50 Thirty-first Report on the State Museum. 



Dead branches of prickly ash, Xanthoxylum Americanum. West Troy. 

 Oct. 



The species belongs to the Pseudovalsa series. 



Valsa Crat^igi Curr. 



Dead ash branches. Catskill Mountains. Sept. 



Our specimens do not fully agree with the description of the species to 

 which we have referred them, but the differences are not very decided. 



LOPHIOSTOMA SCELESTUM C. & E. 



Decaying wood of apple tree. Helderberg Mountains. May. 



LOPHIOSTOMA PROMINENS Pk. 



Perithecia very prominent, hemispherical, adnate at the base, .07 -.08' 

 broad, smooth, black; ostiola distinct, compressed, black, shining; asci sub- 

 clavate ; spores biseriate, oblong or subfusiform, straight or slightly curved, 

 colored, five-septate, .0008 -.001' long. 



Dead twigs of button-bush, Cephalanthus occidental^. Center. June. 

 The species is related to L. bicuspidatum, but the perithecia are not im- 

 mersed, and the spores are destitute of cuspidate points and longitudinal septa. 



Massaria gigaspora Desm. 



Dead branches of sheep-berry, Viburnum Lentago. Albany. May. 

 The spores in our specimens are .003' long, and quadrilocular with the two 

 central cells shorter than the terminal ones. 



SPHiERIA (VlLLOS^) PULCHRISETA Pk. 



Perithecia very minute, .003 '-.004' in diameter, superficial, numerous, at 

 length collapsing, black, beautifully hispid with straight diverging black setae ; 

 asci narrowly fusiform or lanceolate ; spores narrow, subfusiform, colorless, 

 .00025 -.0003' long, the endochrome sometimes parted in the middle. 



Chips in woods. Griffins. Sept. 



Externally this fungus has the appearance of some species of Venturia, but 

 it appears to have paraphyses among the asci. 



Sph^iria fimiseda Ces. & De Not. 



Excrement of cows. Oneida. Warne. 



SPHiERIA CLADOSPORIOSA StflW. 



Old Polyporus sulphur eus. Buffalo. Apr. Clinton. 



This, as Berkeley remarks, is not a true iSphaeria, but as the specimens are 

 not in condition to show its true relations, it is left where Schweinitz placed it. 



Sphjeria phellogena B. & C. 



Corky bark of elm. Bethlehem. May. 



Sph^eria(Caulicol^) curvicolla Pk. 



Perithecia small, .03-04' broad, scattered or two to three confluently 

 crowded, erumpent, at length naked, hemispherical, black; ostiola short, sub- 

 cylindrical, slightly curved ; asci oblong ; spores crowded or biseriate, 

 colorless, .0006'-.0009' long, .0003' broad. 



Dead stems of Polygonum articulatum. Center. Oct. 



