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*#* Mostly on herbaceous steins; sporidia 5- or more-septate. 

 L. stictostoma, (B. & C.) 



Sphceria stictostoma, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 151. 

 Leptosphceria stictostoma, Sacc. Syll. 3162. 

 Heptameria stictostoma, Cke. Syn. 4952. 



Perithecia covered by the cuticle, causing little corresponding 

 prominences pierced by the ostiola, at length free, subcorneal. Asci 

 oblong. Sporidia biseriate, cymbiform, 5-septate, constricted at the 

 <epta, 20 /jl long. 



On some herbaceous plant, Connecticut. 



L. stictoides, (B. & (.) 



Sphczria stictoides, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 149, # 



Leptosphceria stictoides, Sacc. Syll. 31 71. 

 Heptameria stictoides, Cke. Syn. 4961. 



Forming little irregular, depressed spicules surrounded by the 

 cuticle. Sporidia nearly biconical, one division larger than the other, 

 5-septate, constricted at the middle septum. No measurements given. 



On Liriodendron, North Carolina. 



L. Vahlii, Rostr. Fungi Gronl. p. 557 (No. 162). 



Hyphae pale brown, with short, inflated joints. Perithecia de- 

 pressed-spherical, umbilicate, papillate. Asci numerous, elongated- 

 clavate, long-pedicellate, 90-100 x 11-13 p, with copious, filiform par- 

 aphyses. Sporidia biseriate, cymbiform-fusoid, dark, 5-septate, 20-25 

 x 6-7 /i, cells 1-2-nucleate. 



On dry stems of Melandrium triflorum, collected by Vahl, at 

 Umanak, Greenland. 



L. striata, Winter, Hedwigia 1872, p. 140. 



Perithecia membranaceous, globose, with a small ostiolum, some- 

 what wrinkled, brown. Asci elongated-oblong, sessile, 8-spored, 90 x 

 1 2 /jt, with simple, filiform paraphyses longer than the asci. Sporidia 

 1'usoid, 5-septate, each cell with a large oil globule, greenish, the epis- 

 pore marked with longitudinal stripes, 35 x 5 p. 



On stems of Veronica alpina, Greenland. 



L. Bocconise, (C. & E.) 



Sphceria Bocconicz, C. & E. Grev. VII, p. 10, 

 Leptosphceria Bocconicz, Sacc. Syll. 2901. 

 Heptameria Bocconice, Cke. Syn. 4703. 

 Exsicc. EH. N. A. F. 586. 



Perithecia scattered, buried and, when the epidermis falls away. 

 with the rounded apex projecting, membranaceous, subglobose, brown- 

 ish-black. Asci clavate, 75 x 12 jjl, paraphysate. Sporidia biseriate. 



