64 TWENTY-EIGHTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. 
MIcROSPH BRA PLATANI Howe. 
Leaves of buttonwood, Platanus occidentalis: Yonkers 
Howe. ITO , 2 to 
MICROSPH BRA SYMPHORICARPI Howe,,, 
Leaves of snowberry, Symphoricarpus racemosus. 
Yonkers. Hove. fa 
MIcROSPHZRA MENISPERMI Howe. 
Leaves of moonseed, Menispermum Canadense. Yonk- 
ers. Howe. 
MICROSPH ERA ABBREVIATA 7. Sp. 
Mycelium thin; conceptacles small ; appendages six to 
fifteen, hyaline, rough, shorter than the diameter of the 
conceptacles, many times dichotomous at the tips, the ulti- 
mate ramuli curved; sporangia three or four, containing 
three to five, mostly four, spores; spores large, .001’+.0013’ 
long, .00066’ broad. 
Under surface of dead or languishing oak leaves. Buffalo. 
Clinton. (Plate 2, figs. 4-5.) 
Allied to M. Hedwigii, from which it is separated because 
of the short scabrous appendages, etc. 
MICROSPHZRA VAN BRUNTIANA Ger. 
Living leaves of elder, Sambucus Canadensis. Pough- 
keepsie. Gerard. Buffalo. Clinton. Oneida. Warne. 
West Albany and Sandlake, . July to September. 
This species is described as having eight spores in a 
sporangium, but I have not been able to detect more than 
four in the specimens which I have examined. 
CH £ZTOMIUM LANOSUM 7%, Sp, 
Perithecia small, subglobose, scattered or, crowded, 
densely covered with long woolly hairs, which are. either 
dingy-olivaceous or mouse-colored ; asci short, broad, fuga- 
cious ; spores subglobose, at first pale, then slightly colored, 
.0003’—-.00035’ in diameter, containing a single large nucleus. 
On herbarium specimens of grasses. Albany. May. 
The soft woolly appearance of the hairs suggests the spe- 
cific name. : 
