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D. Sassafras, E. & E. (in Herb.) 



Stromata cortical, gregarious and subconfluent, small (1-2 nun.), 

 pustuliform, covered by the blackened epidermis, surrounded by a 

 faint circumscribing line which does not penetrate the wood. Peri- 

 thecia 6-15 in a stroma, ovate-globose, |-| mm. diam., contents soft 

 and gelatinous when young, crowded, with very little stromatic 

 material between and over them, necks short and thick. Ostiola 

 coarse, depressed-hemispherical, black, obscurely stellate-cleft, and 

 irregularly dehiscent. Asci clavate-oblong, stipitate, 100-110 (p. sp. 

 75-80) x 10 fi) paraphyses? Sporidia numerous, allantoid, yellow in 

 the mass, not strongly curved, 6-7 x l|-2 fi. 



On dead limbs of Sassafras, Newfield, N. J. 



The outside appearance is almost exactly that of Valsaria nigro- 

 facta, C. & E. 



D. herbacea, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. Ill, p. 142. 



Stroma tuberculiform, 1-2 mm. diam., white inside, tinged with 

 yellow above, but black externally. Peri thecia ovate-globose, about 

 J mm. diam., rather abruptly contracted above into a short, narrow 

 neck, expanded at the surface of the stroma into a broad, obtuse, 

 quadrisulcate ostiolum. Asci, including the slender base, 100-120 x 

 10-12 /x: paraphyses soon disappearing. Sporidia crowded in the 

 upper half of the asci, numerous, pale yellowish, cylindrical, curved, 

 7-8 x 1-1 J (i. On the same stems was a Calosphceria with 

 scattered or suhseriate, beaked perithecia having fasciculate asci about 

 20 x 3J-4 /u, truncate above, and sporidia 3|-4| x | ju. 



On dead herbaceous stems (Ambrosia trifdaf), Louisiana (Lang- 

 lois). 



D. ramularis, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. 1. c. 



Stroma tuberculiform, 1-2 mm. diam., bursting out through longi- 

 tudinal cracks in the bark, penetrating to the wood, wmich is marked 

 with a black, circumscribing line, subtruncate above, dirty-white with- 

 in. Perithecia 4-12 in each stroma, globose, with short necks, walls 

 thick and coriaceous. Ostiola only slightly prominent, flat, 4-5-stellate- 

 cleft, finally broadly perforated. Asci broad, clavate, 90-110x12- 

 15 jut. Sporidia many, allantoid, yellowish, moderately curved, 6-10 x 



y* 



On dead branches of Lonieera Japonica, Pointe a la Hache, 

 La. (Langlois). 



