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sometimes involved in a gray tomentum ; asci linear ; spores 

 oblong-elliptical, colored, uniseriate, uniseptate, .0005'- 

 .0006' long. 



Dead branches of Vaccinium coryrribosum. Forestburgh. 

 September. Also on branches of Kalmia lalifolia. J. 

 B. Ellis. (Plate 1, figs. 15-18). 



The young spores are pale and simple, containing one or 

 more nuclei, but they soon become colored and uniseptate. 



LOPHIOSTOMA SEXNUCLEATA CooTce. 



Dead stems of grape vines. North Greenbush. October. 



The perithecia in our specimens are closely placed and 

 the spores are smaller than in the type, being .001 '-.0012' 

 long, but I have not thought best to separate our plant as a 

 distinct species. 



Sphjeria thujina n. sp. 



Perithecia scattered, nearly free, hemispherical or conical, 

 slightly rugulose, thin, fragile \ ostiola at first slightly papil- 

 late then pertuse ; spores large, uniseptate, oblong-ellipti- 

 cal, constricted at the septum, colored, .0015'-. 0018' long. 



Decaying wood of Thuja occidentalis. Adirondack 

 Mts. Aug. 



Sph^eria pilifera Ft. 



Decaying wood. Buffalo. Qlinton. 



The specimens are sterile but appear to belong here. I 

 have seen no description of the fruit of this species and con- 

 clude that it is rarely fertile. 



Sph,eria lagenaria Pers. 



On the hymenium of some old Polyporus. Adirondack 

 Mountains. August. 



I find no account of the spores of this species and therefore 

 subjoin the following description of the fruit of our speci- 

 mens. 



Asci very broad, delicate, fugacious ; spores crowded, 

 simple, elliptical, colored, .0005' long, .0003' broad. 



This is, apparently, a rare species with us. The spores are 

 sometimes found adhering, in a mass, to the apex of the 

 long slender ostiolum. The subicular tomentum is present 

 in some of the specimens and there is sometimes a hairy 

 appearance to the perithecia which seems to be due to this 

 tomentum or to some minute mucedinous growth. 



