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  Twenty-eighth 
  Eepoet 
  ox 
  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  .OOOS'-OOOQ' 
  long, 
  .0002' 
  broad 
  ; 
  paraphyses 
  slender, 
  simple, 
  

   slightly 
  thickened 
  above. 
  

   Decaying 
  wood. 
  Portville. 
  September. 
  

  

  Patellaeia 
  dispeesa 
  Ger. 
  

  

  Bark 
  of 
  Juniperus 
  Virginiana. 
  Poughkeepsie. 
  Gerard. 
  

   New 
  Baltimore. 
  Howe. 
  

  

  Patellaeia 
  fenesteata 
  C. 
  & 
  P. 
  

  

  Scattered, 
  dull 
  black, 
  somewhat 
  soft 
  and 
  waxy 
  when 
  

   moist, 
  discoid, 
  rather 
  irregular 
  when 
  dry, 
  margin 
  rounded, 
  

   elevated, 
  contracted 
  when 
  dry, 
  disk 
  plane 
  or 
  convex, 
  some- 
  

   times 
  depressed 
  or 
  umbilicate 
  in 
  the 
  center 
  ; 
  asci 
  subclavate 
  ; 
  

   spores 
  four 
  to 
  eight, 
  involved 
  in 
  mucus, 
  large, 
  pyriform, 
  

   multiseptate, 
  fenestrate, 
  brown, 
  .0018 
  / 
  -.002' 
  long; 
  paraphy- 
  

   ses 
  slightly 
  clavate. 
  

  

  Dead 
  branches 
  of 
  poplar. 
  Center. 
  October 
  and 
  Novem- 
  

   ber. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  closely 
  resembles 
  the 
  preceding 
  one, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  

   less 
  scattered 
  in 
  its 
  mode 
  of 
  growth, 
  the 
  spores 
  are 
  longer 
  

   in 
  proportion 
  to 
  their 
  breadth, 
  and 
  are 
  involved 
  in 
  mucus, 
  

  

  SPHIXCTErNA 
  TIGILLAEIS 
  B. 
  & 
  Br. 
  

  

  On 
  Polyporus 
  dbietinus. 
  Albany. 
  Buffalo. 
  Clinton. 
  

   The 
  spores 
  in 
  our 
  specimens 
  are 
  .0003-. 
  0006' 
  long. 
  

  

  Ceistangium 
  Auchpaei^: 
  Fr. 
  

  

  Dead 
  branches 
  of 
  mountain 
  ash, 
  Pyrus 
  Americana. 
  

   Keene, 
  Essex 
  county. 
  July. 
  

  

  Cenangium 
  Pubi 
  Fr. 
  

  

  Dead 
  stems 
  of 
  raspberry. 
  North 
  Greenbush. 
  May. 
  

  

  Cexaxgium 
  defoematum 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Small, 
  crowded 
  or 
  scattered, 
  at 
  first 
  irregular 
  or 
  subspher- 
  

   ical 
  then 
  opening 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  and 
  becoming 
  discoid 
  with 
  an 
  

   irregular 
  or 
  ruptured 
  margin, 
  black 
  ; 
  spores 
  crowded, 
  ellip- 
  

   tical, 
  at 
  first 
  pale 
  with 
  the 
  endochrome 
  centrally 
  parted, 
  

   then 
  colored 
  and 
  uniseptate, 
  .0011-.0013' 
  long. 
  

  

  Dead 
  bark 
  of 
  Juniperus 
  Virginiana. 
  Greenbush. 
  May. 
  

  

  When 
  young 
  the 
  plants 
  resemble 
  some 
  small 
  irregular 
  

   Sphseria. 
  They 
  sometimes 
  manifest 
  a 
  tendency 
  to 
  grow 
  in 
  

   lines. 
  

  

  