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Ascojphore. Caespitose or scattered, dull red ; perithecia minute, 

 pale ochraceous and subglobose when moist, dull red collapsed or 

 laterally compressed and rough with minute whitish scales when 

 dry ; ostiola minute ; spores biseriate, uniseptate, fusiform, usually 

 constricted in the middle, nucleate, .00065-0008 in. long. 



Lower part of dead stems of Indian Hemp, Ajpocynum cannahi- 

 num. North Greenbush. October. 



Nectria mycetophila n. sp. 



Perithecia crowded or scattered, minute, smooth, subglobose, 

 pale yellow when young, then pinkish-ochre ; ostiola minute, 

 papillate, distinct, darker colored ; asci subclavate ; spores oblong, 

 simple, .0005 x .00016 in. 



Decaying fungi. New Scotland. October. 



Xylaria qrandis n. sp. 



Large, blackish-brown, irregular, obtusely pointed and rusty- 

 brown at the sterile tip, abruptly narrowed at the base ; central sub- 

 stance white ; perithecia subglobose ; spores subfusiform, pointed 

 at each end, straight or slightly curved, .0008-.0009 in. long ; 

 stem branched, radicating, often greatly elongated. 



Plant 3'-5' high, heads 1.5'-3' long,''8"-12" thick. 



Ground. Portage. Clinton. 



The branching stem and pointed sterile apices of the clubs sepa- 

 rate this horn. X. polymorpha which it also surpasses in size. The 

 larger spores distinguish it from X. digitata. 



Xylaria Graminicola Gerard in litt. 



Club slender, cylindrical, simple, at first greenish pulverulent, 

 then blackish-brown, roughened by the prominent globose peri- 

 thecia, tips sterile, acuminate ; stem smooth, straight or flexuous, 

 brown ; spores uniseriate, unequally ellipitical, .0004 x .0002 in. 



Plant about 2' high, parasitic on the roots of languishing grasses. 

 Poughkeepsie. Gerard. 



It is allied to X. Hypoxylon. 



EUTTPA AOHARII Tul. 



Decorticated poplar. Helderberg mountains. May. 



DiATRYPE PLATYSTOMA Schw. 



Dead branches of maple trees. Tyre and Center. September. 



