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75-90 Xx 8-15 p, sometimes stipitate; paraphyses obscure, almost 
lacking among the older asci and then suggesting a Sphaerulina, but 
evident among the undeveloped asci. | 
Sporidia hyaline, elliptic, tri-septate, irregularly uniseriate, often 
biseriate near the middle or at the apex of the ascus, variable in 
size, 15-22 x 5-8 yp. 
On dead twigs of Staphylea trifoliata L. West Park, 
Ulster county, N. Y. H. D. House, May 6, 1915. Also collected 
on the same host at Green pond, near Jamesville, Onondaga county, 
May 11, 1915. Type in the herbarium of the New York State 
Museum. 
Metasphaeria staphylina (Pk.) Sacc. proves to bs, 
upon examination of the type material, a species of Hysterium and 
is redescribed in another place. 
Metasphaeria varia Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Perithecia thickly scattered, 1% mm apart or crowded, seated in 
the cortex and producing a black stain on the surface of the wood, 
rupturing and raising the cuticle into pustules about .3 mm in 
diameter, depressed globose with short very variable ostiola, in 
section white with a dark border. . 
Asci sparsely paraphysate but covered by a brownish layer of 
apparently paraphysal origin, adhering as though in a mucilaginous 
matrix and separable with difficulty, clavate, thick-walled, 75-100 up. 
Sporidia hyaline, biseriate, constricted, upper half larger, some- 
times separating at the constriction, very variable in size from 
I5 xX 3p to 27 x 7 » or even 33 x 6y, and in septation 3-8 septate, 
quite frequently 4 septate in the upper half and 3 septate in the 
lower one, occasionally longitudinally septate between two septa. 
On dead branches of Rhus copallina L. North Bay, 
Oneida county. H. D. House, June 22, 1915. Type in the herbar- 
ium of the New York State Museum. 
Massaria plumigera FE. & E. 
var. tetraspora Dearness & House, var. nov. 
Sporidia variable but larger than those of the type, the largest 
measuring 82 x 21 »; asci 4-spored, 125-165 x 32-40 mw; paraphyses 
filiform and longer than the asci. As in the type the sporidia are 
permanently hyaline. 
On dead twigs of Viburnum dentatum Linn. Albany, 
N. Y. Collected by H. D. House, May—June, 1915. Type in the 
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