102 THIRTY-EIGHTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. 
Sphzrotheca pannosa, Lev. 
Living leaves of wild rose, Rosa parviflora Ehrh. West Albany. Aug. 
Microspheria Nemopanthis, 2. sp. 
Mycelium arachnoid, thin, amphigenous; appendages few, five to 
twelve, equal to or a little longer than the diameter of the perithecia, 
terminally four or five times dichotomous, colored, sometimes forked 
near the base, the ultimate ramuli recurved; asci about four; spores six 
to eight. 
Living leaves of Nemopanthes Canadensis. Karner. Sept. 
The species is apparently allied to M/. Berberidis, from which it is 
separated because of its fewer asci and colored appendages. 
Capnodium Citri, B. & D. 
On oranges, Albany. Not ascigerous. Introduced with the fruit 
which it inhabits. 
Asterina nuda, x. sp. 
Plate 2, figs. 11-15. 
Perithecia numerous, closely gregarious or crowded, superficial and 
naked or with a few short obscure radiating filaments at the base, globose 
or subdepressed, .003 to .004 in. broad, black ; asci oblong or subcylin- 
drical, .oo16 in. long, .coo5 broad; spores crowded or biseriate, oblong, 
uniseptate, colorless, .oo04 to .0005 in. long, .o002 to .ooo25 broad. 
Dead leaves of balsam fir, Abies balsamea. Adirondack mountains. 
June. 
Externally this species resembles Sacidiwm Pini, but its fruit is very 
different. The perithecia are generally arranged in three linear patches, 
one along the middle of the upper surface of the leaf and two on the 
lower surface, one on each side of the midvein. They are less numerous 
on the upper surface than on the lower, and are sometimes entirely 
absent there. The radiating mycelioid filaments are not always present, 
and but for the superficial perithecia the species might easily be referred 
to the genus Spherella. The bilocular colorless spores indicate the 
section Asterella. 
Valsa pauperata, C. & F. 
Dead bark of maple, Acer rubrum. Karner. June. 
In our specimens it is not uncommon to find a half dozen perithecia 
in one pustule, although in the typical form there are but two or three. 
A whitish or pale-grayish pulverulent disk often exists, which is at 
length obliterated by the black ostiola. The spores are .00064 to .0008 
in. long, .oo02 to .o0025 broad, which is somewhat larger than the di- 
mensions given in the description of V. pauperata, nevertheless we 
think our specimens are only a form or perhaps a variety of that species. 
The pustules are often arranged in long flexuous lines as in the type. 
Valsa cornina, 2. sp. 
Pustules small, scattered, at first covered by the epidermis, which is 
at length longitudinally ruptured; perithecia two to five in a pustule, 
