REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 15 
lanceolate; spores crowded, elongated, sublinear, straight or 
slightly flexuous, obtuse, slightly thickened at the ends, 
.0013’—.003’ long. 
Dead alder branches. West Albany and Greenbush. 
Also on dead branches of basswood. Buffalo. Clinton. 
Closely related to Valsa‘suffusa, but the spores are 
shorter and thickened at each end and the ostiola are not 
always crowded in the center of the disk. The perithecia 
adhere to the epidermis and are torn away withit. The 
hame is suggested by the resemblance of the spores to a 
Semur. 
VALSA SAMBUCINA 2. Sp. 
Pustules erumpent, sometimes seriately placed ; ostiola 
slightly prominent, even or radiately: sulcate, scattered or 
crowded ; asci linear; spores eight, uniseriate, oblong, 
colored, triseptate, .0005’-.0006’ long. 
Dead stems and branches of elder. Catskill Mountains. 
June. 
When young the spores are paler. The pustules vary 
much in size, those on the branches being larger and more 
scattered than those on the main stems or trunks. 
CUCURBITARIA ALNEA 7. Sp. 
Perithecia czespitose, erumpent, astomous, black, white 
within, the tufts closely surrounded by the transversely 
ruptured epidermis; spores uniseriate, uniseptate, sub- 
acuminate, constricted at the septum, nearly colorless, with 
one or two nuclei in each cell, .0008’—.001’ long. 
Dead alders, Center. May. 
Torula alnea is associated with this species and may be 
a condition of it. 
CUCURBITARIA SERIATA 2. SD. 
Perithecia czespitose, erumpent in long flexuous inter- 
rupted lines, small, nearly globose, black, white within, 
sometimes collapsing, the stroma if present merely cortical 
and subferruginous ; asci cylindrical or subclavate ; spores 
uniseriate or rarely crowded, uniseptate, oblong-elliptical, 
slightly constricted at the septum, hyaline, .0004’—.0005’ 
long. 
Dead bark of Euonymus. Albany. October. Dr. C. 
Devol. 
