REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I917 5 1 



Gloniella ovata (Cooke) Sacc. 



On decorticated and weathered wood ofCastanea dentata. 

 Orient, N. Y. Roy Latham, no. 824. • May 20, 19 16. The type of 

 this species (collected by Ravenel in Carolina) is said to be on oak. 



Gloniella parvulata Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Perithecia 250 to 350 /x in diameter, scattered, nearly black, short- 

 elliptic, dimidiate, erumpent but covered by a very thin layer of 

 wood-fibers, striate where exposed; mouth nearly round or short- 

 cleft. Asci 60 to 95 x 12 to 15 /x, 6 to 8 /x thick at the apex; 

 paraphyses abundant, longer than the asci. Sporidia hyaline, spir- 

 ally 2 to 3-seriate, 3 to 5-septate, mostly 3-septate, constricted, the 

 second cell from the top widest, 20 to 24 x 6 to 8 /x. 



On decorticated and weathered wood of Thuja occiden- 

 tal i s . Brownsville. C. H. Peck, June. 



Gloniella vaccinicola Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Perithecia black, minute, 90 to 250 /x in diameter, round or ovate, 

 seated in the cortex, thickly scattered, stellately rupturing the 

 cuticle ; lips or rim not definitely distinct from the black paraphysal 

 layer overlying the hyaline asci. Asci parallel, 75 to 90 x 10 to 

 12 xx, paraphyses not distinct between the asci, interwoven in a thick 

 layer, 15 /x thick, above them. Sporidia fusoid, hyaline, 3 to 

 5-septate, 18 to 21 x 4 to 5 /x, obliquely 2 to 3-seriate in the asci. 



On dead branchlets ofVaccinium corymbosum. Sand- 

 lake, N. Y. C. H. Peck (no date given). This was designated by 

 Doctor Peck as Sphaeria vaccinicola Schw., the type 

 of which is said to be sterile, and which is probably a quite different 

 species. 



Glonium pruni Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Perithecia dimidiate, subcarbonous, dull black, evenly and thickly 

 scattered, elliptic at base, .3 to .5 x .15 to .20 mm subcuticular, 

 opening by a nearly round pore or a short cleft. Asci 75 to 100 

 x 10 to 12 /x, sessile, clavate-cylindric, narrow at the base, over- 

 topped by the linear, branching, hyaline paraphyses. Sporidia 

 hyaline, uniseptate, biseriate in half to three-fourths of the length 

 of the asci, somewhat constricted, 13 to 16 x 4.5 to 5.5 /x. 



