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yellow, obovate-oblong, constantly 3-septate, constricted at the septa, 

 the second cell thicker, 20 x 5 fi. 



On dead herbaceous stems, Bethlehem, Pa. (Schw.). 



Page 405. After Massaria Gerardi, insert the two following 



M. fcedans, (Fr.) 



Sphceria fcedans, Fr. S. M. II, p. 480. 

 ' Sphceria amblyospora, B. & Br. Ann. Nat. Hist. No. 627, tab. 10, fig. 10. 

 Massaria fcedans, Fr. Summa Veg. Sc. p. 396. 

 Exsicc. Rab. F. E. 41, 257. Rehm Asc. 437. Thum. M. U. 2061. Sydow, M. March. 350. 



"Scattered, scarcely visible externally. Asci large, clavate. 

 Paraphyses flexuous. Sporidia large, at first hyaline, consisting of 

 two subcorneal articulations placed base to base; one of these gradu- 

 ally increases in diameter and becomes very obtuse; a septum is then 

 formed at the base of the smaller articulation, and sometimes, though 

 rarely, there is a septum in the other cell. In every stage except in 

 extreme age, they have a gelatinous coat. Distinguished from M. in- 

 quinans by the peculiar form of the sporidia, and especially in their 

 mode of formation." (Sporidia 48-54 x 19-23 ft, Winter). 



On dead branches, Carolina and Pennsylvania (Schw.). 



Diagnosis from Cke. Hndbk. 



M. piipula, (Fr.) 



Spkariapupula, Fr. S. M. II, p. 484. 

 Massaria pupula, Tul. Sel. Carp. II, p. 225. 

 Exsicc. Kze. F. Sel. 93. Rab. F. E. 543, 19 28 Rehm Asc. 187. Sydow, M. March. 2162. 



Scattered. Perithecia covered, depressed, concentrically striate, 

 black, mouth denuded, whitish, with a yellow papilla. Asci oblong. 

 8-spored, 180x96 ju, with branching paraphyses. Sporidia subbi- 

 seriate, oblong-clavate, 3-septate, brown, with a didymous, hyaline 

 coat, 54-58 x 1 6-1 8 ju>. Conidial stage, Steganosporium pyriforme, Cda. 



Under the epidermis of Platanus, Pennsylvania (Schw.). 



Page 406. After Massaria scoriadea, insert 

 ENCHNOA, Fr. 



Summa Veg. Scand. p. 410. 



Perithecia scattered or gregarious, covered by the bark, thin, 

 fragile, seated on or enveloped in a dense, brown tomentum, connate 

 with the epidermis which is pierced by the punctiform vertex. Asci 

 cylindric-clavate, 8-spored. Sporidia cylindrical, guttulate, hyaline or 

 olivaceous, Ramicolous. 



