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352. Cryptosporella niesslii (J. Kunze) Sacc. Sacc, 

 Syll. 18 1 2. Crypiospora Nies Hi K.nnze., Hedw. , 1878, page 46. On 

 maple bark, D. Clark's woods, Lyndonville, N. Y. , Sept., 1904. Not 

 to our knowledge reported before from this country. Pustules 

 corticolous, elevating the bark. Stroma yellowish, or honey colored, 

 and surrounded with a small black circumscribing line ; perithecia 

 several (3 to 5) in a stroma, mostly around the outer edges; asci 

 oblong-cylindrical, 50 x 7 /i ; sporidia uniseriate, hyaline, oblong 

 cylindrical with rounded ends or sub- navicular, 2-4 guttulate, 12-13 ^ 

 3-4 [J.. In the Sylloge the asci are given as 36 x 9 ii. 



353. Melanomma juniperi Ellis & Everhart, n. sp. Peri- 

 thecia superficial, the base slightly set in the bark, globose, black, 

 large, scattered over wide areas of the bark, or occasionally very 

 slightly clustered, with a small, slightly prominent, sub-mastoidal 

 ostiolum ; asci cylindrical, straight ; sporidia fusoid, brown, 3—5 

 septate, the two middle cells larger, the end cells smaller, 40 x 10-12 p-. 

 On loosely hanging bark of red cedar, Jitnipcnis virginia7ia, on fence 

 posts at Blood's Bridge over Johnson's Creek at Lyndonville, N. Y. , 

 April, 1904. I have drawn up the description from the specimens 

 originally collected. The sporidia resemble those of Melanomma 

 hydrophilum, (Karst. ), according to the fig. in Berlese, Icones 

 Fungorum, Tab. XXIV., f. 4, but are larger and of a different color. 



354. Caryospora cariosa Fairman, n. sp. Perithecia large, 

 conic, black, superficial, or with base slightly immersed in the wood, 

 scattered or gregarious ; ostioli small ; asci oblong cylindrical, 150 x 

 20 //. (p. sp. ), surrounded by numerous filiform paraphyses, 2-8 

 spored ; sporidia overlapping uniseriate, hyaline at first, then brown 

 and finally almost opaque, uniseptate, with occasional additional septa 

 near the ends, making them 1-3 septate, granulose guttulate (with 

 opaque rounded granular contents), constricted at the middle septum, 

 broad fusoid to biconical, ends sub-obtuse, 36-43 x 13-17 {i-. The 

 sporidia are at times hyaline mucronate at the ends, or have a pro- 

 jection from the side of a bubble of mucus, and the halves of the 

 sporidia are sometimes curved on opposite sides. On very hard 

 blackened areas in carious cavities of beech firewood (^Fagus^. 

 Lyndonville, N. Y., Oct., 1904. 



