Keport of the State Botanist. 143 



cylindrical, or obloug-clavate, -003'— -0045' long, about •00032' 

 broad ; spores filiform, variously curved, sometimes multinucleate, 



• 0016' — 003' long. 



Dead stems aud branches of mountain holly, Nemopantlies 

 Canadensis. Grafton, Rensselaer county. July. 



The tufts are erumpeut and quite prominent. They vary much 

 in size, but are generally one to two lines broad. The receptacles 

 are so closely crowded that the disk is often angular from mutual 

 pressure. The species is similar in its appearance to Tympanis 

 alnea. 

 Oenangium betulinum, Ql. sp. 



Keceptacles Cca?spitose or subseriate, crumpent through short 

 transverse chinks in the bark, at first spha^riiform, then open, 

 black, tlie disk nearly plane, slightly margined, often irregular 

 from mutual pressure, •007'— »'01-4' broad; asci oblong or sub- 

 clavate, -OOIG' long, about -OOO-i' broad ; spores crow^ded, oblong, 

 obtuse, slightly colored, triseptate, -0004' — 0005' long, about 



• OOOIC broad/ 



Dead bark of white birch, BetuJa populifoUa. Center. May. 



This species differs from C. seriatum, which also occurs on 

 birch, in its small size, smaller tufts, which usually contain five 

 to ten plants, and in its septate spores. 



TrIBLIDIUM CLAViESPORUM, 11. Sp. 



Receptacles, when moist, suborbicular, plane or slightly convex, 

 margined, -03' — 04' broad, black, when dry more or less con- 

 tracted, hysteriiform, with thick labia; asci clavate or cylindrical, 

 •0035' — 0045' long ; spores oblong-clavate, crowded or biseriate, 

 colored, four-septate, -0009' — 0011' long, -0003' — 0004' broad. 



Decorticated wood of willows, Salix nigra. Albany. July. 

 ASCOMYCES DEFORMANS, Berk. 



Living leaves of peach trees. Sandlake. 

 Gtmnascella, gen. nov. 



Perithecia wanting ; asci numerous, subglobose, produced upon 

 or among slender, branching filaments. 



Externally this fungus has the aspect of species of Sporotrichum, 

 but the spores are produced in asci. 

 Gymnascella aijrantiaca, n. sp. 



Filaments slender, branched, intricate, colored, forming minute 

 subconfluent bright-orange or scarlet-colored tufts; asci numerous, 

 subglobose, produced among the filaments, '0004' — 0006' long ; 

 spores orbicular, -00016' — 0002' broad, crowded in the ascus, 

 colorless, generally uninucleate. 



