14 PLANTS BAKERIAN^:. 



OTTHIA FENDLERAECOLA, n. sp. Perithecia buried, then 

 partially erumpent, densely crowded in one or two rows and 

 bursting through the bark in long linear masses, 6 or 8 to 

 20 or more together, often flattened by mutual pressure, 

 dark brownish black, conspicuously rugose, large, J f mm., 

 ostioles, perforate, depressed; asci cylindric, about 100xl8/x,; 

 paraphyses thread like; ascospores monostichous or partly 

 distichous, light brown, fusiform, ends acutish, uniseptate, 

 not constricted, about 25x6/A. 



On dead and dry but not barkless twigs of Fendlera, at 

 Hermosa, 4 April; n. 42. 



OTTHIA DISTEGI^:, Tracy & Earle, PI. Baker, i. 29. Du- 

 rango, 20 March; n. 43, on the same host as the original 

 specimens, namely, Baker, Earle & Tracy's n. 1090. 



AMPHISPH.ERIACE.E. 



STRICKERIA AMELANCHIERIS, 11. sp. Perithecia scattered 

 or somewhat gregarious, black, smooth, thin walled, strongly 

 collapsing, about % mm, ostioles indistinctly perforate, not 

 prominent; asci clavate-cylindric, about lOOxlG/*; paraphyses 

 thread like, abundant; ascospores subdistichous, irregularly 

 oval, often curved, 5-7-septate, one or more of the medial 

 cells once vertically divided, constricted at the middle 

 septum and often slightly so at the others, somewhat flat- 

 tened, about 30-35x10x7^. 



On decorticated twigs of Amelanchier, Herrnosa, Colo., 30 

 March; n. 69. 



This is much like 8. Fendlerse externally, but it has very 

 different spores. 



STRICKERIA CERCOCARPI, n. sp. Blackening the wood; 

 perithecia with the base sunk in the matrix, scattered or 

 cespitose in clusters of 3 or 4, black, rugose, not shining, a 



