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bands, or streaks, which may be invisible in the older and opaque 

 ones, quadrilocular, irregularly biseriate, straight, or curved, involved 

 in mucus, 43-47 x 10 /^ ; end cells ovate, 13 /^ long> middle cells 

 barrel shaped, 10 n long. On the inner surface of pod of locust, 

 Robinia pseudacacia L., lying on the ground, under shrubbery, in 

 garden, Lyndonville, N. Y., October 3, 1905. This can not be 

 referred to Sporormia intermedia, var. lignicola Ph. et Plow., for the 

 asci are not as broad, the sporidia are smaller, and the ostiola are 

 different, according to the description in Sylloge, and Berlese, Icones 

 Fungorum, Tab. XXIX., Fig. 3. The light colored bands of the 

 young sporidia are peculiar, we think, to this species. 



A distinct group of fungi inhabiting dung has been proposed, the 

 Fimicoli, yet it is well known that species of Sordaria, Sporormia, 

 etc., are occasionally, even if rarely, found on decaying vegetable 

 tissues. Among the species of Sporormia, described in Sylloge, vol- 

 umes II. and IX., 44 species, only 5, or eight and eight-tenths per 

 cent, are mentioned as occurring on plants. Sporormia lignicola Ph. 

 & Plow., Sacc, Syll., II., p. 128, No. 3330 is on Fraxiniis, and has 

 sporidia 60 x 14 «. Sporormia ulniicola Pass. & Winter, Sacc, 

 Syll., II., p. 128, is on elm and is provided with sporidia 38 x 8 //, 

 while form quercina, with sporidia 40-50 x 10 n, is different from 

 our specimen, in habitat and ostiola. Sporormia gigaspora Fuckel, 

 on wood, Sacc, Syll., II., p. 132, No. 3342, has 8-celled sporidia. 

 Sporormia ticinensis Pirotta, Sacc, Syll., II., p. 132, No. 3343, 

 is on Populics, and is also 8-celled. Sporormia brassier Grove, 

 Sacc, Syll., IX., p. 818, No. 3332, on putrescent stalks of cabbage, 

 Brassica sp. , has sporidia 25-35 x 4-5 IL The "Sporormia spec", 

 on Brassica, described by Feltgen, in Vorstudien, I. Theil, Ascomy- 

 cetes, p. 341, No. 1043, resembles Grove's species somewhat, having 

 sporidia 25-27 x 7 //. Thus it appears that Sporormia leguminosa 

 is, at least, different from non-fimicolous Sporormiae, which have been 

 described. 



359. Amphisphaeria bertiana Fairman, n. sp. 



(Plate XX., Figs. 3 and 4.) 



Perithecia gregarious in indefinite clusters, or rarely, scattered, 

 large, 300-500 // diam., globose or ovate-globose, dull black, coarsely 

 tuberculate-roughened, pierced by the prominent conical ostiola, 

 which are lustrous polished black ; contents of the crushed perithecia 

 white ; asci octosporous, narrow clavate-cylindrical, tapering to a 



