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REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 85 
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MYycroruyricm Sutracts De ot. 
Dead stems of Smilax. Sag Harbor, L. I. and Garrisons. June. 
and July. 
LEPTOSTROMA VULGARE Fr. 
Dead stems of herbs. Buffalo. Clinton. Greenbush. June. 
Puoma AMPELINUM B. & C. 
Dead stems of grape vines. Sandlake and Greenbush. June 
and July. 
PHoMA LIBERATUM B. & C. 
On fallen pine leaves. Center. October. 
PxHoma MENISPERMI 7. Sp. 
Perithecia small, scattered, elevated, black, shining, seated on 
’ b) b] 2) 
the inner bark, bursting through the epidermis, spores minute. 
Dead stems of Menispermum Canadense. Greenbush. Novem-+ 
ber. 
Little white spots remain where the perithecia are broken 
away. Sometimes, in a favorable light, little elevated lines may 
be seen extending from one perithecium to another. 
SpHERONEMA SUBTILE //7. 
Rotten wood. Buffalo. Clinton. 
SpH#RONEMA suBULATUM 7. 
Decaying Agarics. Helderberg mountains. June. 
SpH#RONEMA PRUINOSUM 2. Sp. 
Perithecia scattered, seated on the inner bark, erumpent through 
the epidermis, elongated-conical or short spiniform, blunt, black, 
pallid or yellowish at the as more or less pruinose: globule 
hyaline; spores large, oblong, 745,’ long. 
Dead branches of Amelanchier Canadensis. Garrisons. June. 
The branch is roughened by the projecting perithecia, which 
are sometimes so pruinose that it appears to be dotted with little 
white spots. 
SPH £RONEMA CorYLI 2. sp. 
Perithecia innate in the exterior bark, very numerous, minute, 
slightly elevated, truncated, black, easily separating from the 
matrix; spores oblong or elliptical, ~'5;’ in length. 
Dead branches of Corylus Americana. West Albany. July. 
The perithecia are rather fragile, and when moist are easily 
compressed on the slide of the microscope, so that the jointed fila- 
ments which enter into their structure are plainly discernible. 
