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oblong-cylindrical, 16-20 x 5-6 // sporidia yellowish and 2-nucleate 

 at first, finally brown and uniseptate, and more or less constricted at 

 the septum. 



On living stems of Smilax, near Jacksonville, Florida (Calkins). 



Mystrosporium aterrimum, B. & C, appears to be the conidial 

 stage. 



D. Spartinae, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. 11, p. 102. 



The mycelium foi'ms small (2-4 mm. long), oblong or elliptical, 

 black patches consisting of a thick growth of erect, simple, septate, 

 subnodulose, sterile liyphse, nearly hyaline at first, but soon opake, 

 130-176 X 6-9 //, and pale yellowish, prostrate hyphse, producing 

 fusoid-cylindrical or subfalcate, nucleate conidia 40-60 x3 jj.. Nest- 

 ling among the sterile hyphse are black, membranaceous, subovate 

 perithecia 5-3 mm. diam., with a very large opening above. Asci 

 clavate-cylindrical, 75x15 //, with imperfectly developed paraphyses. 

 Sporidia 8 in an ascus, oblong-cylindrical, yellowish (nearly hyaline), 

 slightly curved, 3-4-nucleate, becoming uniseptate, 18-20x4^5 /i. 

 Some sporidia were seen imperfectly 3-septate, but one septum seems 

 to he the normal. state. This is remarkable for the large apical open- 

 ing more like a half-grown Genangium than like an ostiolum. 



On dead sheaths of Spartina polystachya, Louisiana (Langlois). 



D. capnoides, (Ell.) 



Asterina capnoides, KH. Am. Nat. 1883, p. 318. 



Mycelium brown-black, branching, septate, epiphyllous. Co- 

 nidia brown, ovate, uniseptate, 10-12 x 6 fi. Macroconidia brown, ped- 

 icellate, submuriform, 3-septate, 35x15 [i. Perithecia brown-black, 

 subglobose, 50-100 n diam. Asci oblong-ovate, sessile, 8-spored, 

 35-40 X 11-16 n- Sporidia hyaline, subcymbiform, uniseptate, 2-seri- 

 ate, 10-17x4-6//. 

 , On living leaves of Asclepias Cornuti, Kansas. 



D. conglobktura, (B. & 0.) 



Asterina conglobata, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 9. 



Perithecia hypophyllous, globose, about 50 a, astomous, coarsely 

 cellular, membranaceous, in compact, subconfluent groups of 4r-6 on a 

 subcrustaceous mycelium. Asci obovate, 20-25 x 10 fi, without par- 

 aphyses. Sporidia oblong, uniseptate, hyaline, 6-8 x 2-2J [x. 



Description made out from specimens sent from Maine by Rev. 

 Jos. Blake, on leaves of Arbutus Uva-Ursi. 



