58 Turrty-FourtTH ANNUAL Report oF THE 
Spheeria callista, B. & R. Bark of mountain maple bush, Acer spica- 
tum. Catskill mountains. This fungus should be referred to the 
genus Chilonectria. The perithecia, which are seated on a brown to- 
mentum or subiculum, are blackish and membranous and at length 
collapse or become saucer-shaped. ‘The asci contain numerous allan- 
toid hyaline spores, .0003 in. long. 
In the preceding pages, names added to the station of a plant in- 
dicate the collector or contributor. When no name is added the plant 
was collected by the writer. Dates signify the time when the speci- 
mens were collected, and indicate, to some extent, the time of the oc- 
currence of the plant. 
Grateful acknowledgments are rendered to those botanists whose 
names appear in the preceding pages. They have kindly co-operated 
with me and generously contributed desired specimens. 
Respectfully submitted, : 
CHARLES H. PECK. 
ALBANY, January 6, 1881. 
