32 SACCARDO, PECK, TRELEASE 



A typo differt (an ab aetata?) ascis sporidlisque paullo angustioribus. 

 Sphaerella graminum Saccardo & Scalia, sp. nov. (p1. iv, fig. 5.) 



Peritheciis sparsis, punctiformibus, globulosis, 150-200 ;m diam., 

 innato-prominulis, epidermide non atrata tectis, brevissime papillato- 

 pertusis, contextu membranaceo-fuligineo, parenchymatico ; ascis 

 cylindraceis, subsessilibus, apice rotundatis, 65-70x10-12//, rectius- 

 culis, 8-sporis; sporidiis distichis, elHptico-fusoideis, rectis, 13-16. 5 

 X 3.5—4 At, uniseptatis, non constrictis, plasmate granuloso v. minute 

 guttulato farctis, hyalinis. 



Shumagin Islands (Harrington in 1871-2, on dead leaves of Poa 

 stenantha) . 



Affinis S. cruris-galli^ praecipue distinguenda peritheciis majusculis 

 ratione fructificatione. 

 Sphaerella wichuriana Schroeter. 



Yes Bay (Howell, on leaves of Carex^ 1694). 

 Sphaerella ootheca Saccardo. 



Nagai (Harrington in 1871-2, on leaves of Dryas ociopetala) , 



Verisimiliter S. octopetalcB Oud. non satis differt. 

 Sphaerella stellarinearum (Rabenhorst) Karsten. 



Russell Fiord (Coville & Kearney, 987a, on old leaves of Alsine 

 longipes) . 

 Sphaerella harthensis Auerswald. 



Port Clarence (Trelease, 699, on living leaves of Betula glandu- 

 losa^ associated w^ith Dothidella betulina). 

 Sphaerella alni-viridis De Notaris. 



Port Wells (Trelease, 710a;, 910, on leaves of Alnus^ associated 

 with Didymosphceria nana and Gnomoniella tubiformis). 



Sphaerella californica Cooke & Harkness. 



Yes Bay (Howell, on leaves of Agrostis, 171 1 5 associated with 

 Leptosph<^ria leersiana'). 



Sphaerella grossulariae salicella Saccardo & Scalia, var. nov. (p1. iv, 



fig. 6.) 



Peritheciis sparsim gregariis, punctiformibus, 100-130 11 diam. ; 

 ascis tereti-oblongis, 52-70 X 13-15-5 P-> brevissime stipitatis, octo- 

 sporis ; sporidiis polystichis, fusoideo-baclllaribus, rectis, 32-34 X 

 1.5-2.5 Ai, uniseptatis, non constrictis, hyalinis. 



Kadiak (Trelease, 698, on leaves of Salix^ associated with Rhy- 

 iisma salicinuni). 



