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into a stout, conical beak opening by a single round pore at 

 the apex. Sporules oblong or allantoid, hyaline, 5 to 7 x 

 1.25 p. 



C. - - sp. 



On Chionanthus Virgimca, March 28, 1894 (Nuttall, 

 1455, 427). 



C. TUMULOSA E. & E. Bull. Torr. Club, 24:288 (1897). 



Stroma cylindric-conical, erumpent, brown, lighter inside, 

 about i mm. broad, the upper erumpent part .75 mm. high, 

 sporigerous cells perithecioid, whitish, globose, sunk in the 

 lower part of the stroma;- Sporules allantoid, hyaline, curved, 

 6-8 x 1.5 fji. 



On dead buds of Magnolia Fraseri. Fayette: near Nut- 

 tallburg, March, 1896 (Nuttall, 808). 

 C. PERSICAE Schw. 



On Amygdalus Persica cult. "Early Rivers," June 30, 



1893 (Nuttall, 1106). 

 C. - sp. 



On Cercis Canadensis, April 10, 1894 (Nuttall, 1471, 

 447). Spores 5 to 6 x .75 ^. 

 C. RHOINA Fr. 



On Rhus hirta, June 20, 1894. Sporules 5 to 8 /A. (Nut- 

 tall, 1551, 636). 

 C. CARYIGENA E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 1894, 359. 



TYPE HABITAT: On dead limbs Hicoria ovata, May 31, 



1894 (Nuttall, discov. 1524, 513). 



Stroma cortical, convex. 1.5 to 2 mm. diameter, slaty- 

 black, 4 to 6-celled, cells yellowish-white, subglobose, small. 

 Sporules allantoid, hyaline 3.5 to 4.5 x .75 to I ju. 



(Spermogonia of Valsa caryigena, B. & C.) ? 

 C. RHOIS-HIRTAE Nuttall, Field Mus. Bot., 1:112 (1896). 



On Rhus hirta, June 10, 1894 (Nuttall, 1533, 635). 



The form is clearly distinct from C. Rhoinct Fr. Cirrus 

 reddish yellow. Perithecia very prominent. Spores 8 to 

 10 x 2 to 2.5 /A. 

 C. SASSAFRAS E. & E. Field Mus. Bot., 1:112 (1896). 



TYPE HABITAT : On fire-killed twigs of Sassafras Sassa- 

 fras, Dec. 20, 1894 (Nuttall, discov. 1766, 666). Jamaica, 

 Long Island (F. C. Stewart). 



Stromata thickly scattered, conical, rising from an or- 

 bicular base about i mm. diameter, the black, shining apices 

 erumpent and roughening the bark, at first multilocular, 

 becoming unilocular. Sporules allantoid, hyaline, only 

 slightly curved, 4 to 5 x i //, borne on simple, straight basidia 

 about 12 ju long. 



