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cylindrical, or oblong-clavate, -003’---0045' long, about -00082" 
broad ; spores filiform, variously curved, sometimes multinucleate, 
-0016'—-003' long. 
Dead stems and branches of mountain holly, Nemopanthes 
Canadensis. Grafton, Rensselaer county. July. 
The tufts are erumpent and quite prominent. They vary much 
in size, but are generally one to two lines broad. The receptacles 
are so closely crowded that the disk is often angular from mutual 
pressure. ‘The species is similar in its appearance to T7ympanis 
alnea. 
CENANGIUM BETULINUM, 12. sp. 
Receptacles cxspitose or subseriate, erumpent through short 
transverse chinks in the bark, at first spheriiform, then open, 
black, the disk nearly plane, slightly margined, often irregular 
from mutual pressure, -007'—-014' broad; asci oblong or sub- 
clavate, -0016’ long, about -0004! broad ; spores crowded, oblong, 
obtuse, slightly colored, triseptate, -0004'—-0005’ long, about 
-00016' broad. 
Dead bark of white birch, Betula populifolia. Ceénter. May. 
This species differs from C. seriatum, which also occurs on 
birch, in its small size, smaller tufts, which usually contain five 
_ to ten plants, and in its septate spores. 
( TRIBLIDIUM CLAVZSPORUM, 2. 7), 
Receptacles, when moist, suborbicular, plane or slightly convex, 
margined, -03’—-04' broad, black, when dry more or less con- 
tracted, hysteriiform, with thick labiew; asci clavate or cylindrical, 
-0035'—--0045' long ; spores oblong-clavate, crowded or biseriate, 
colored, four-septate, -0009'—-0011' long, -0003'—-0004' broad. 
Decorticated wood of willows, Salix nigra. Albany. July. / 
ASCOMYCES DEFORMANS, Berk. a 
Living leaves of peach trees. Sandlake. 
GYMNASCELLA, gen. nov. 
Perithecia wanting ; asci numerous, subglobose, produced upon 
or among slender, branching filaments. 
Externally this fungus has the aspect of species of Sporotrichum, 
but the spores are produced in asci. 
GYMNASCELLA AURANTIACA, 7. Sp. 
Filaments slender, branched, intricate, colored, forming minute 
subconfluent bright-orange or scarlet-colored tufts; asci numerous, 
subglobose, produced among the filaments, -0004'—-0006’ long ; 
spores orbicular, -00016’—-0002’ broad, crowded in the ascus, 
colorless, generally uninucleate. 
