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long, oozing out and covering the spots with a white or glaucous 
bloom. 
Living leaves of Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum. Lake Pleasant. 
August. 
SeprorraA Utmi (ze. 
Elm leaves. New Baltimore. Howe. Catskill mountains. 
EXcIPULA LEUCOTRICHA 7. Sp. 
Perithecia small, scattered, the disk plane or slightly convex, orbi- 
cular, elliptical or elongated, black, surrounded by a few long septate 
whitish hairs ; spores fusiform, colorless, .0003—.0004 long. 
Dead grass leaves. West Albany. June. 
The species is well marked by the pale delicate hairs of the 
perithecium. 
DiIscELLA MACROSPERMA 1. Sp. 
Perithecia obsolete; mass of spores prominent, reddish-brown or 
blackish, pale when moist ; spores oblong, straight or slightly curved, 
often narrowed toward one end, colorless, .0013—.0016 long, .0004’ 
broad, containing a granular endochrome. 
Dead bark of willows. North Greenbush. July. 
DiscELLA PLaTAnt n. sp. 
Pustules small, erumpent, pallid; spores subelliptical or oblong, 
smooth, deciduous, colorless, .0003—.0005' long. 
Dead twigs of battonwood, Platanus occidentalis.. Bethlehem. 
May. 
The sporophores rarely remain attached to ‘the spores and these 
have no granular aspect as in D. platyspora. 
DiscetLta Kami n. sp. 
Pustules small, erumpent, at length blackish, the perithecia mostly 
deficient above and somewhat excipuliform; spores oblong-obovate, 
sometimes slightly curved, colorless, .0004—.0006' long. 
Dead stems of sheep laurel, Kalmia angustifolia. Sandlake. June. 
MELANCONIUM PALLIDUM 1. sp. 
Stroma small, yellowish; spores oozing out in a blackish mass, 
separately pallid or almost colorless, ovate or oblong, often slightly 
curved and subcymbiform, .0006—.0007’ long. 
Dead branches of Carya alba. West Troy. June. 
The species is remarkable for the pale color of the spores. These 
sometimes contain two or three large nuclei. (Plate 1, figs. 7 and 8.) 
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