﻿Eepokt 
  op 
  the 
  Botanist. 
  77 
  

  

  nrinal 
  cells, 
  too, 
  are 
  slightly 
  colored, 
  but 
  paler 
  than 
  the 
  

   others. 
  

  

  Spelekia 
  callista 
  B. 
  & 
  C. 
  

  

  Dead 
  branches 
  of 
  Cornus 
  alternifolia. 
  Buffalo. 
  Clin- 
  

   ton. 
  Sandlake. 
  Autumn 
  and 
  spring. 
  

  

  I 
  do 
  not 
  know 
  that 
  any 
  description 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  has 
  

   been 
  published, 
  but 
  our 
  specimens 
  agree 
  with 
  those 
  repre- 
  

   senting 
  it 
  in 
  Havener 
  s 
  Fungi 
  Exsiccati 
  Caroliniani. 
  The 
  

   perithecia 
  become 
  pezizoid-collapsed, 
  and 
  the 
  asci 
  contain 
  

   numerous 
  small 
  curved 
  colorless 
  spores, 
  as 
  in 
  some 
  species 
  

   of 
  Nectria. 
  

  

  SPHiEKIA 
  PPLEOSTKOMOIDES 
  U. 
  Sp. 
  

  

  Conidia. 
  Flocci 
  simple 
  or 
  branched, 
  septate, 
  some 
  of 
  

   them 
  nodose, 
  globosely 
  inflated 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  spores 
  apical, 
  

   oblong, 
  obtuse, 
  uniseptate, 
  centrally 
  constricted, 
  colored, 
  

   .OOOS'-.OOOr 
  long. 
  

  

  Ascophore. 
  Perithecia 
  gregarious, 
  minute, 
  globose, 
  then 
  

   collapsing, 
  rugulose, 
  seated 
  on 
  a 
  black 
  subiculum 
  ; 
  asci 
  

   subfusiform 
  ; 
  spores 
  crowded, 
  subfusiform 
  or 
  cylindrical, 
  

   slightly 
  curved, 
  triseptate, 
  colored, 
  .001' 
  long, 
  the 
  terminal 
  

   cells 
  colorless, 
  the 
  others 
  sometimes 
  nucleate. 
  

  

  Dead 
  branches 
  lying 
  on 
  the 
  ground. 
  North 
  Greenbush. 
  

   September. 
  (Plate 
  2, 
  figs. 
  30-35.) 
  

  

  This 
  plant 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  American 
  analogue 
  of 
  8. 
  

   phceostroma, 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  scarcely 
  differs 
  except 
  in 
  its 
  

   shorter 
  spores 
  and 
  uniseptate 
  conidia. 
  So 
  closely 
  does 
  the 
  

   subiculum 
  of 
  our 
  plant 
  resemble 
  Cladotrichum 
  triseptatum, 
  

   that 
  it 
  might 
  readily 
  be 
  taken 
  for 
  a 
  Cladotrichum 
  with 
  uni- 
  

   septate 
  spores. 
  

  

  Spelekia 
  stjbcorticalis 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Perithecia 
  rather 
  large, 
  thin, 
  sometimes 
  collapsed, 
  black, 
  

   involved 
  in 
  a 
  dense 
  blackish-brown 
  tomentum 
  which 
  is 
  some- 
  

   times 
  confluent, 
  forming 
  a 
  subiculum 
  ; 
  spores 
  oblong, 
  

   colorless, 
  .0003' 
  long. 
  

  

  Dead 
  bark 
  of 
  water 
  beech, 
  Carpinus 
  Americana. 
  North 
  

   Greenbush. 
  June. 
  

  

  When 
  the 
  perithecia 
  are 
  crowded 
  the 
  tomentum 
  runs 
  

   together 
  forming 
  a 
  subiculum, 
  when 
  scattered, 
  it 
  surrounds 
  

   each 
  separately. 
  They 
  are 
  seated 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  bark 
  and 
  are 
  

   entirely 
  concealed 
  by 
  the 
  epidermis. 
  When 
  this 
  is 
  torn 
  

   away 
  the 
  perithecia 
  usually 
  come 
  off 
  with 
  it. 
  The 
  specific 
  

  

  