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Old bones in damp places. Albany. May. 



The bright red color of the tufts readily attract the attention. 

 The spores are flattened, and when viewed edgewise appear nar- 

 rowly elliptical. The asci are produced upon short branches of 

 the filaments and frequently form dense clusters or masses. I 

 have seen no evidence of a perithecium, and indeed the asci are 

 thin and somewhat fugacious, and from the crowding of the 

 spores are with difficulty seen. I have not been able to detect 

 with certainty more than six spores in an ascus, though probably 

 there are eight in some cases. 



By the absence of a perithecium, or receptacle, this fungus is 

 related to Ascomyces and kindred genera, but its whole character 

 otherwise is very different. In its habitat it is related to Onygena, 

 the species of which affect animal substances, but it forms no 

 definite head or peridium. It also presents some analogies with 

 other genera, but with none does it seem to agree in all respects. 

 I am disposed, however, to regard it as belonging to the Onygenei, 

 notwithstanding the absence of a definite peridium. 

 Valsa (Cryptospora) tomentella, n. sp. 



Perithecia four to eight, subcircinate, nestling in the inner 

 bark, black, clothed below with a whitish tomentum, disk lan- 

 ceolate, whitish or brownish, erumpent through a narrow trans- 

 verse chink which is acute at each end, pierced by the smooth 

 black ostiola ; asci oblong, broad, subcylindrical to fusiform, ses- 

 sile, .002' — .003' long; spores cylindrical, crowded, colorless, 

 more or less curved, obtuse at the ends, usually multinucleate, 

 • .002'— .0027' long, .00016'— .0002' broad. 



Bark of white birch, Betula populifolia. West Albany. May. 



This species is related to V. cinctula, but the peculiar charac- 

 ter of the disk and the whitish tomentum that invests the base 

 of the perithecia afford available characters by which to separate 

 it from that and other allied species. 

 Sphaeria petiolophila, n. sp. 



Perithecia minute, scattered, covered by the epidermis which is 

 pierced by the prominently papillate or short rostrate ostiola, de- 

 pressed-globose, black; asci narrow, subcylindrical, .0016' — .0018' 

 long ; spores narrowly fusiform, pointed at each end, colorless, 

 biseriate, .0005' — .0006' long, about .00008' broad, sometimes con- 

 taining three or four nucleoli. 



Petioles of fallen leaves of mountain maple, Acer spicatum. 

 Helderberg mountains. May. 



This species belongs to the modern genus G-nomonia, section 



