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depressed, blackish-brown or black; asci very broad, varying from 
subglobose to oblong-clavate, fugacious ; spores oblong, obtuse, fenes- 
trate, slightly constricted at the center and appearing uniseptate, 
.001’-.0013' long. | 
Bark of living mountain ash, Pyrus Americanus. Buffalo. 
Clinton. May. 
Dornmea Fiuicina /7. 
Dead stems of Pieris aquilina. Center. May. 
The spores in our specimens are oblong-fusiform, triseptate, 
001.0012’ long, either with or without a ie appendage at 
each end. 
DiatryPE Smimacicona Schw. (Hypoxylon Smilacicola Howe.) 
Dead stems of Smilax. Yonkers. Howe. 
DiatTRyPE CrerHALANtTut Schw. 
Dead stems of Cephalanthus occidentalis. Buffalo. Clinton. 
July. Catskill. 
It belongs to the section Diatrypella. 
DiatryPe apusta C. & P. n. sp. 
Pustules small, slightly elevated, subconical, blackish, covered by 
the epidermis which is pierced by the very small disk; stroma white ; 
ostiola few, small, black; asci cylindrical; spores uniseriate, simple, 
elliptical, colored, .0007—.0009' long. 
Dead branches. New Baltimore. Howe. 
Vasa TRICHISPORA C. & P. n. sp. 
Small, pustulate ; stroma cortical, pale ochraceous as well as the 
erumpent disk; perithecia few, dark-brown when mature; ostiola 
exserted, quadrisulcate ; asci clavate; spores filiform, hyaline, five to 
seven-septate, .0024’ long, .0001’ broad. 
Dead twigs of oak. Greenbush. 
It looks like a miniature Valsa leiphemia. 
Vasa TuMIDULA C. & P. n. sp. 
Erumpent, piercing the elevated discolored cuticle, ultimately 
exposing the blackened disk; perithecia four to six, semi-immersed 
in the wood, circumscribed by a black line; ostiola obtuse, quadrisul- 
cate ; asci clavate; spores linear; straight or curved, obtuse, hyaline, 
.0004’—.0005' long. 
Dead branches of Crateegus. Garrisons. June. 
