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surrounded by the ruptured fragments of the epidermis, the surface 
at first pallid or brownish and dotted by the black sulcate ostiola, 
becoming blackish with age, whitish within; perithecia monosti- 
chous, black within, 4-12 in a stroma; asci subclavate or cylin- 
dric, the sporiferous part 35-50 x 8-10 mw; spores crowded or sub- 
biseriate, straight or slightly curved, obtuse at each end, fuscous, 
TO—20 X 4-5 pm. 
Dead branches oi pin cherry, Prunus pennsylvanica 
imote. Anne de Belleyiie: Quebec, Canada. W. P. Fraser. 
Closely related to Diatrype tumidaE. & E,, from which 
it differs in its smaller stroma, its broader asci and specially in 
its broader and darker spores. 
Stroma orbiculare, disciforme vel convexum, I-2 mm latum 
linea atra ad lignum penetrante cinctum, epidermidis ruptae frag- 
mentis cinctum primum pallide brunneum, demum nigrum, ostio- 
lis sulcatis punctatum intra albidum; perithecia monosticha, 
intra atra, in stromate 4-12; asci subclavati vel cylindracei, 35- 
50 x 8-10 p; sporae confertae vel subbiseriatae, rectae vel leviter 
curvae, putrinque obtusae, fuscae, 10-20 x 4-5 pm. 
Eccilia regularis 
Pileus thin, submembranaceous, convex, finely striate to the 
center, distinctly umbilicate, bright buff or pinkish buff, some- 
times with an orange spot in the center when moist, becoming 
silky in drying; lamellae close, arcuate, decurrent, soon pink; 
stem colored like or a little paler than the pileus; spores angu- 
lar, uninucleate, 8-10 x 7-8 up. 
Pileus 2-3 cm broad; stem 4-6 cm long, 2-3 mm thick. 
Ground in woods. Friendship, Me. August. G. E. Morris. 
This is a small but beautiful and very regular or symmetrical 
species. It is nearly uniformly colored throughout, being a yel- 
lowish or pinkish buff. The dried specimens are tawny ochra- 
ceous. Under a lens they appear to have the pileus minutely 
striate. 
Pileus tenuis, submembranaceous, convexus, minute striatus, 
umbilicatus, late luteolus ‘vel incarnate luteolus, interdum udus 
in centro aurantiacus, siccus sericeus; lamellae confertae, arcu- 
atae, decurrentes, mox incarnatae; stipes gracilis, aequalis, farc- 
tus, rectus, glaber, pileo im colore similis vel pallidior; sporae 
angulares, uninucleatae, 8-10 x 7-8 p. 
Pileus 2-3 cm latus; stipes 4-6 cm longus, 2-3 mm crassus. 
