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iculum thin, appressed, gray, one to two lines broad, composed of 
filaments of two kinds, one kind, coarse, branching, septate, blackish- 
brown, bearing numerous short ramuli,each of which is terminated by 
a large colored three to four-lobed spore-like body, .0006 in. to .0009 
in. long and broad, the other kind, delicate colorless, bearing narrowly 
fusiform colorless conidia; cups minute, .012 in. to .016 in. broad, 
sessile, glabrous, immarginate, waxy, whitish, subpellucid; asci enlarged 
upwards, broad and obtuse at the apex, .0015 in. to .0002 in. long; 
spores oblanceolate, crowded, .0006 in. to .0008 in. long, .0002 in. to 
.0003 in. broad, generally three or four-nucleate ; paraphyses filiform. 
Living or languishing leaves of balsam fir, Abies balsamea. Stony 
Clove, Catskill mountains. Aug. The presence of two kinds of 
filaments in the subiculum suggests the question whether both belong 
to the Peziza. In a few instances the perithecia of a sphxriaceous 
fungus were found on the subiculum, and in one case both this fungus 
and the Peziza were occupying the same patch of filaments. The 
delicate whitish filaments appear to overrun and adhere to the coarse 
brown ones as if parasitic on them. This commingling of the two gives 
the general gray hue tothe subiculum. It is probable that the delicate 
filaments belong to the Peziza and are parasitic on the other which 
‘probably belongs to the following fungus. 
Meliola balsamicola, 7. sp. (Plate 1, figs. 22-27.) Perithecia few, 
gregarious, minute, ovate or subconical, free, black, seated on a small 
blackisn-brown spot-lke subiculum; asci generally oblong, rarely 
subcylindrical and elongated; spores mostly crowded or biseriate, 
rarely uniseriate, uniseptate, colorless, .00035 in. to .00045 in. long, 
generally two to three-nucleate and one cell a little narrower than the 
other. Living or languishing leaves of balsam fir, associated with 
Peziza balsamicola. Catskill mountains. Aug. ‘The subicula on 
which this fungus occurred were a little darker colored than those 
which bore the Paziza the whitish filaments being lessabundant. From 
this it is inferred that the colored filaments are properly the subiculum 
of the Meliola. JM. ganglifera and some South African species of 
Asterina are said to have similar bodies on the threads of the subicu- 
lum. Our fungus does not fully meet the requirements of the genus 
Meliola, neither is it a good Asterina nor Dimerosporium. It needs 
further investigation. 
Hypoxylon marginatum, Schw. Oak fence posts. Albany. Sept. 
Diatrype punctulata, B.& R. White oak wood. Ithaca. Prentiss. 
The specimens are sterile, but evidently belong to this species, which, 
though first published as a Hypoxylon, was afterward described as a 
Diatrype. 
Diatrypella angulata, /r. Dead branches of ash and poplar. North 
Greenbush. Oct. 
Valsa myinda, C. & #. Dead branches of maple, Acer spicatum. 
Knowersville. Oct. 5 
Dothidea melanoplaca, Desm, Languishing or dead leaves of white 
hellebore, Veratrwm viride. Catskill and Adirondack mountains. 
July and Aug. The specimens are not in fruit; neither has it been 
found in fertile condition in Europe so far as I am informed. Pos- 
sibly it perfects its fruit in Winter or early Spring. 
