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80 FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT ON THE 
Geaster Scheefferi, Vit. 
Woods. Catskill mountains. September. ; 
The interior stratum of the external peridium is very thick in the 
fresh plant and conceals the short pedicel of the inner peridium, but 
in the dried state this stratum contracts and exposes the pedicel, 
which is about one line long. This character distinguishes the species 
from G. rufescens. 
Geaster vittatus, Aalchb. 
Under pine trees. Catskill mountains. September. 
The thin outer coat of the external peridium cracks in parallel 
lines, causing the laciniae or rays to appear as if striped with ~white 
longitudinal lines. This character gives name to the species and 
serves to distinguish itfrom G. saccatus to which it is otherwise very 
closely related. 
Spheeropsis carpinea, Sacc. d& Br. 
Dead twigs of water beech, Carpinus Americana.. Menands. May. 
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Cercospora Gentiane, 2. sp. 
Spots suborbicular, brown or reddish-brown, sometimes confluent ; 
hyphe amphigenous, short, subflexuous, slightly colored,..0006 to 
.0012 in. long, growing from minute blackish tubercles ; spores more 
narrow than the hyphe, cylindrical or gradually narrowed toward one 
end, one to three-septate, colorless, .0012 to .0024 in. long. 
Living leaves of gentian, Gentiana linearis. Number Four, Adiron- 
dack mountains. July. 
Oospera Cucumeris, n. sp. 
Tufts loose, subconfluent, whitish or grayish, forming soft, velvety 
patches ; hyphe erect or diverging; spores catenulate, elliptical or 
oblong, colorless, .0004 to .0008 in. long, .00025 to .0003 broad. 
Decaying fruit of muskmelon, Cucumis Melo. Menands. October. 
; Sporendonema myophilum, Suace. in liti. 
Hyphe colorless, simple or branched, densely interwoven and form- 
ing a soft whitish somewhat waxy mass, some of them producing 
chains of globose or broadly-elliptical spores, .00016 to .0003 in, long. 
Inhabiting the bodies of living mice. Binghamton. H. L. Griffis. 
In the specimen contributed by Mr. Griffis the fungus had broken 
the skin of the mouse near the eyes, and also on the left shoulder. In 
the latter place the white patch was about six lines broad, and the 
ruptured margin of the skin had in some parts a bloody appearance. 
The mouse was said to be alive when caught, but it is quite probable 
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