.50 Thirty-second Report on the State Museum. 



dothidea reticulata ff. 



Dead leaves of some liliaceous plant, apparently Smilacina bifolia. Sum- 

 mit. Sept. 



Hypoxylon udum Ft. 



Decaying poplar wood. G-ansevoort. Aug. 



DlATRYPE VERRUCOIDES 71. Sp. 



Pustules small, verruciform, covered by the epidermis, which is longitudi- 

 nally or stellately split, the laciniae closely adhering ; stroma blackish exter- 

 nally, whitish within, sometimes coated above with a thin cinerous tomentum ; 

 ostiola black, depressed, stellately sulcate ; perithecia three to eight in a 

 pustule ; asci clavate ; spores simple, cylindrical, straight or slightly curved, 

 .0008' long, .00016' broad. 



Dead beech twigs. Stamford. Sept. 



The pustules bear some resemblance to those of Diatrype verruciformis , 

 Ibui they are generally smaller. They penetrate to the wood, and are sur- 

 rounded by a more or less distinct black line. 



"Valsa pulviniceps n. sp. 



Perithecia 8-12 in a pustule, sunk to the wood, covered by the bark; 

 ostiola erumpent, crowded, prominent, black, forming an orbicular cushion- 

 shaped mass ; asci clavate ; spores crowded, subelliptical or broadly fusiform, 

 multinucleate, slightly colored, .0004'-. 0006' long. 



Dead stems of elder, Sambucus Canadensis. Richmondville. Sept. 

 This is apparently very unlike V. abnormis, which is said to inhabit 

 Sambucus. 



Valsa Sorbi Fr. 



Dead branches of mountain ash, Pyrus Americana. Adirondack Moun- 

 tains. July. 



liOPHIOSTOMA BICUSPIDATA CJi. 



Dead stems of thimble berry, Rubus odoratus. Catskill Mountains. July. 

 This is the variety with spores .0012' long. The colorless cusps at the 

 tips of the spores are well shown. 



Sph^eria squamulata Schw. 



Decaying wood. Catskill Mountains. Sept. 



It is with some hestitation that our specimens are referred to this species, 

 for the " black crust " required by the description is not clearly present ; 

 indeed, it is in some instances clearly absent ; and the ostiola, which are de- 

 scribed as "rather thick," in our specimens are compressed as in the genus 

 Lophiostoma. In other respects the agreement with the description is good 

 :so far as the description goes. But no diagnosis is given of the fruit, and I 

 am informed that no specimens of the species are to be found in Schweinitz's 

 Herbarium, so that it is scarcely possible to remove all uncertainty. In our 

 specimens the asci are clavate ; the spores are crowded, oblong-fusiform, uni- 

 septate, constricted in the middle, colorless, .0015 -.0018 long, containing 

 from four to six nu^ei. 



