﻿Report 
  of 
  the 
  Botanist. 
  79 
  

  

  reddish- 
  brown 
  or 
  dark 
  amber 
  color, 
  then 
  blackish 
  ; 
  asci 
  

   broad, 
  oblong 
  or 
  oblanceolate 
  ; 
  spores 
  numerous, 
  elliptical, 
  

   slightly 
  colored, 
  .00025 
  / 
  -.0003 
  / 
  long. 
  

  

  Dung 
  of 
  dogs. 
  Bethlehem. 
  May. 
  

  

  Sph^eeia 
  acervalis 
  var. 
  Juntperi 
  West. 
  

  

  Dead 
  wood 
  and 
  branches 
  of 
  red 
  cedar, 
  Juniperus 
  Yir- 
  

   giniana. 
  Buffalo. 
  Clinton. 
  

  

  Spbleria 
  monosperma 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Perithecia 
  scattered, 
  convex 
  or 
  hemispherical, 
  partly 
  

   covered 
  by 
  the 
  fibres 
  of 
  the 
  wood, 
  smooth, 
  black, 
  pierced; 
  

   asci 
  oblong 
  or 
  lanceolate, 
  containing 
  a 
  single 
  spore 
  ; 
  

   paraphyses 
  numerous, 
  filiform 
  ; 
  spores 
  very 
  large, 
  oblong 
  

   or 
  subfusiform, 
  obtuse, 
  fenestrate, 
  sometimes 
  obscurely 
  

   multiseptate, 
  yellowish 
  or 
  pale-brown, 
  .003 
  '-.006' 
  long. 
  

  

  Decorticated 
  birch 
  wood. 
  Forestburgh. 
  September. 
  

   (Plate 
  2, 
  figs. 
  36-39.) 
  

  

  Remarkable 
  for 
  producing 
  but 
  one 
  spore 
  in 
  an 
  ascus. 
  

   When 
  young 
  the 
  asci 
  are 
  filled 
  with 
  a 
  granular 
  endochrome 
  

   which 
  is 
  gradually 
  absorbed 
  in 
  the 
  formation 
  in 
  each 
  of 
  a 
  

   single 
  large 
  cellular 
  spore 
  which 
  scarcely 
  differs 
  in 
  color 
  

   from 
  the 
  original 
  contents 
  of 
  the 
  ascus. 
  In 
  the 
  best 
  devel- 
  

   oped 
  specimens 
  the 
  ostiolum 
  when 
  magnified 
  appears 
  to 
  

   occupy 
  the 
  center 
  of 
  a 
  small 
  orbicular 
  depressed 
  disk. 
  

  

  Sph^eria 
  scoriadea 
  Fr. 
  Verrucaria 
  conferta 
  Tayl. 
  

  

  Dead 
  birch 
  branches. 
  Center. 
  June. 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  some 
  doubt 
  whether 
  this 
  is 
  a 
  fungus 
  or 
  a 
  lichen. 
  

  

  Sph^eria 
  Platantcola 
  Howe. 
  

  

  Brancjilets 
  of 
  Platanus 
  ocoidentalis. 
  Yonkers. 
  Howe. 
  

  

  Sphjeria 
  pulicaris 
  Pers. 
  

  

  Dead 
  stems 
  of 
  Indian 
  corn. 
  North 
  Greenbush. 
  October. 
  

  

  Not 
  having 
  access 
  to 
  Persoon's 
  description, 
  our 
  specimens 
  

   were 
  determined 
  by 
  comparison 
  with 
  those 
  in 
  Ravenel's 
  

   Fungi 
  Fxsiccati 
  Garoliniani. 
  Sphceria 
  pulicaris 
  Fr., 
  now 
  

   referred 
  to 
  the 
  genus 
  Nectria, 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  different. 
  

  

  Sphceria 
  rubefacient 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Perithecia 
  minute, 
  scattered, 
  subglobose, 
  smooth, 
  black, 
  

   nearly 
  free, 
  abruptly 
  tapering 
  into 
  the 
  long 
  slender 
  subulate 
  

  

  