26 PLANTS BAKERIAN^E. 



subhyaline tip; disc waxy, bright yellowish orange; asci 8- 

 spored, clavate, obtuse, nearly sessile, about 50x6/x, ex- 

 ceeded by the numerous ascicular yellowish minutely 

 guttulate sharp-pointed apophyses, these measuring about 

 60x2/x; ascospores monoetichous or partly distichous, hyal- 

 ine, continuous, oval, about 6x4/x,. 



Very common on dead bark of PiceaEnglemannii at 10,500 

 feet in Bob Creek, 3 July, n. 1058. 



PATELLARIACE^E. 



PATINELLA CRANDALLII, Sacc. Syll. xi. 434. At Little 

 Kate 'Mine, La Plata Mts., on dead stems of Sieversia tur- 

 binata, at 12,000 feet, 14 July, n. 1100. An elegant little 

 species, often occurring, on the dead and dry calyxes of the 

 preceding year, of the rosaceous host named. 



ERYSIBACE.E. 



ERYSIBE CICHORACEARUM DC. Fl. Fr. ii. 274. No. 1081, 

 on Merten&ia, Mancos, June 23. 



ERYSIBE GRAMINIS DC. 1. c. vi. 106. No. 384, on Poa 

 nemoralis, pine belt north of Mancos, 8,500 feet, July 7. 



HYPOCREALES. 



CHARONECTRIA PEDICULARIS n. sp. Scattered or subgre- 

 garious, perithecia prominent but long covered by the thin 

 epidermis, orbicular, at length subdepressed, bright coral- 

 red, smooth, soft, perforated by an obscure ostiolum, about 

 400/x ; asci numerous, cylindrical, short-pedicellate, apara- 

 physate, (?) about 100x8/x ; ascospores obliquely monostich- 

 ous, hyaline, minutely guttulate, equally uniseptate, nar- 

 rowly oval, ends acutish, about 17x4/x. 



On dead stems of Pedicularis crenulata, Bear Creek Divide, 



