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center, and there united in an erumpent disk. Asci racemose-fascicu- 

 late, with a short but slender base, p. sp. about 18-20 x4 /i, 8-spored. 

 Paraphyses very long, lanceolate, evanescent. Sporidia allantoid, not 

 strongly curved, 4-5 x|//. 



On dead limbs of Ilex opaca, Newfield, N. J. 



The epidermis is ruptured and pustuliform-elevated, and when 

 this is stripped off. the clusters of perithecia are exposed, seated on the 

 surface of the inner bark. The surface of the wood beneath the clus- 

 ters is marked with a slight circumscribing line. 



Cal. alnicola, E. & E. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. July, 1890, p. 

 221. 



Subcuticular. Perithecia scattered, subglobose, J mm. diam., 

 roughish, seated on the surface of the inner bark, at length slightly 

 collapsed above. Ostiola short-cylindrical, slightly raising and barely 

 perforating the epidermis. Asci racemose-fasciculate, clavate-oblong, 

 20-22 x 3 J-4 ft, 8-spored, the upper end of the spore-mass truncate, 

 and surmounted by the empty, transparent, dome-shaped apex of the 

 asci. Sporidia crowded-biseriate, allantoid, curved, 5-6 x 1 //. When 

 the epidermis is peeled off, the perithecia either adhere to it or remain 

 attached to the surface of the inner bark, in which respect this differs 

 from Cryptosphceria secreta, C. & E., in which the perithecia always 

 adhere to the epidermis. This latter species also has longer, distinctly 

 clavate asci, with a long, slender base, and longer sporidia, and is, we 

 believe, specifically distinct from the species on alder, though- much 

 resembling it. 



On dead alder, Newfield, N. J. 



Cal. fagicola, (E. & E.) 



Valsafagicola, E. & E. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, X, p. 118. 



Perithecia 10-15, globose, membranaceous, black and shining in- 

 side, circinating in the surface of the inner bark, and covered with a 

 dirty yellow powder, collapsing more or less when dry, abruptly con- 

 tracted into slender necks \-\ mm. long, decumbent and converging 

 to the center, with their ostiola erumpent in a small, black, slightly 

 elevated disk, obtusely conical, at length with a rather broad, irregular 

 opening. Asci (p. sp.) 18-20x3//, racemose-fasciculate, 8-spored, at 

 first with a rounded, hyaline apex which -soon disappears, leaving 

 them truncate above. Sporidia biseriate, allantoid, hyaline, curved, 

 2J-3I x J-j //. 



On dead limbs of Fagus ferruginea, West Chester, Pa. (Ever- 

 hart & Haines). 



