FUNGI 29 



Pleospora herbarum (Persoon) Rabenhorst. 



Point Barrow (Murdoch, 15682, on decaying leaves of Ranuncu- 

 lus nivalis) ; Nagai (Harrington in 1871-2, on decayed leaves of 

 Oxytropis uralensis arctica'). 



Prima est forma macrospora (sp. 44-54 X 20-23 ;ti), postrema est 

 microspora (sp. 32-36 X 15-16/4). 

 Metasphaeria empetri (Fries) Saccardo. 



Port Clarence (Trelease, 7cx), on leaves of Empetrum nigrum^ the 

 specimen not entirely mature). 

 Massarina dryadis Rostrup. 



Point Barrow (Murdoch in 1883, on leaves of Dry as octopetala 

 integrifolia^ the specimen not entirely mature) . 

 Pseudovalsa ribesia Saccardo & Scalia, sp. nov. (p1. v, fig. 14.) 



Stromatibus corticolis tectis, dein erumpentibus, nigris, e peritheciis 

 4-6 connatis compositis, vix i mm. diam., ostiolis obtusulis breviter 

 emergentibus ; ascis crasse cylindraceis, brevissime abrupte stipitatis, 

 apice late rotundatis, 1 10-130 x 24-26//, filiformi-paraphysatis, octo- 

 sporis ; sporidiis distichis, oblongo-fusoideis, primo hyalinis, didymis, 

 strato mucoso hyalino obductis, dein 3-septatis, medio parum con- 

 strictis, 38-41 X 16-20 ju, fuscidulis. 



Sitka (Trelease, 7090;, on dead corticated branches of Ribes laxi- 

 florum^ associated with 7?^_y«c>4o//^o;wa, Godronia^ Diaporthe^etc), 

 Sporormia ambigua Niessl. 



Kadiak (Trelease, 707, on dung — of ptarmigan.?). 

 Leptosphaeria ophiopogonis graminum Saccardo. 



Yes Bay (Howell, on dead leaves of Festuca rubra^ 1722). 

 Leptosphaeria leersiana Saccardo. 



Yes Bay (Howell, on leaves of Agrostis^ 17115 associated with 

 Sphcerella calif ornica'). 



Leptosphaeria doliolum (Persoon) De Notarls. 



Kadiak (Trelease, ^2>l^t ^^ dead stems of Heracleum^ associated 

 with Sphcerographium. abditunt). 



Leptosphaeria foeniculacea lupina Saccardo & Scalia, subsp. nov. 



(p1. V, fig. 12.) 



Peritheciis globoso-depressis, diu tectis, dein nudatis, sparsis v. sub- 

 gregariis, minutissime papillatis, 350-420 11 diam., glabris, nigris; 

 contextu parenchymatico, fuligineo ; ascis longe clavatis, stipitatis, 

 100-120 X I3-5-15-5 1^1 octosporis, paraphysibus filiformibus septu- 



