150 



L. ovina, (Pers.) 



Spharia ovina, Pers. Syn. p. 71. 

 Sphesria tnucida, a. b. Tode Fungi Meckl. II, p. 16. 

 Sphieria lichenoides. Sow. Eng. Fungi tab. 373, fig. I2. 

 Lasiosphceria ovina, Ces. & De Not. Schema. 

 Leptaspora ovina, Fckl. Symb. p. 143.* 

 Exsicc. Rab. Herb. Mycol. 730. — id. F. E. 1444. — Thum. M. U. 968. — Sacc. Myc. Ven. 1155, 

 Rehni Asc. 788.— Sydow M. March. 852, 2144.— EU. N, A. F. 892. 



Peritliecia scattered or gregarious, superficial, spherical, clothed 

 with a thin, wliite, closely adnate, felt-lilvc coat, except the black, 

 papilliforni ostiolum, 400-500 p. diam. Asci, long clavate-fusoid, with 

 a long stipe, 8-spored, 140-200x12-17 p.. Sporidia irregularly 

 arranged, Tcrmiform-cylindrical, mostly curved, continuous, 35-53 x 

 3-4 fi. Paraphyses slender, conglutinated. 



Common on rotten ^\•ood. 



L. stiipea, E. «& E. Bull. Wash. Coll. I, p. 4. (Plate 19) 



Perithecia superficial, gregarious, ovate, about 1 mm. high, densely 

 clothed with dull brown or tow-colored, continuous hairs 200 p long 

 and 5-6 jx thick, often impcifectly toothed towards their extremities. 

 Ostiola obtuse, strongly 4-ribbed. Asci 170-200 x 18-20 p (p. sp. 120- 

 150 ^ long), bi'oadest in the middle, attenuated above and contracted 

 into a stipe-like base. Paraphyses abundant, stout, granular, eva- 

 nescent. Spoi'idia overlapping and crowded subbiseriate, cylindrical, 

 curved, obtuse, granular with a large nucleus in the center, pale brown, 

 34-38 X 8-11 //, ends rounded and obtuse. 



On a dead limb of Tsuga Pattoniana, Mt. Paddo, Washington 

 (Suksdorf). 



D. Sporidia swollen above, hroicv, voiitinuoufi. 



L. Newfleldiana, E. & E. (in Heib.) 



Perithecia gregarious, superficial, at first depressed-globose, be- 

 coming ovate-conical, j-1 mm. high and |-| mm. broad, clothed (more 

 densely below) with soft, spreading, brown, septate hairs; similar 

 hairs, more or less branched and loosely interwoven, overspread the 

 matrix between the perithecia forming a loosely-felted, pilose sub- 

 iculum, which finally disappears more or less, as also do the hairs 

 that clothe the perithecia. Asci sul)cylindrical, 150-200 x 8 /i, with 

 abundant paraphyses. Sporidia uniseriate, not crowded, at first hya- 

 line and vermiform-cylindrical, nucleate, 35 x 4 p, with a short, horn- 

 like appendage at each end, the upper end finally enlarging to a 

 narrow-elliptical, brown head 12-14x5-7 //, with a short (7 /i), curved 



