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sometimes involved ina gray tomentum ; asci linear ; spores 
oblong-elliptical, colored, uniseriate, uniseptate, .0005’— . 
.0006’ long. 
Dead branches of Vaccinium corymbosum. Forestburgh. 
September. Also on branches of 'Halmia latifolia. J. 
B. Ellis. (Plate 1, figs. 15-18). 
The young spores are pale and simple, containing one or 
more nuclei, but they soon become colored and uniseptate. 
LOPHIOSTOMA SEXNUCLEATA Cooke. 
Dead stems of grape vines. North Greenbush. October. 
The perithecia in our specimens are closely placed and 
the spores are smaller than in the type, being .001’-.0012’ 
long, but I have not thought best to separate our plant as a 
distinct species. 
SPHERIA THUJINA 72. Sp. 
Perithecia scattered, nearly free, hemispherical or conical, 
slightly rugulose, thin, fragile ; ostiola at first slightly papil- 
late then pertuse ; spores large, uniseptate, oblong-ellipti- 
cal, constricted at the septum, colored, .0015’—.0018’ long. 
Decaying wood of Thuja occidentalis. Adirondack 
Mts. Aug. 
SPHERIA PILIFERA JY. 
Decaying wood. Buffalo. Clinton. 
The specimens are sterile but appear to belong here. I 
have seen no description of the fruit of this species and con- 
clude that it is rarely fertile. 
SPHAERIA LAGENARIA Pers. 
On the hymenium of some old Polyporus. Adirondack 
Mountains. August. 
I find no account of the spores of this species and therefore 
subjoin the following description of the fruit of our speci- 
mens. 
Asci very broad, delicate, fugacious; spores crowded, 
simple, elliptical, colored, .0005’ long, .0003’ broad. : 
This is, apparently, a rare species with us. The sporesare 
sometimes found adhering, in a mass, to the apex of the 
long slender ostiolum. The subicular tomentum is present 
in some of the specimens and there is sometimes a hairy 
appearance to the perithecia which seems to be due to this 
tomentum or to some minute mucedinous growth. 
