68 TWENTY-EIGHTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. 
.0008’—-0009’ long, .0002’ broad ; paraphyses slender, simple, 
slightly thickened above. 
Decaying wood. Portville. September. 
PATELLARIA DISPERSA (er. 
Bark of Juniperus Virginiana. Poughkeepsie. Gerard. 
New Baltimore. Howe. 
PATELLARIA FENESTRATA C. & P. 
Scattered, dull black, somewhat soft and waxy when 
moist, discoid, rather irregular when dry, margin rounded, 
elevated, contracted when dry, disk plane or convex, some- 
times depressed or umbilicate in the center ; asci subclavate ; 
spores four to eight, involved in mucus, large, pyriform, 
multiseptate, fenestrate, brown, .0018’-.002’ long ; paraphy- 
ses slightly clavate. 
i Dead branches of poplar. Center. October and Novem- 
er. 
This species closely resembles the preceding one, but it is 
less scattered in its mode of growth, the spores are longer 
in proportion to their breadth, and are involved in mucus.) 
SPHINCTRINA TIGILLARIS B. & Br. 
On Polyporus abietinus. Albany. Buffalo. Clinton. 
The spores in our specimens are .0003’—.0006’ long. 
CreNANGIUM AUCUPARIE F7. 
Dead branches of mountain ash, Pyrus Americana. 
Keene, Essex county. July. 
CENANGIUM RuBI A7. 
Dead stems of raspberry. North Greenbush. May. 
CENANGIUM DEFORMATUM 72. Sp. ; 
Small, crowded or scattered, at first irregular or subspher- 
ical then opening at the top and becoming discoid with an 
irregular or ruptured margin, black; spores crowded, ellip- 
tical, at first pale with the endochrome centrally parted, 
then colored and uniseptate, .0011’-.0013’ long. 
Dead bark of ¥uniperus Virginiana. Greenbush. May. 
When young the plants resemble some small irregular 
Spheria. They sometimes manifest a tendency to grow in 
lines. 
