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and constricted, at length triseptate, brown, 35-38 // long. Paraphyses 

 slender, filiform. 



On the cut surface of wood, Portville, N. Y. (Peck). 



Ch. longipila, Pk. 42d Rep. p. 35. 



Perithecia gregarious or scattered, ovate, minute (150x115//), 

 clothed, especially below, with long, slender, pale hairs. Asci clavate- 

 cylindrical, p. sp. about 40x8-10 //, contracted below into a short, 

 stipe-like base, and overtopped by filiform, undulate paraphyses. Spo- 

 ridia biseriate, oblong-elliptical, 11-13x5 //, hyaline and uniseptate at 

 first, soon 3-septate, with the two central cells opake and the end cells 

 hyaline, the central septum being now scarcely discernible, and the 

 two dark, middle cells appearing like a broad, dark band across the 

 middle of the sporidium. 



On the basswood bottom of a barrel in a cellar, Long Island, N. Y. 

 (Zabriskie). 



Ch. parvicapsa, (Cke.) 



Sphceria parvicapsa* Cke. Grev. VII, p. 52. 



Chcztosphceria parvicapsa, Sacc. Syll. 3207. 



Perithecia very small, seated on a dark brown, byssoid subiculum. 

 Asci clavate-cylindrical. Sporidia elliptical, 3-septate, brown, 12-14 

 x6/i. 



On dead wood, Aiken, So. Carolina (Ravenel). 



Our specc. from Cooke are sterile. 



Ch. flavo-compta, (B. & C.) 



Sphceria flavo-compta, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 108. 

 Chatosphczria flavo-compta, Sacc. Syll. 3209. 



Perithecia ovate, black, clothed with rigid, yellow hairs. Sporidia 

 oblong, elliptical, triseptate, 20-25 a long. 



On Cyrilla, So. Carolina. 



Ch. ornata, Hark. New Cal. Fungi p. 45. Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci. No. 

 1. Feb. 1884. 



Perithecia superficial, globose, black', not rugose, 360 // diam.. 

 setae hyphoid, \ mm. or more long, black, not acuminate, occasionally 

 septate. Asci 8-spored, mucoid, clavate, with a long pedicel, 100 x 8- 

 10 /i ; paraphyses inconspicuous. Sporidia fusiform, triseptate, middle 

 cells olive brown, ultimate ones hyaline, 16x6//. 



On decaying bark of Eucalyptus, San Francisco, Cal. 



We have not seen the three species last mentioned and have only 

 copied the published diagnoses. 



