FUNGI. 33 



times oval, fmm in diameter, ostiolum elliptical or nearly 

 circular; asci cylindrical, long stipitate, 135-150x11-13^; 

 parapbyses very numerous, filiform, much longer than the 

 asci; ascospores obliquely monostichous, oval, dark-brown, 

 5-7-septate, much constricted at the middle septum, muri- 

 form, 22-24x8-9/*. 



No. 1108,on dead stems of "Sage Brush" (Artemisia, sp. ?), 

 Mancos, June 24. 



MYCOSPH;ERELLACE,E. 



MYCOSPH^RELLA COERULEA (E. & E.) Tracy & Earle. 

 (Sphserella coerulea, E. & E. Proc. Phil. Acad. 1894, n. 334.) 

 Dead stems of Aquilegia coerulea, Bob Creek, at 10,500 feet, 

 n. 1116. The dimensions are somewhat larger than those 

 given in the description, and the spores are decidedly yel- 

 lowish. We find the perithecia 120-140//., asci ovate, 

 65-75x20/x, and ascospores 25x5/x. 



MICOSPH^RELLA FENDLERI n. sp. (Sphserella). Perithecia 

 minute, scattered, solitary, at first covered by the cuticle 

 becoming slightly erumpent; asci oblong, short-stipitate, 

 40-45x1 0-1 2//,; paraphyses none ; ascospores fusiform, ob- 

 tuse, uniseptate, hyaline, slightly constricted, 15-17x3.5-4^. 



On dead stems of Thalictrum Fendleri, Bob Creek, 10,500 

 feet, June 28, n. 1091. 



MYCOSPH^ERELLA GLYCOSOM.E n. sp. (Sphserella). Spots 

 none; perithecia thickly scattered over large areas, black, 

 spherical, firm not collapsing, about 100//,; asci sessile, 

 broadly obovate, obtuse, aparaphysate, 8 spored, about 50x 

 IO/A; ascospores inordinate, narrowly ovate, larger end ob- 

 tuse, smaller end subacute, about equally uniseptate 

 hyaline, guttulate, about 16x5/*. 



Dead weather-worn stems of Glycosoma ocddentalis. Same 

 station and date with the last, n. 1047. 



