515 



Gregarious, semiimmersed. Perithecia ovate, black, small, less 

 than \ mm. diam., raising the epidermis into minute, thickly scattered 

 pustules ruptured above by the slightly erumpent, conical ostiola. 

 Asci clavate. Sporidia allantoid, hyaline, 10 // long. Stylospores in 

 distinct perithecia with longer necks, minute, straight, linear, 5 a long. 



On dead branches of V actinium corymbosum, Newfield, N. J. 



This is a very unsatisfactory thing, for though not uncommon, we 

 have never found it mature. 



Cr. inordinata, (B. & C.) 



Sphczria inordinata, B. & C. Grev. jIV, p. 146. 

 Cryptospfueria inordinata, Sacc. Syll. 686, Cke. Syn. 4078. 



"Covered by the cuticle which is raised by the subjacent peri- 

 thecia into little prominences which make the whole surface like a 

 rasp. Asci clavate. Sporidia sausage-shaped." 



On Rosa laevigata, Carolina. 



CRYPTO VALSA, Ces. & De Not 



Schema. Sfer. p. 29. 



Stroma effused or subvalsoid, cortical, but sometimes lignicolous. 

 more or less blackened within. Perithecia immersed, irregularly scat- 

 tered or subvalsiform-aggregated, ostiola scarcely exserted. Asci 

 polysporous, aparaphysate. Sporidia allantoid, yellowish-hyaline. 

 Spermogonia, when present, cytisporoid. 



Cr. sparsa, E. & E. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. July, 1890, p. 224. 



Perithecia with thick, coriaceous walls, black and shining inside, 

 |-| mm. diam., buried in the inner bark, either scattered singly or 

 oftener in valsoid groups of 3-4, faintly circumscribed, and the bark 

 around and under them more or less blackened, each cluster or single 

 perithecium raising the bark into a little pustule closely embraced by 

 the sublaciniately ruptured epidermis, attenuated above into short 

 necks terminating in more or less distinctly quadrisulcate ostiola erum- 

 pent in a small, pustuliform disk, but scarcely projecting. Asci polys] <- 

 rous, p. sp. 40-50 x 8-10 /x or, including the slender base, 70-75 /' 

 long. Sporidia allantoid, yellowish, moderately curved, with a nucleus 

 in each end, 6-7 x \\ it. 



On dead oak limbs, Louisiana (Langlois). 



In the original diagnosis '-p. sp.'' should have been omitted, and. 

 on a reexamination, we find no definite paraphyses. 



