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cularibus, convexis, 1.3-1.5 mm. diam., intus Hgneo-pallidis ; peri- 

 theciis 10-20, globosis v. mutua pressione irregularibus, 200-250 /* 

 diam., monostichis, ostiolis breve cylindraceis, parum emergentibus, 

 apice rotundatis ; ascis fusoideo-clavatis, apice obtusis, deorsum 

 tenuatis, 80-90 x 11-13^5 octosporis ; sporidiis distichis, obovatis, 

 14-17 X 555 (*> infra medium septatis, non constrictis, farctis, hya- 

 linis et initio strato mucoso inaaquali obductis, articulo superiore fere 

 duplo majore. 



Yakutat Bay (Trelease, 684^, on decorticated dead branches of 

 Cory lust), 



Etsi matrix non certa, species videtur distinguenda ob sporidia 

 eximie anisomera. 

 Diaporthe (Tetrastaga) pungens Nitschke. 



Sitka (Trelease, 7280;, on twigs of Ribes, associated with Rhyn- 

 chophoma). 



Forma ostiolis brevius exertis. 



Venturia circinans (Fries) Saccardo. 



Virgin Bay (Trelease, 746, on living leaves of Geranium erianthum, 

 immature) . 



Venturia kunzei Saccardo. 

 Coleroa ch&tomium. 



Prince William Sound (Trelease, 748) ; Yakutat Bay (Trelease, 

 749) . On leaves of Rubus. 

 Venturia kunzei ramicola Saccardo & Scalia, var. nov. (pi. iv, fig. 8.) 



A typo differt peritheciis ramicolis in crusta stromatica (propria?) 

 nascentibus. 



Unalaska (Harrington in 1871-2, on branches of Rubus stellatus}. 



Sphaerella leptospora Saccardo & Scalia, sp. nov. (pi. iv, fig. 7.) 



Peritheciis sparsis, globulosis, primo immersis dein liberis, 220- 

 275^1 diam., poro pertusis, contextu parenchymatico, fuligineo ; ascis 

 cylindraceis, rectis v. curvulis, brevissime stipitatis, 50-60x7.5-9^; 

 sporidiis octonis, distichis, fusiformibus, rectis, medio I -septatis, non 

 constrictis, 13-15.5x2.5-3^, hyalinis, ssepe guttulatis. 



Yes Bay (Howell, on leaves of Carex mertensiana, 1693). 

 Affinis S. perexiguce, sed perithecia multo ampliora, asci longiores 

 et angustiores. 



Sphaerella eriophila Niessl. 



St. Lawrence Bay (Liitk. Exped., on dead leaves of Artemisia 

 glomerata or A. heterophylla} . 



