REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. Hi 
DISCELLA ARIDA 2. Sp. 
Perithecia seated on rather large arid grayish spots, minute, 
flattened, pezizeeform, black, at first covered by the epidermis, 
then forming a ring by the falling away of the center; spores 
oblong or lanceolate, simple, then uniseptate, colorless, .00035— 
.0005' long. 
Living or languishing leaves of Cassandra calyculata. , Adi- 
rondack Mts. August. 
The plant might at first sight be taken for a minute black 
Peziza. The spots usually occur on the apical half or on the 
margin of the leaf, but sometimes the whole leaf is discolored. 
MELANCONIUM INTERMEDIUM 72. SD. 
Spores very irregular, subglobose, ovate, elliptical or oblong, 
black, about .001' long. 
Dead hickory branches. Buffalo. Clinton. Greenbush. 
This species is intermediate between J/. oblongum and M. 
magnum, the spores being larger than in the former, smaller 
than in the latter. 
TORULA CURVATA 7%. SD. 
Flocci tufted, elongated, curved or flexuous, here and there 
slightly constricted, multiseptate, the cells mostly broader than 
long, the tufts forming an effused black patch. 
Dead branches of Myrica Gale. Adirondack Mts. August. 
SEPTONEMA DICHANOIDES P. & C. n. sp. 
Tufts of flocci minute, clustered in small suborbicular or 
elliptical patches, black; flocci .0003-—.0004 thick, at length 
breaking up into simple or one to two-septate oblong-elliptical 
spores. 
Living alder bark. Olean. May. Clinton. 
The patches resemble those of Dichena faginea. The 
species appears to be intermediate between Septonema and 
Torula. 
PUCCINIA ORBICULA P. & C. 
Uredo form. Spots small, orbicular, yellowish, sometimes 
tinged with purple ; sori circinating, tawny-ochraceous ; spores 
subglobose, .0008—.001' in diameter. 
Puccinia form. Sori blackish-brown, circinating, often 
arranged in a single circle on the margin of the spot; spores 
broadly elliptical, rough, .0013-.0015' long, .0008—.001’ broad. 
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