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cularibus, convexis, 1.3-1.5 mm. diam., intus Hgneo-palHdis ; peri- 

 theciis 10-20, globosis v. mutua pressione irregularibus, 200-250 n 

 diam., monostichis, ostiolis breve cylindraceis, parum emergentibus, 

 aplce rotundatis; ascis fusoideo-clavatis, apice obtusis, deorsum 

 tenuatis, 80-90 X 11-13^^, octosporis ; sporidiis distichis, obovatis, 

 14-17 X 5-5-5 At? infra medium septatis, non constrictis, farctis, hya- 

 linis et initio strato mucoso inaequali obductis, articulo superiore fere 

 duplo majore. 



Yakutat Bay (Trelease, 684<5, on decorticated dead branches of 

 CorylusP). 



Etsi matrix non certa, species videtur distinguenda ob sporidia 

 eximie anisomera. 

 Diaporthe (Tetrastaga) pungens Nitschke. 



Sitka (Trelease, 728^!, on twigs of Ribes^ associated with Rhyti' 

 chofhoma). 



Forma ostiolis brevius exertis. 



Venturia circinans (Fries) Saccardo. 



Virgin Bay (Trelease, 746, on living leaves of Geranium erianthum^ 

 Immature) . 



Venturia kunzei Saccardo. 

 Coleroa chcetomiutn. 



Prince William Sound (Trelease, 748) ; Yakutat Bay (Trelease, 

 749) . On leaves of Rubus. 

 Venturia kunzei ramicola Saccardo & Scalia, var. nov. (p1. iv, fig. 8.) 



A typo differt peritheciis ramicolis in crusta stromatica (propria?) 

 nascentibus. 



Unalaska (Harrington in 187 1-2, on branches of Rubus stellatus). 



Sphaerella leptospora Saccardo & Scalia, sp. nov. (p1. iv, fig. 7.) 



Peritheciis sparsis, globulosis, primo immersis dein liberis, 220- 

 275^4 diam., poro pertusis, contextu parenchymatico, fuligineo ; ascis 

 cylindraceis, rectis v. curvulis, brevissime stipitatis, 50-60 X 7.5-9 At ; 

 sporidiis octonis, distichis, fusiformibus, rectis, medio i-septatis, non 

 constrictis, 13-15.5x2.5-3)01, hyalinis, saepe guttulatis. 



Yes Bay (Howell, on leaves of Carex mertensiana, ^693). 

 Affinis S. ferexiguce^ sed perithecia multo ampliora, asci longiores 

 et angustiores. 



Sphserella eriophila Niessl. 



St. Lawrence Bay (Liitk. Exped., on dead leaves of Artemisia 

 glomerata or A. heterophylla^ , 



