﻿Eeport 
  of 
  the 
  Botanist. 
  71 
  

  

  Epichlce 
  typhis 
  a 
  Berk. 
  

  

  Living 
  stems 
  of 
  Carex. 
  Oneida. 
  Warne. 
  

  

  I 
  do 
  not 
  know 
  that 
  this 
  plant 
  has 
  before 
  been 
  detected 
  in 
  

   this 
  country. 
  

  

  NeCTRIA 
  SA^GUTOEA 
  Ff. 
  

  

  Cut 
  surface 
  of 
  maple 
  wood. 
  Williamstown. 
  July. 
  

  

  Hypoxylon 
  euscopurpureum 
  Schw. 
  

  

  Old 
  rails 
  and 
  decaying 
  wood. 
  Sandlake. 
  

  

  Hypoxylon 
  Sassafras 
  Schw. 
  

  

  Bark 
  of 
  Sassafras 
  officinale. 
  Yonkers. 
  Howe. 
  

  

  Dothidea 
  Lenders 
  Qer. 
  

  

  Dead 
  stems 
  of 
  the 
  spice 
  bush, 
  Lindera 
  Benzoin. 
  Albany. 
  

   October. 
  

  

  Melogramma 
  Bulliardi 
  Tul. 
  

  

  Bark 
  of 
  hornbeam. 
  La 
  Salle, 
  Magara 
  county. 
  Clinton. 
  

   May. 
  

  

  Diatrype 
  aspera 
  Fr. 
  

  

  Dead 
  stems 
  of 
  Cornus. 
  Tyre. 
  September. 
  

  

  Diatrype 
  discoidea 
  C. 
  & 
  P. 
  

  

  Stroma 
  orbicular 
  or 
  elliptical, 
  transversely 
  erumpent, 
  sur- 
  

   rounded 
  by 
  the 
  epidermis, 
  disk 
  naked, 
  plane, 
  grayish- 
  

   black 
  ; 
  ostiola 
  small, 
  scarcely 
  exserted, 
  nearly 
  smooth 
  or 
  

   four 
  to 
  six 
  sulcate, 
  perithecia 
  six 
  to 
  twelve, 
  ovate 
  ; 
  asci 
  

   small, 
  linear- 
  clavate, 
  stipitate, 
  polysporous 
  ; 
  spores 
  cylin- 
  

   drical, 
  curved 
  or 
  straight, 
  slightly 
  colored, 
  .0002' 
  long; 
  

   paraphyses 
  filiform. 
  

  

  Dead 
  branches 
  of 
  white 
  birch, 
  Betula 
  populifolia. 
  Cen- 
  

   ter. 
  October. 
  

  

  When 
  the 
  outer 
  bark 
  is 
  torn 
  away 
  the 
  fungus 
  comes 
  off 
  

   with 
  it. 
  The 
  species 
  belongs 
  to 
  the 
  subgenus 
  Diatrypella 
  

   and 
  is 
  closely 
  related 
  to 
  D. 
  quercina. 
  There 
  are 
  two 
  forms, 
  

   one 
  with 
  the 
  stroma 
  small, 
  narrow, 
  and 
  transversely 
  erum- 
  

   pent, 
  the 
  other 
  larger 
  and 
  suborbicular. 
  

  

  