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thin, coriaceous, pseudoparenchymatous, at first fuliginous-brown, then 
blackening. Paraphyses persistent, simple, filiform. Asci clavate, 
8-spored. Spores smoky-black, oblong or broadly fusiform, muriform, 
5-6 locular, with some of the cells once divided, 17—20X 6-9 p. 
Abundant on the bark of scrub oaks at West Palm Beach, Florida, Decem- 
ber 1897 (type!); and on living Oleander at Cocoanut Grove, Florida, No- 
vember 1897; collected by Professor ROLAND THAXTER. Type specimen in 
the Cryptogamic Herbarium of Harvard University.—LincoLn W. RIDDLE, 
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. 
