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  Twenty-eighth 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Sph^eropsis 
  Sambuci 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Perithecia 
  subglobose, 
  scattered 
  or 
  subcsespitose. 
  rather 
  

   prominent, 
  erumpent, 
  surrounded 
  by 
  the 
  ruptured 
  epider- 
  

   mis, 
  black 
  ; 
  spores 
  oblong, 
  colored, 
  .0006 
  -.0008' 
  long. 
  

  

  Dead 
  branches 
  of 
  elder, 
  Sambucus 
  Canadensis. 
  North 
  

   Greenbush, 
  November. 
  

  

  Sphaeropsis 
  mutica 
  and 
  S. 
  macropsora 
  are 
  said 
  to 
  inhabit 
  

   the 
  elder, 
  but 
  the 
  former 
  is 
  described 
  as 
  having 
  very 
  small 
  

   hyaline 
  spores, 
  and 
  the 
  latter 
  as 
  having 
  much 
  larger 
  sub- 
  

   fusiform 
  spores. 
  

  

  Sphaeropsis 
  biformis 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Perithecia 
  scattered, 
  erumpent, 
  some 
  minute, 
  rupturing 
  

   the 
  epidermis 
  slightly, 
  others 
  larger, 
  rupturing 
  the 
  epider- 
  

   mis 
  distinctly, 
  and 
  generally 
  longitudinally 
  ; 
  spores 
  vari- 
  

   able, 
  obovate 
  elliptical 
  or 
  oblong, 
  sometimes 
  curved, 
  colored, 
  

   .0006'-.001' 
  long. 
  

  

  Dead 
  branches 
  of 
  ash, 
  Fraxinus 
  Americana. 
  Albany. 
  

   May. 
  

  

  Sph^eronema 
  oxysportjm 
  Berk. 
  

  

  Old 
  Merulius 
  tremellosus. 
  Forestburgh. 
  September. 
  

  

  Sph^eronema 
  conforme 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Perithecia 
  scattered, 
  erumpent, 
  with 
  a 
  long, 
  rigid, 
  spine- 
  

   like 
  black 
  ostiolum 
  ; 
  globule 
  whitish 
  ; 
  spores 
  subfusiform, 
  

   generally 
  curved, 
  often 
  with 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  nuclei, 
  .0006'-. 
  0008' 
  

   long. 
  

  

  Dead 
  branches 
  of 
  apple 
  trees. 
  Center. 
  June. 
  

  

  Almost 
  exactly 
  like 
  S. 
  Spina 
  and 
  S. 
  Magnolia 
  externally, 
  

   but 
  the 
  spores 
  afford 
  distinguishing 
  characters. 
  

  

  DlPLODIA 
  HERBARUM 
  Lev. 
  

  

  Dead 
  stems 
  of 
  Thalictrum 
  cornuti. 
  Buffalo. 
  Clinton. 
  

  

  Headers 
  oni 
  a 
  sarmentorum 
  West. 
  

  

  Dead 
  bark 
  of 
  grape 
  vines. 
  North 
  Grreenbush. 
  June. 
  

  

  Hendersonta 
  Peckii 
  Clinton 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Perithecia 
  minute, 
  punctiform, 
  covered 
  by 
  the 
  epidermis 
  

   which 
  is 
  at 
  length 
  ruptured, 
  black 
  ; 
  sporophores 
  long, 
  slen- 
  

  

  