220 



Asci obovate, 65-75x15-20 ft (p. sp. 40-50 x 15-20 p), without pai 

 aphyses. Sporidia crowded, elliptical, 16-20x8-10 p., about 5-sej 

 tatc with a more or less perfect longitudinal septum, greenish 

 olivaceous brown. 



On decorticated oak limbs lying on the ground, and on the bark 

 from which the epidermis had fallen off, Newfield, N. J., May, 1890. 



Teich. microloncha, (B. & C.) 



Spharia microloncha, B. & C. Grev. IV. p. 144. 

 Pleosphccria microloncha , Sacc. Syll. 3926. 



Perithecia scattered, superficial, ovate, with a short neck, sprin- 

 kled with short setse. Asci clavate. Sporidia biseriate, with about 

 four horizontal septa and a few oblique or vertical ones. 



On the inside of bark of Liriodendr on, South Carolina. 



The following species, reported by Sehweinitz as having been 

 found in this country, have not been met with here since his time. 



Sphceria notha, Fr. S. M. II, p. 458. (Sphceria abnor?nis 7 Schw. 

 Syn. Car. 23-5). Crowded, broadly effused, black. Perithecia cylin- 

 drical, very small, shining, with a large pezizoid ostiolum. 



On fallen wood, Carolina. 



Sphmria nigro-brtmnea, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1563. Perithecia 

 scattered, dark brown, on dark brown spots, ovate, rugose, attenuated 

 into an indistinct ostiolum, some very large mixed with smaller ones, 

 at length often collapsing. At first partly covered by the fibers of 

 the wood, but finally bare. 



On decorticated posts of Itobinia, Bethlehem, Pa. 



Sphceria Hydrangcce, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1562. Perithecia 

 scattered, seated on the epidermis, depressed-globose, black, at length 

 collapsing, with a persistent, papilliform ostiolum. On the same limbs 

 are found other perithecia, apparently not specifically distinct, but 

 erumpent from the inner bark, with ostiola one-third as large as the 

 perithecia themselves, the flattened orifice piercing the epidermis, but 

 otherwise entirely covered. 



Rare, on dead limbs of Hydrangea, Bethlehem, Pa. (Schw.) 



Sphceria aggregata, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1561. Perithecia twice 

 as large as in Sphceria transversalis, densely crowded, but not con- 

 fluent, flattened-globose, rather smooth, brown-black, generally ash- 

 color around the short-cylindrical or conical, deciduous ostiolum. 



On very rotten wood, in extensive patches. Rare. Bethlehem, Pa. 



Sphceria inconstans, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1564. Larger than 



