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rupturing it. Contents of the young perithecia pale orange- 
yellow at first, becoming black, 150 to 200 mw diam. Asci 
clavate-cylindrical, 45 to 60 x 8 to 10 y, short-stipitate, 
8-spored, without paraphyses. Sporidia biseriate, ovate, 
hyaline, continuous, 10 to 15 x 5 to 6 yw, subacute below. 
Quite different from P. bina, Hark., on the same host. 
The Physalospora is accompanied by a Phyllosticta 
(P. agrifolia, E. & E.), with sporules oblong-elliptical, 
5to6x2 y, and a Pestalozzia agreeing with the diagnosis 
of P. Saccardot, Speg. 
Melogramma Columbiensis, E. & E. 
On small dead limbs of some tree or shrub, British 
Columbia, May, 1893, Dr. J. Macoun. 
Stromata thickly scattered, small, about 1 mm. diam., sub- 
angular or hysteriiform, black, soon raising and rupturing 
the epidermis by which they are closely embraced and partly 
covered, mostly flattened above. Perithecia buried in the 
stroma, small, 150 to 200 yw diam., white inside. Ostiola 
minute, papilliform. Asci clavate-cylindrical, paraphysate, 
8-spored, about 100 x 12 y. Sporidia biseriate, oblong or 
clavate-oblong, hyaline, 5-septate, constricted at the middle 
septum, 18 to 20 x 6 to 7 w, sometimes one of. the inner cells 
is divided by a faint, longitudinal <A Has the habit of 
Botryosphaeria fuliginosa, 2 & N 
Montagnella abietina, E. & 
On dead fir twigs, Seattle, ais March, 1892, Miss 
Adella M. Parker. 
Erumpent superficial, cespitose. Perithecia ovate-globose, 
hard (almost sclerotoid), black and shining, about 4 mm. 
diam., connected at base by an obscure stroma. Ostioluns 
papilliform. Asci clavate-cylindrical, short stipitate, para- 
physate, 8-spored, 75 to 80 x 10 y. Sporidia biseriate, 
oblong-fusoid, yellowish-hyaline, 3-septate and slightly con- 
Stricted, 15 to 20 x 5 to 6 y. 
Peziza (Dasyscypha) Gaultherix, E. 
On living leaves of Gaultheria pee ace Wash., 
Sept., 1892, Adélla M. Parker, No. 160. 
