FAIRMAX — PYRENOMYCETE.E OF ORLEANS COUNTY. I79 



Berlese, Icones, Tab. XVI., fig. i. On old peach stones on the 

 ground. 



Sporormia DeNotaris 1848. 



293. Sporormia minima Auerswald. N. A. Pyr. , p. 34 and 

 plate 18. Berlese, Icones, Tab. 38, fig. 4. Sacc. Syll., 3317. 

 Feltgen, No. 1038. On cow dung. 



PsEUDOVALSA Ces. and DeNot. 1861. 



294. Pseudovalsa irregularis (DC.) Schroeter. Sphcsria 

 irregularis DC, 1815. Valsaprofusa Fr. in Peck, 25 Rep., p. 105. 

 Ps. prof lis a, N. A. Pyr., p. 538. Aglaospora profusa, (Fr. ) in Syll. 

 3346. Ps. prqfusa, Berlese, Icones, Tab. XXXIV., fig. 6. Ps. 

 irregularis, Feltgen, No. 523. On dead branches of Robinia 

 pseudacacia. 



295. Pseudovalsa fairmani E, & E. Fairman, Proc. Roch. 

 Acad. Sci. , 1890, p. 51, plate 3, fig. i, 2, 3, 10, 11. On dead hickory 

 limbs. 



296. Pseudovalsa hapalocystis (B. and Br.) Sacc. N. A. 

 Pyr., p. 538. Berlese, Icones, Tab. XXXVI., fig. i. Feltgen, No. 

 526. Specimens from the Lyndonville collection were furnished for 

 distribution in N. A. F. and the drawings by Berlese were made from 

 No. 21 1-9 of N. A. F. (doubtless from our specimens). On dead 

 Plataniis occidentalis. 



Melogramma Fries 1849. 



297. Melogramma buUiardi Tulasne 1862. N. A. Pyr., 

 P- 553. plate 36. Feltgen, No. 485. M. vagans, Syll., 3381. 

 M. vagans, Berlese, Icones, Tab. XXXVII, fig, 2. On dead 

 Carpi?ius. 



Section VII. HYALOPHRAGMIiE Sacc. 



Sporidia oblong or fusoid, 2-pluriseptate, hyaline. 



Metasph^ria Sacc. 



298. Metasphseria leiostega (Ellis) Sacc. N. A. Pyr., 

 p. 383. Ellis, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 8, p. 91. On dead stems of 

 wild Rose. 



299. Metasphaeria fiedlaeri (Niessl) Sacc. Letosphcsria 

 Pied/(^?'i Niessl. Crjpiosp/i<^ria P. , Niessl, 1874. Feltgen, No. 809. 

 " Perithecia semi-immersed, covered or partially exposed, coriaceous- 



