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conspicuous; asci cylindrical, short stipitate, 150-200xl6/*; 

 paraphyses abundant, delicate, thread-like; ascospores mono- 

 stichous, broadly oval, at first yellow 1-septate and much 

 constricted, becoming dark fuscous and 3-, 5- and finally 

 7-septate, the middle, but not the comparatively large end 

 cells, longitudinally divided, constricted only at the middle 

 septum, about 25x12^. 



Dead bark or decorticated twigs of Symphoricarpus, Bob 

 Creek, 10,500 feet, June 27, with nos. 173 and 1073, n. 

 1076. The size and septation of the spore is much as is in 

 Teichospora strigosa E. & E. on the same host. 



TRAMATOSPH^ERIA JUNIPERI n. sp. Perithecia scattered, 

 subfree, suborbicular, black, carbonaceous, not collapsing, 

 ^mm or more in diameter, ostiolum tuberculate, prominent, 

 black, shining; asci clavate,short-stipitate, soon evanescent, 

 about 100x10^; paraphyses abundant, threadlike, guttulate; 

 ascospores obliquely monostichous or subdistichous, fuli- 

 ginous, obtuse-fusiform or subcylindric, often curved, 5-7- 

 septate, somewhat constricted especially at the middle sep- 

 tum, 30-35x6-8/A. 



On weather-worn wood of Juniperus monosperma, foot hills 

 near Mancos, July 8, n. 1093. 



LOPHIOSTOMATACE.E. 



LOPHIOSTOMA OCCIDENTALIS n. sp. Perithecia scattered, 

 prominent, black, roughened below smooth above, oval, 

 l-ljxf-lmm, ostiolum compressed; asci clavate-cylindric, 

 stipe long and slender, 150-1 60x20/x,; paraphyses long 

 filiform; ascospores elliptical, rounded above, more slender 

 below, fuscous, becoming opaque, 5-septate, 30-40x1 0-1 5/^, 

 when immature with a large vacuole in each cell. 



On barkless branches of Juniperus monosperma, Mancos, 

 June 24, n. 1111. 



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