REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 47 
LAMPRODERMA PHysARoIDES A. & &. 
Decaying wood. Buffalo. Clinton. Indian Lake. 
Puoma NEBULosuM Berk. 
Dead nettle stems. Buffalo. Clinton. May. 
Cryprosporium Caricis Cd. 
Dead leaves of sedges. West Albany. May. 
CryprosporiuM NovEBORACENSE B & C. 
Bark of hemlock. Markham Station. Clinton. May. 
Prcoxta Clinton nov. gen. 
Perithecia carbonaceous, spheriform, glabrous ; spores concatenate. 
The strings of spores are nearly or quite colorless, sometimes 
branched in a retiform manner, sometimes involved in mucus. The 
character of the perithecia separates the genus from Myxormia. 
Proxta Sarracent#® Peck & Clinton, n. sp. 
Perithecia scattered or collected in small groups, sometimes seated 
on blackish spots, small, slightly prominent, black ; strings of spores 
retiformly branched, spores oblong, narrow, colorless, .0003’ long. 
Dead leaves of pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea. Buffalo. 
Clinton. 
Prcxia CLINTONII 2. sp. 
Perithecia scattered, prominent on both surfaces of the leaf, smooth, 
black; strings of spores involved in mucus ; spores subquadrate, 
slightly tinged with green, .0002’ long. 
Decaying leaves of Smilacina trifolia. Buffalo. Clinton. April. 
The strings of spores sometimes adhere to each other laterally. 
Sometimes there is the appearance of a spurious or divided endo- 
chrome in the spores. (Plate 2, figs. 6-9.) 
Spu#ropsis Gate. (Spheria Gallae Schw.) 
Old galls and twigs of butternut, Juglans cinerea. Bethlehem. 
The perithecia on the galls are so crowded that they appear to the 
naked eye to form a continuous black crust. - 
SPHAROPSIS PROPULLANS. (Spheria propullans Schw.) 
Dead stems of Celastrus scandens. Greenbush. 
VERMICULARIA CONCENTRICA P: & C. n. sp. 
Perithecia small, black, beset with straight rigid bristles, concen- 
trically placed on arid orbicular spots ; spores oblong, slightly curved, 
pointed at each end, colorless, .0008—.001' long. 
