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*** Mostly on herbaceous stems; s^ioridin 5- or more-septate. 

 L. stictostoma, (B. & C.) 



Sphceria stictostoma, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 151. 

 LeptospkcEria stictostoma, Sacc. Syll. 3162. 

 Heptameria stictostoma, Cke. Syn. 4952. 



Perithecia covered by the cuticle, causing little corresponding 

 prominences pierced by the ostiola, at length free, subconical. Asci 

 oblong. Sporidia biseriate, cymbiform, 5-septate, constricted at the 

 septa, 20 fjL long. 



On some herbaceous plant, Connecticut. 



L. stictoides, (B. & C.) 



sphceria stictoides, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 149, 

 LepiosphcEria stictoides, Sacc. SyU. 3171. 

 Heptameria stictoides, Cke. Syn. 4961. 



Forming little irregular, depressed spicules surrounded by the 

 cuticle. Sporidia nearly biconical, one division larger than the other, 

 5-septate, consti'icted at the middle septum. No measurements given. 



On Liriodendron, North Carolina. 



L. Vahlii, Rostr. Fungi Gronl. p. 557 (No. 162). 



HyphjE pale brown, with short, inflated joints. Perithecia de- 

 pressed-spherical, umbilicate, papillate. Asci numerous, elongated- 

 clavate, long-pedicellate, 90-100 x 11-13 fi, with copious, filiform par- 

 aphyses. Sporidia biseriate, cymbiform-fusoid, dark, 5-septate, 20-25 

 X 6-7 fjL, cells 1-2-nucleate. 



On dry stems of Melandrium triflorum, collected by Vahl, at 

 L'manak, Greenland. 



L. striata, Winter, Hedwlgia 1872, p. 140. 



Perithecia membranaceous, globose, with a small ostiolum, some- 

 what wrinkled, brown. Asci elongated-oblong, sessile, 8-spored, 90 x 

 ] 2 ji, with simple, filiform paraphyses longer than the asci. Sporidia 

 fusoid, 5-septate, each cell with a large oil globule, greenish, the epis- 

 pore marked with longitudinal stripes, 35 x 5 /i. 



On stems of Veroiiica alpina, Greenland. 



L. Bocconise, (C. & E.) 



Spht^ria Bocconics, C. & H. Grev. VII, p. lo, 

 LeptosphcBria Bocconicz, Sacc. Syll. 2901. 

 Heptameria BocconicB, Cke. Syn. i^jo^. 

 Exsicc. BU. N. A. F. 586. 



Perithecia scattered, bnried and, wlien the epidermis falls away, 

 with the rounded apex projecting, membranaceous, subglobose, brown- 

 ish-black. Asci clavate, 75 X 12 /j, para phy sate. Sporidia biseriate, 



