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' SpH#rRiA EccentRIcA C. & P. 
Perithecia scattered, depressed, black, at first covered by the 
epidermis which is pierced by the eccentric or lateral curved acute 
rostellate ostiola, at length superficial; asci subclavate; spores 
crowded or biseriate, subfusiform, four-nucleate, hyaline, .00035’ 
loug. 
Dead stems of Polygonum. Albany and Portville. June an 
September. 
SpHa#ria Periotorum Schw. 
Fallen petioles of ash trees. Guilderland. May. 
Spar Karturarum Schw. 
Fallen leaves of Aulmia latifolia. Watkins. September. 
SPH#RIA MELANOSTYLA /7. 
Fallen leaves of Tilia Americana. Helderberg Mts. May. 
Spu#rra Fraxtcota Schw. 
Fallen leaves of ash trees. Greenbush. November. 
The specific name is apparently badly formed. Probably it was 
intended for Fraxinicola, but that name is now applied to another 
species. 
SPH#RIA LEUCOPLAGA B. & R. 
Excrement of cattle. Buffalo. Clinton. Center. November. 
SPH#RELLA SPLENIATA C. & P. 
Perithecia minute, closely grouped in rather large, distant, sub- 
orbicular or angular clusters, globose, black, nestling in the tomen- 
tum of the leaf; asci linear; spores oblong, hyaline, uniseptate, 
.0005—.0006' long. 
Under surface of fallen leaves of. oak trees, Quercus bicolor 
Willd. Greenbush. June. 
Venturia orsicuta C. & P. 
Perithecia minute, globose, superficial, black, collected in orbi- 
cular clusters, bispid with persistent black bristles; asci short, 
subclavate; spores crowded, uniseptate, with the cells generally 
unequal, colored, .0004 long, .00018' broad. 
Under surtace of fallen leaves of oak trees, Quercus montana 
Willd. Sandlake, Albany and Guilderland. May and June. 
The spots are about one-fourth of an inch in diameter and the 
upper surface of the leaf is mottled by them. 
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