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iculum thin, appressed, gray, one to two lines broad, composed of 

 filaments of two kinds, one kind, coarse, branching, septate, blackish- 

 brown, bearing numerous short ramuli,each of which is terminated by 

 a large colored three to four-lobed spore-like body, .0006 in. to .0009 

 in. long and broad, the other kind, delicate colorless, bearing narrowly 

 fusiform colorless conidia; cups minute, .012 in. to .016 in. broad, 

 sessile, glabrous, immarginate, waxy, whitish, subpellucid; asci enlarged 

 upwards, broad and obtuse at the apex, .0015 in. to .0002 in. long; 

 spores oblanceolate, crowded, .0006 in. to .0008 in. long, .0002 in. to 

 .0003 in. broad, generally three or four-nucleate ; paraphyses filiform. 



Living or languishing leaves of balsam fir, Abies balsamea. Stony 

 Clove, Catskill mountains. Aug. The presence of two kinds of 

 filaments in the subiculum suggests the question whether both belong 

 to the Peziza. In a few instances the perithecia of a sphaeriaceous 

 fungus were found on the subiculum, and in one case both this fungus 

 and the Peziza were occupying the same patch of filaments. The 

 delicate whitish filaments appear to overrun and adhere to the coarse 

 brown ones as if parasitic on them. This commingling of the two gives 

 the general gray hue to the subiculum. It is probable that the delicate 

 filaments belong to the Peziza and are parasitic on the other which 

 probably belongs to the following fungus. 



Meliola balsamicola, n. sp. (Plate 1, figs. 22-27.) Perithecia few, 

 gregarious, minute, ovate or subcorneal, free, black, seated on a small 

 blackisn-brown spot-like subiculum; asci generally oblong, rarely 

 subcyliudrical and elongated ; spores mostly crowded or biseriate, 

 rarely uniseriate, uniseptate, colorless, .00035 in. to .00045 in. long, 

 generally two to three-nucleate and one cell a little narrower than the 

 other. Living or languishing leaves of balsam fir, associated with 

 Peziza balsamicola. Catskill mountains. Aug. The subicula on 

 which this fungus occurred were a little darker colored than those 

 which bore thePaziza the whitish filaments being less abundant. From 

 this it is inferred that the colored filaments are properly the subiculum 

 of the Meliola. M. ganglifera and some South African species of 

 Asterina are said to have similar bodies on the threads of the subicu- 

 lum. Our fungus does not fully meet the requirements of the genus 

 Meliola, neither is it a good Asterina nor Dimerosporium. It needs 

 further investigation. 



Hypoxylon marginatum, Schiv. Oak fence posts. Albany. Sept. 



Diatrype punctulata, B. & R. White oak wood. Ithaca. Prentiss. 

 The specimens are sterile, bat evidently belong to this species, which, 

 though first published as a Hypoxylon, was afterward described as a 

 Diatrype. 



Diatrypella angulata, Fr. Dead branches of ash and poplar. North 

 Greenbush. Oct. 



Valsa myinda, C. & E. Dead branches of maple, Acer spicatum. 

 Knowersville. Oct. 



Dothidea melanoplaca, Desm. Languishing or dead leaves of white 

 hellebore, Veratrum viride. Catskill and Adirondack mountains. 

 July and Aug. The specimens are not in fruit ; neither has it been 

 found in fertile condition in Europe so far as I am informed. Pos- 

 sibly it perfects its fruit in Winter or early Spring. 



