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  Twenty-eighth 
  Eeport 
  ox 
  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  ostiola 
  ; 
  asci 
  clavate, 
  fugacious 
  ; 
  spores 
  elliptical, 
  colored, 
  

   .00018 
  / 
  -.0002 
  / 
  long, 
  .00012' 
  broad. 
  

  

  Decorticated 
  wood 
  of 
  deciduous 
  trees. 
  Forestburgh. 
  

   September. 
  Buffalo. 
  Clinton. 
  

  

  The 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  wood 
  on 
  which 
  it 
  grows 
  is 
  variegated 
  

   with 
  red 
  stains, 
  whence 
  the 
  specific 
  name. 
  The 
  long 
  ostiola 
  

   crowned 
  by 
  the 
  mass 
  of 
  spores 
  have 
  the 
  appearance 
  of 
  

   some 
  minute 
  species 
  of 
  Calicium. 
  The 
  plant 
  belongs 
  to 
  the 
  

   Ceratostomce, 
  and 
  is 
  closely 
  related 
  to 
  Sphceria 
  pilifera, 
  

   but 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  that 
  species 
  grows 
  on 
  pine 
  wood 
  and 
  pro- 
  

   duces 
  no 
  red 
  stains. 
  Its 
  spores 
  appear 
  to 
  be 
  unknown, 
  and 
  

   unless 
  they 
  shall 
  be 
  found 
  to 
  correspond 
  with 
  those 
  above 
  

   described, 
  this 
  must 
  be 
  considered 
  a 
  distinct 
  species. 
  

  

  Sph^eeia 
  Ubtic,e 
  Rabh. 
  

  

  Dead 
  stems 
  of 
  nettles. 
  Greenbush. 
  May. 
  

  

  The 
  spores 
  are 
  shorter 
  in 
  our 
  specimens 
  than 
  the 
  dimen- 
  

   sions 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  description, 
  but 
  this 
  difference 
  is 
  probably 
  

   only 
  varietal. 
  

  

  Sph^ebia 
  Datue^e 
  Schw. 
  

  

  Dead 
  stems 
  of 
  Datura 
  Tatula. 
  Buffalo. 
  Clinton. 
  Oc- 
  

   tober. 
  

  

  Sph^eeia 
  tub^foemis 
  Tode. 
  

  

  Fallen 
  alder 
  leaves. 
  West 
  Albany. 
  May. 
  

  

  Sph^eeia 
  mieabilis 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Perithecia 
  scattered, 
  innate, 
  subglobose, 
  membranaceous, 
  

   tough, 
  black 
  , 
  ostiola 
  long, 
  slender, 
  curved 
  or 
  flexuous, 
  

   lateral 
  ; 
  asci 
  broadly 
  fusiform 
  ; 
  spores 
  crowded, 
  elongated, 
  

   subfusiform, 
  hyaline, 
  generally 
  four 
  to 
  many-nucleate, 
  

   .0011'-. 
  0013' 
  long, 
  with 
  a 
  slight 
  appendage 
  at 
  one 
  or 
  both 
  

   ends. 
  

  

  Fallen 
  birch 
  leaves. 
  Bethlehem. 
  June. 
  (Plate 
  2, 
  figs. 
  

   18-21.) 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  is 
  remarkable 
  for 
  its 
  lateral 
  ostiola, 
  which 
  are 
  

   about 
  equal 
  in 
  length 
  to 
  the 
  diameter 
  of 
  the 
  perithecia. 
  

  

  Sph^eeia 
  peeispoeioides 
  B. 
  & 
  C. 
  

  

  Upper 
  surface 
  of 
  living 
  leaves 
  of 
  Desmodium 
  Canadense. 
  

  

  I 
  find 
  no 
  description 
  of 
  this 
  species, 
  and 
  make 
  the 
  deter- 
  

   mination 
  by 
  comparison 
  with 
  Havener 
  s 
  specimens 
  in 
  Fungi 
  

   Exsiccati 
  Co.roliniani, 
  with 
  which 
  ours 
  agree 
  in 
  habit, 
  

  

  