,10, TU). 
*Stromata convex pulvinate r-1 4 m. m. diam., formed of the slightly 
altered substance of the inner bark, the surface only sub-carbonized and 
blackened, not surrounded by any distinct circumscribing line, covered 
by the epidermis which is pierced by the stout, short, cylindrical or 
conical ostiola, with smooth or quadrisulcate tips. Perithecia 4 to 8 
in a stroma, closely packed, ovate or subangular from compression, 
about ™% m. m. diam. with whitish, waxy contents. Asci (p. sp.) 
75-85x20 ., mostly only six (6) spored. Sporidia oblong cylindrical, 
yellowish, 3 septate, 30-40x5~-7 y., slightly constricted at the septa. 
The young stromata contain an abundance of pycnzdial spores, (about 
the size and shape of the ascospores) borne on stout or branching 
sporophores about as long as the spores themselves. 
On dead hickory limbs (Carya), Lyndonville, N. Y. 
(In one specimen 5-septate sporidia were found.) 
7. Vermicularia phlogina, Fairman. 
Botanical Gazette, March, 1887. 
On leaves of Phlox divaricata, Ridgeway, N. Y. 
8. Vermicularia solanoica, z. sp. 
Perithecia superficial, numerous, black, 150-175 m. m. in diam. 
Bristles few, mostly uniseptate, at times continuous, of various lengths, 
the longer ones gradually attenuated to an acute tip, brownish, with tips 
subhyaline, 75-100 w. long and 5 y. wide at the base. Conidia oblong, 
fusoid, subarcuate 25-30x2%4-3 w. Endochrome light green, continu- 
ous or faintly divided near the center, granular, nucleate. 
*{n the pycnidial stage the fungus might be taken for a Hendersonula. In 
this stage the stroma is orbicular, depressed, black outside, whitish waxy, horny within, 
divided into ovate, globose or angular cells from the surface of which spring the 
sporophores (40-60x3 /.) bearing at their extremeties the oblong cylindrical, subhyaline 
mostly 3 septate sporules (35-50x6-9 /u.) generally slightly constricted at the septa. The 
surface of the stroma in this pycridial or the Hendersonula stage is at times indistinctly 
papillose from the slightly prominent ostiola. This stroma is also seated on the inner bark 
and erumpent through the epidermis. At first the pycnidial spores are only granular and 
nucleate, but soon become from three to four septate in the progress of development. 
