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Hypoxylon Howeianum n. sp. 



Globose sessile, covered with a bright red crust, which is thickly 

 punctate with minute black papillate ostiola, at length dull yel- 

 low or black, S''-6'^ in diameter ; perithecia peripheric, crowded, 

 ovate, black, shining ; stroma dense, blackish-bronze, shining, not 

 at all or only very obscurely zonate, radiate-fibrous. 



Fallen branches of some deciduous tree. Center. ^November. 



Allied to Jff. fragiforme in its red crust and ovate perithecia, 

 but it differs in its larger size, punctate, not tuberculose, surface, 

 smaller spores, etc. 



Hypoxylon perforatum Schw. 



Dead branches of birch trees. Catskill mountains. July. 



Hypoxylon argillaceum Ft. 



Trunks of beech trees. Sandlake. June. Buffalo. Clinton, 



Hypoxylon Beaumontii B. (& C. 



Denuded wood of acerose trees. Helderberg mountains. May. 



Hypoxylon Morseii B. d; O. 



Dead branches of alders. Sandlake and Center. Spring and 

 autumn. 



Hypoxylon anthracodes JPr. 



On a prostrate trunk of Tilia Americana. Trenton Falls. 

 September. 



Nectria Peziza Fr. 



Old stumps and rotten wood. Greig and Indian Lake. Sep- 

 tember and October. 



Negtria inaurata B. (& Br. 



Stem of Celastrus scandensf Buffalo. Olinton. 



Yalsa pulchella Fr. 



Dead trunks of cherry trees. Sandlake. June. 

 A pretty species, but nearly concealed by the epidermis of the 

 bark. 



Yalsa salicina Fr, 



Dead branches of willows. Buffalo. Clinton. West Albany. 

 May. 



Yalsa leucostoma Fr. 



Dead branches of apple trees. Buffalo. Clinton. Sandlake. 

 October. 



