98 TWENTY-FOURTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. 
Hypoxyton Howerranum 2”. sp. 
Globose sessile, covered with a bright red crust, which is thickly 
punctate with minute black papillate ostiola, at length dull yel- 
low or black, 3”-6” in diameter; perithecia peripheric, crowded, 
ovate, black, shining; stroma dense, blackish-bronze, shining, not 
at all or only very obscurely zonate, radiate-fibrous. 
Fallen branches of some deciduous tree. Center. November. 
Allied to H. fragiforme in its red crust and ovate perithecia, 
but it differs in its larger size, punctate, not tuberculose, surface, 
smaller spores, ete. 
HypoxyLon PERFORATUM Schw. 
Dead branches of birch trees. Catskill mountains. July. 
HypoxyLon ARGILLACEUM /7. 
Trunks of beech trees. Sandlake. June. Buffalo. Clinton. 
Hyvoxyton Breavumontn B. & C. 
Denuded wood of acerose trees. Helderberg mountains. May. 
Hypvoxyton Morsen B. & C. 
Dead branches of alders. Sandlake and Center. Spring and 
autumn. 
HypoxyLon ANTHRACODES F7. 
On a prostrate trunk of Zilia Americana. Trenton Falls. 
September. 
Necrria Preziza Fr. 
Old stumps and rotten wood. Greig and Indian Lake. Sep- 
tember and October. 
NEcTRIA INAURATA B. & Br. 
Stem of Celastrus scandens? Buffalo. Clinton. ' 
VALSA PULCHELLA /7. 
Dead trunks of cherry trees. Sandlake. June. 
A pretty species, but nearly concealed by the epidermis of the 
bark. 
VALSA SALICINA /7, 
Dead branches of willows. Buffalo. Clinton. West Albany. 
May. 
VALSA LEUCOsTOMA /7. 
Dead branches of apple trees. Buffalo. Clinton. Sandlake. 
October. 
