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Old bones in damp places. Albany. May. 
‘he bright red color of the tufts readily attract the attention. 
The spores are flattened, and when viewed edgewise appear nar- 
rowly elliptical. The asci are produced upon short branches of 
the filaments and frequently form dense clusters or masses. I 
have seen no evidence of a perithecium, and indeed the asci are 
thin and somewhat fugacious, and from the crowding of the 
spores are with difficulty seen. I have not been able to detect 
with certainty more than six spores in an ascus, though probably 
there are eight in some Cases. 
By the absence of a perithecium, or receptacle, this fungus is 
related to Ascomyces and kindred genera, but its whole character 
otherwise is very different. In its habitatit is related to Onygena, 
the species of which affect animal substances, but it forms no 
definite head or peridium. It also presents some analogies with 
other genera, but with none does it seem to agree in all respects. 
I am disposed, however, to regard it as belonging to the Onygenei, 
notwithstanding the absence of a definite peridium. 
VALSA (CRYPTOSPORA) TOMENTELLA, 2. sp. 
Perithecia four to eight, subcircinate, nestling. in the inner 
bark, black, clothed below with a whitish tomentum, disk lan- 
ceolate, whitish or brownish, erumpent through a narrow trans- 
verse chink which is acute at each end, pierced by the smooth 
black ostiola; asci oblong, broad, subcylindrical to fusiform, ses- 
sile, .002'’— .003’ long; spores cylindrical, crowded, colorless, 
more or less curved, obtuse at the ends, usually multinucleate, 
.002'— .0027' long, .00016’— .0002’ broad. 
Bark of white birch, Betula populifolia. West Albany. May. 
This species is related to V. cinctula, but the peculiar charac- 
ter of the disk and the whitish tomentum that invests the base 
of the perithecia afford available characters by which to separate 
it from that and other allied species. 
SPHAERIA PETIOLOPHILA, 2. Sp. 
Perithecia minute, scattered, covered by the epidermis which is 
pierced by the prominently papillate or short rostrate ostiola, de- 
pressed-globose, black; asci narrow, subcylindrical, .0016’— .0018" 
long ; spores narrowly fusiform, pointed at each end, colorless, 
biseriate, .0005’'—.0006’ long; about .00008’ broad, sometimes con- 
taining three or four nucleoli. 
Petioles of fallen leaves of mountain maple, Acer spicatum. 
Helderberg mountains. May. 
This species belongs to the modern genus Gnomonia, section 
