80 Forty-first Annual Report on tue 



Geaster Schaefferi, Vitt. 



Woods. Catsldll moimtaius. September. 



The interior stratum of the external peridium is very thick iu the 

 fresh plant and conceals the short pedicel of the inner peridium, but 

 iu the dried state this stratum contracts and exposes the i>edicel, 

 which is about one line long. This character distinguishes the species 

 from G. rufescens. 



Geaster vittatus, Kalchb. 



Under pine trees. Catskill mountains. September. 



The thin outer coat of the external peridium cracks in parallel 

 lines, causing the laciniae or rays to apj)ear as if striijed with white 

 longitudinal lines. This character gives name to the species and 

 serves to distinguish it from G. saccatus to which it is otherwise very 

 closely related. 



Sphasropsis carpinea, Sacc. & Br. 



Dead twigs of water beech, Carpinus Americana. Menands. May. 



Cercospora Gentianse, n. sp. 



Spots suborbicular, brown or reddish-brown, sometimes confluent ; 

 hyphpe amphigenous, short, subtlexuous, slightly colored, .000(3 to 

 .0012 in. long, growing from minute l^lackish tubercles ; spores more 

 narrow than the hyphse, cylindrical or gradually narrowed toward one 

 end, one to three-septate, colorless, .0012 to .0024 in. long. 



Living leaves of gentian, Gentiana linearis. Number Four, Adiron- 

 dack mountains. July. 



Oospera Cucumeris, n. sp. 



Tufts loose, subconfluent, whitish or grayish, forming soft, velvety 

 patches ; hyphte erect or diverging; spores catenulate, elliptical or 

 oblong, colorless, .0004 to .0008 in. long, .00025 to .0003 broad. 



Decaying fruit of muskmelon, Gucumis Melo. Menands. October. 



Sporendonema myophilum, Sacc. in litt. 



Hyphse colorless, simple or branched, densely interwoven and form- 

 ing a soft whitish somewhat waxy mass, some of them producing 

 chains of globose or broadly-elliptical spores, .00016 to .0003 in. long. 



Inhabiting the bodies of living mice. Binghamton. H. L. Griffis. 



In the specimen contributed by Mr. Griffis the fungus had broken 

 the skin of the mouse near the eyes, and also on the left shoulder. In 

 the latter place the white patch was about six lines broad, and the 

 ruptured margin of the skin had in some parts a bloody appearance. 

 The mouse was said to be alive when caiight, but it is quite probable 



