when dry, contracted above into short necks, terminated by small, 

 globose ostiola, subseriately arranged and erumpent through a small 

 crack in the bark. Asci (p. sp.) 80-85x15 p.. Sporidia biseriate, 

 oblong-elliptical, hyaline, faintly subglobose-appendiculate and granu- 

 lar at first, becoming brown and 2-septate, and slightly constricted at 

 the septa, 25-30 x 10-14 /i. Pycnidia central, bearing cylindrical 3- 

 septate, hyaline stylospores, 40-55 x 10-12 //, on short basidia. 



On bark of dead Acer spicatum, London, Canada (Dearness). 



The drawing was made from a young specimen and does not show 

 the two septa in the sporidia. The appendages also were accidentally 

 omitted. They are very obscure and easily overlooked. 



Ps. lanciformis, (Fr.) 



Sphczria lanciformis, Fr. S. M. II, p. 362. 

 Sphczria quercina, b. A. & S. Consp. p. 11 (sec. Fr.). 

 Sphczria Betulcz, Schum. Enum. Plant. Ssell. II, p. 171. 

 Sphczria cincta, DC. Fl. Fr. VI, p. 119. 

 Sphczria melasperma, Fr. S. M. II, p. 389 (sec. Tul.). 

 Diatrype lanciformis, Fr. Summa, p. 385. 



Sphczria favacea, Tul. in Compts. Rend. torn. XXXII, p. 472 and 474, 

 Melanconis lanciformis, Tul. Sel. Carp. II, p. 135, tab. XIV. 

 Pseudovalsa lanciformis, Ces. & De Not. Schema Sfer. p. 32. 

 Melanconis elliptica, Pk. 25th Rep. p. 102, 28th Rep. p. 87. 

 Fxsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 1996. Rab. F. F,. 248, 1258, 1438. Rehm Asc. 584. Thum. M. U. 

 1551. Sydow, M. March. 752. 



Stromata scattered, buried, erumpent through transverse cracks 

 in the bark, dark brown or black above, brownish inside, laterally 

 compressed ' so as to become lanceolate, not rising much above the 

 bark, of carnose-suberose consistence, 1-3 mm. long. Perithecia 4-10 

 in a stroma, irregularly crowded, globose, black, rather large \ (mm.), 

 necks cylindrical, with their ostiola only slightly projecting through 

 the lance-shaped disk. Asci oblong-cylindrical, narrowed below, 8- 

 spored, 150-160 x 26-28 fi. Sporidia biseriate, oblong, ends broadly 

 rounded, 3-6-septate, with a large nucleus in each cell, not constricted 

 at the septa, brown, straight, 35-48 x 12 -15 fj.. Paraphyses very 

 long, filiform. 



On dead limbs of birch, Bethlehem, Pa. (Schw.), New York (Peck). 



Ps. Fairmani, E. & E. Proc. Roch. Acad. 1890, p. 51, Plate 3, figs. 

 1, 2, 3, 10, 11. 



Stromata convex-pulvinate, 1-1| mm. diam., formed of the slightly 

 altered substance of the inner bark, the surface only subcarbonized 

 and blackened, not surrounded by any distinct circumscribing line, 

 covered by the epidermis, which is pierced by the stout, short-cylin- 

 drical or conical ostiola with smooth or quadrisulcate tips. Perithecia 



