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  Twenty-eighth 
  Keport 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Miceosph^ea 
  Platani 
  Howe. 
  

  

  Leaves 
  of 
  button 
  wood, 
  Platanus 
  occidentalis. 
  Yonkers 
  

   Howe. 
  

  

  Miceosph^eea 
  Symphoeicaepi 
  Howe. 
  . 
  * 
  

  

  Leaves 
  of 
  snowberry, 
  Symphoricarpus 
  racemosus. 
  

   Yonkers. 
  Howe. 
  

  

  Miceosph^eea 
  Menispeemi 
  Howe. 
  

  

  Leaves 
  of 
  moonseed, 
  Menispermum 
  Canadense. 
  Yonk- 
  

   ers. 
  Howe. 
  

  

  MlCEOSPHJEEA 
  ABBEEVIATA 
  01. 
  Sp. 
  

  

  Mycelium 
  thin 
  ; 
  conceptacles 
  small 
  ; 
  appendages 
  six 
  to 
  

   fifteen, 
  hyaline, 
  rough, 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  diameter 
  of 
  the 
  

   conceptacles, 
  many 
  times 
  dichotomous 
  at 
  the 
  tips, 
  the 
  ulti- 
  

   mate 
  ramuli 
  curved 
  ; 
  sporangia 
  three 
  or 
  four, 
  containing 
  

   three 
  to 
  five, 
  mostly 
  four, 
  spores 
  ; 
  spores 
  large, 
  .001/-.0013 
  7 
  

   long, 
  .00066' 
  broad. 
  

  

  Under 
  surface 
  of 
  dead 
  or 
  languishing 
  oak 
  leaves. 
  Buffalo. 
  

   Clinton. 
  (Plate 
  2, 
  figs. 
  4-5.) 
  

  

  Allied 
  to 
  M. 
  Hedwigii, 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  separated 
  because 
  

   of 
  the 
  short 
  scabrous 
  appendages, 
  etc. 
  

  

  MicEosPHiEEA 
  Van 
  Beuntiaka 
  Ger. 
  

  

  Living 
  leaves 
  of 
  elder, 
  Sambucus 
  Canadensis. 
  Pough- 
  

   keepsie. 
  Gerard. 
  Buffalo. 
  Clinton. 
  Oneida. 
  Warne. 
  

   West 
  Albany 
  and 
  Sandlake. 
  July 
  to 
  September. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  described 
  as 
  having 
  eight 
  spores 
  in 
  a 
  

   sporangium, 
  but 
  I 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  detect 
  more 
  than 
  

   four 
  in 
  the 
  specimens 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  examined. 
  

  

  t 
  

  

  Chjetomium 
  lanosum 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Perithecia 
  small, 
  subglobose, 
  scattered 
  or 
  crowded, 
  

   densely 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  woolly 
  hairs, 
  which 
  are 
  either 
  

   dingy-olivaceous 
  or 
  mouse-colored 
  ; 
  asci 
  short, 
  broad, 
  fuga- 
  

   cious 
  ;, 
  spores 
  subglobose, 
  at 
  first 
  pale, 
  then 
  slightly 
  colored, 
  

   .0003'-.00035' 
  in 
  diameter, 
  containing 
  a 
  single 
  large 
  nucleus. 
  

  

  On 
  herbarium 
  specimens 
  of 
  grasses. 
  Albany. 
  May. 
  

   The 
  soft 
  woolly 
  appearance 
  of 
  the 
  hairs 
  suggests 
  the 
  spe- 
  

   cific 
  name. 
  

  

  