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In Grev. XVI, p. 89, this is placed by Cooke in Amphisphceria as 

 having brown sporidia, but what we have taken for this species (on 

 white oak bark, Newfield), has hyaline sporidia. Berkeley, in Grev. 

 IV, p. 144, gives the sporidia as "shortly fusiform, oblique, uniseptate, 

 33 [J- long." 



M. latericoUis, (Fr.) 



Spharia Icuericollis, Fr. S. M. II, p. 464. 

 Melanopsamnia latericoUis, Sacc. Syll. 2259. 



Perithecia scattered or subgregarious, rarely 2-3-confluent, of 

 medium size, at first immersed, then nearly free, obliquely ovate or , 

 irregular, very black. Ostiolum generally lateral, straight or curved, 

 cylindrical, about as long as the perithecium. Asci oblong, stipitate, 

 8-spored, 80 x 14 ju. Sporidia biseriate, oblong-fusoid, obtuse at the 

 ends, straight or curved, uniseptate, sharply constricted at the septum, 

 cells 1-2-nucleate, slightly brownish, 24 x 7-8 //. 



On rotten wood, Bethlehem, Pa. 



M. recessa, (C. & P. 



spharia, recessa, C. & P. 29th. Rep. N. Y. Slate Mus. p. 61. 

 Melanopsamma recessa, Sacc, Syll. 2265. 



Perithecia gregarious, at first semiimmersed, smooth, flattened, 

 dark brown or black, 300 fi diam. Asci subclavate. Sporidia 1-2- 

 seriate, elliptical, uniseptate, deeply constricted at the septum, hyaline, 

 13-20x7-10 JUL. The perithecia have something of a discoid appear- 

 ance. 



On rotten wood,. New York State. 



M. enpressina, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. II, p. 103. 



Perithecia gregarious or scattered, emergent-superficial, subhys- 

 teriiform-elongated, J-^ mm. diam., rough, carbonaceo-membranaceous, 

 with a broad and rather depressed opening above, (probably with a 

 prominent ostiolum at first). Asci clavate-cylindrical, 55-70 x 10-1 2 fi, 

 with filiform paraphyses, and 8 biseriate, yellowish-hyaline, clavate-ob- 

 long, uniseptate, about 12x4 // sporidia. 



On bleached wood of cypress and red cedar, Louisiana (Langlois.) 



M. pseciWstoma, (B. & Br.) 



spharia pacilosloma, B. & Br. Brit. Fungi, No. 876, tab. 10, fig. 23. 

 Zignoella piecilostoma, Sacc. Syll. 3652. 

 Conispharia peecilostoma, Cke. Syn. 3334. 



Perithecia partly free, subglobose, opake. Ostiola variable, obso- 

 lete conic-cylindrical, frequently somewhat compressed. Asci short. 



