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NEW WEST AMERICAN FUNGL 
By J. B. Exxtis anp B. M. Evernarr. 
Nectria i a erlang KE. & E. 
On dead fir twigs. Seattle, March, 1892, Miss Adella 
M. Parker. 
Stroma cytisporoid, subcuticular, convex, unicellular, olive- 
gray with a white center, raising the epidermis in distinct 
pustules, and filled with ovate, dark brown, 2-nucleate 
stylospores 8 to 10x4to5 y. Perithecia 3 to 8, originat- 
ing in the white central part of the stroma, but soon cespitos 
erumpent and superficial, ovate, bright red, about 4 mm. 
diameter, perforated above. Asci cylindrical, short-stipitate, 
p. sp. about 60x 6 1, without paraphyses, 8-spored. Sporidia 
uniseriate, hyaline, ceeepet. not constricted, narrow-ellip- 
tical, 7 to8 x 8 to4 u. 
Resembles NV. cucurbitula (Tode), but distinguished by 
its oe stylospores and its smaller asci and 
sporidi 
fescue, dichroospora, E. & 
On clay loam in woods, Seattle, ih April, 1892, Chas. 
V. Piper, No. 170, about 1 mm. diam. 
Perithecia densely gregarious, ovate, rugose, black, tough- 
membranaceous, clothed with a few slender brown hairs. 
Ostiolum broad conyex-papilliform, sometimes sub-com- 
pressed. Asci lanceolate, 150 x 8 to 10 u, p. sp. 100 to 120 y 
long, paraphysate, 8-spored. Sporidia biseriate, cylindrical, 
bent near the lower end, and hyaline below, for about } the 
length of the sporidium, abruptly black above, each end 
mucronately pointed, about 40 x 4 w. 
A well marked and curious species. The base of the 
perithecia is sunk in the soil, with the upper half or more 
free, 
Rosellinia pulcherrima, E. & E. 
On a piece of fir bark partly covered with earth, Seattle, 
Wash., Sept., 18, 1892, Adella M. Parker, No. 1 
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