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Clavaria muscoides L. var. obtusa n. var. 



Tips of the ultimate branches obtuse. Otherwise like the type. 

 Under cedar trees. Canada. September. Macoun. 



Hypochnus subviolaceus n. sp. 



Effused, very thin, floccose-membranaceous, adnate, violet- 

 gray, whitish on the margin ; spores subglobose, nearly hyaline, 

 .0002 to ."0024 in. broad. 



Dead decorticated wood. Canada. September. Macoun. 



Leptothyrium Spartinse n. sp. 



Perithecia minute, depressed, suborbicular elliptical or oblong, 

 sometimes subconfluent m series, rugulose, black, brownish on the 

 margin, easily separable from the matrix; spores narrowly ellip- 

 tical, subacute, hyaline, .0005 to ..0006 in. long, .0002 to .0003 

 broad, usually containing a single large nucleus, adorned with a 

 filiform appendage at each end. 



Dead stems of Spartina juncea. Biloxi, Mississippi. Septem- 

 ber. IS'umber 1835. S. M. Tracy. 



This is a very distinct species and one that departs from the 

 usual characters of the members of the genus, in its large spores 

 and their filiform appendages. These are sometimes longer than 

 the spore itself. The thin margins of the perithecia have a radi- 

 ate structure. 



Ceratium hydnoides A. c& S. var. ramosissimum n. var. 



Stromata very numerous, forming patches and dividing above 

 into exceedingly numerous slender snow-white branches which 

 interlace with each other and with those of neighboring stromata 

 and thus form continuous masses. 



Yar. subreticulatum n. var. Stromata creeping or ascending, 

 pure white, sparingly branched and uniting with each other in a 

 somewhat reticulate manner. 



Both varieties grow on soft much decayed wood. They have 

 a very different appearance but the character of the spores is the 

 same in both and indicates a merely varietal difference. 



Canada. Macoun. 



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