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ln'anaceous, minulel}' and indistinctly parenchymatic, yellowish, inclin- 

 ing to reddish. Asci cylindric-clavate, obtusely rounded above, briefly 

 stipitate below, 40^5, or more rarely 60-70 x 5-7 //, without paraph- 

 jses, 8-spored. Sporidia distichous or obliquely monostichous, elliptic- 

 cylindrical, uniseptate, 10-13 x 3-4- /£, cells equal, 2-nucleate, hyaline. 

 On stumps of orange trees, Louisiana (Langlois). 



N. niicr6spora, C. & E, Grev. V, p. 53. 



Cespitose, bursting out through cracks in the bark in groups of 

 3-15. Perithecia subglobose, 150-200 fi diameter, orange-red, seated 

 on a scanty, white, web-like mycelium, collapsing above, with a papil- 

 liform ostiolum. Asci cylindrical, 50-60 x 5-6 // (p. sp.). Sporidia 

 ■elliptical, uniseptate, hyaline, 6-7x3|-4 //. Groups of perithecia ^-1 

 .mm. across. Stroma not conspicuous. 



On bark of dead Magnolia, Newfield, N. J., and on bark of dead 

 beech. Lake Nipigon, Canada. 



In the Newfield specimens the perithecia are only partially col- 

 lapsed above so as to appear truncate, 



N. aureofulva, C. & E. Grev. VII, p. 8. 



Exsicc. EU. N. A. F. 574. 



With the same habit as the preceding species, but perithecia larger 

 (Jmm.), subglobose, smooth, pale golden-yellow, with the minute ostio- 

 lum darker. Asci cylindrical, 50 x 6-7 /<. Sporidia biseriate, oblong- 

 fusoid, 8-12x3 [i. 2-nucleate, becoming tardily uniseptate, hyaline. 

 Stroma pale, flattish, scarcely rising above the epidermis. 



'On bark of Magnolia glauca, Newfield, N. J. 



N. infusaria, Cke. & Hark. Grev. XII, p. 101. 



Cespitose, erumpent, pale red. Perithecia few, oval, soft-waxy, 

 subconfluent, smooth, glabrous, 5-10 on a stroma. Asci cylindrical, 

 •8-spored. Sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, obtuse, uniseptate, not con- 

 stricted, hyaline, 10x4^ fi. Conidia {Fusarium Acacice, Cke. <fe 

 Hark.), either accompanying the perithecia on the same stroma or pro- 

 duced in separate pustules of earlier growth, on a pale red, pulvinate 

 stroma, curved, hyaline, acute at each end, 3-septate, 30-40 x2| ;i. 



On Acacia twigs, California (Harkness). 



N. atrofiisca (Schw.) 



Sphisria airofusca, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1429. 

 Exsicc. Ell. & Evrht. N. A. F. 2d Ser. 1547. 



Stroma pulvinate, subcarnose, wood-color inside, darker outside, 

 •small (I mm. or about that), erumpent through the epidermis, by the 



