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reddish-brown or dark amber color, then blackish; asci 
broad, oblong or oblanceolate ; spores numerous, elliptical, 
slightly colored, .00025’—.0003’ long. 
Dung ofdogs. Bethlehem. May. 
SPH4ZRIA ACERVALIS var. JUNIPERI West. 
Dead wood and branches of red cedar, Juniperus Vir- 
giniana. Buffalo. Clinton. 
SPH RIA MONOSPERMA 7. SD. 
Perithecia scattered, convex or hemispherical, partly 
covered by the fibres of the wood, smooth, black, pierced; 
ascl oblong or lanceolate, containing a single spore; 
paraphyses numerous, filiform; spores very large, oblong 
or subfusiform, obtuse, fenestrate, sometimes obscurely 
multiseptate, yellowish or pale-brown, .003’—.006’ long. 
Decorticated birch wood. Forestburgh. September. 
(Plate 2, figs. 36-39. : 
Remarkable for producing but one spore in an ascus. 
When young the asciare filled with a granular endochrome 
which is gradually absorbed in the formation in each of a 
single large cellular spore which scarcely differs in color 
from the original contents of the ascus. In the best devel- 
oped specimens the ostiolum when magnified appears to 
occupy the center of a small orbicular depressed disk. 
SPHARIA SCORIADEA Fr. Verrucaria conferta Tayl. 
Dead birch branches. Center. June. 
There is some doubt whether this is a fungus or a lichen. 
SPHARIA PLATANICOLA Howe. 
Branchlets of Platanus occidentalis. Yonkers. Howe. 
SPHARIA PULICARIS Pers. 
Dead stems of Indian corn. North Greenbush. October. 
Not having access to Persoon’s description, our specimens 
were determined by comparison with those in Ravenel’s 
Fungi Easiccati Caroliniani. Spheria pulicaris Fr., now 
referred to the genus Nectria, seems to be different. 
SPH#RIA RUBEFACIENS 7. Sp. 
Perithecia minute, scattered, subglobose, smooth, black, 
nearly free, abruptly tapering into the long slender subulate 
