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sphcBria) with a more or less distinct cap of black, carbonaceous 

 matter which is irregularly ruptured by the enjergent ostiolum. 



On a decaying log of Platanus occidentalis, Flatbush, Long 

 Island, N. Y. (Zabriskie). 



M. Arabidis, Johans. Svamp. Island, p. 169, tab. XXIX, fig. 11. 



Perithecia scattered or gregarious, depressed-spherical, black or 

 cinereous-black, pierced with a round pore above, 180-200 ;i diani. 

 Asci cylindric-clavate, short-pedicellate, paraphysate, 8-spored, 54-60 x 

 8-10 fjt. Sporidia biseriate, cylindric-fusoid, hyaline, 3-septate, not con- 

 stricted, second cell scarcely or only sliglitly enlarged, straight or 

 curved, 22-28x4-5 //. 



On leaves of Arabia alpina, Kerortusok, Greenland. 



The Greenland specc. have asci 75-90 x 10 a, sporidia 25-28 x 

 3-4 fJL. 



M. Cassiopes, Rostr. Fungi Griinl. p. 561 (No. 181). 



Perithecia scattered, semiimmersed. Asci cj'lindric-clavate, 37- 

 40x10 fi, paraphysate, 8-spored. Sporidia biseriate, fusoid-oblong, 

 obtuse, 3-septate, hyaline, 12-15x5 //. 



On dry leaves of Gassiope tetragona, Isortok Kingua, Greenland. 



M. anisoraetra, (Cke.& Hark.) 



Spharia anisometra, Cke. & Hark. Grev. IX, p. 86. 

 Meiasphtsria ahisometra, Sacc. Syll. II, p. 163. ^ 



Endophlosa anisometra, Cke. Grev. XVII, p. 89. 

 Exsicc. Ell. N. A. F. 890. 



Perithecia evenly and thickly scattered, crunipent, miniite (150 //). 

 subglobose, black, rough, with a papilliform ostiolum soon perforated. 

 Asci oblong-clavate, sessile, 70-75 x 12 n, with abundant paraphyses. 

 Sporidia lanceolate, 1-4-septate, hyaline, ends acute while lying in the 

 asci, obtuse when free, 19-22 x 4-5 // (26 x 8 p, Cooke). The mature 

 sporidia are slightly olivaceous and constricted above the middle. In 

 the specc. distributed in N. A. P. the sporidia are mostly less than 5 p 



thick. 



On twigs of MimuluH glutinosus, Lonicera, Cupressus, Euca- 

 lyptus, Rubus, Draccena, and on pods of Hobinia, California. 



M. subcutknea, (E. & E.) 



Sphceria subcutanea, C. & E. Grev, VII, p, 4:. 



MelasphcBria subcutanea, Sacc. ,Syll. II, p. 167, Cke. Syn. 4163. 



Perithecia scattered, semierumpent, ovate-globose, black, thin- 



