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Perithecia gi-egarious, cmered by the blackened cuticle which is 

 slightly raised, but not fissured. Asci cylindrical, 75 x 5 fi. Sporidia 

 unisei'iate, oblong-elliptical, bi-own, 3-septate, 12-16 x 4-4| //(IS x 4 p. 

 Cke.) 



On dead canes of black and red raspberry, and on dead limbs of 

 Sassafras, Newfield, N. J. 



LINOSPORA, Fckl, 



Symb. p. 123.. 



Perithecia appearing late in the season, buried in the shield- 

 shaped, black, phyllogenous pseudostroma (which is sometimes want- 

 ing), generally solitary, beak subprominent, black, more or less elon- 

 gated. Asci cylindrical, 8-spored. Sporidia filiform, lying parallel 

 in the asci, hyaline or yellowish-hyaline. 



L. conflicta, (Cke.) 



Sphceria conjlicia, Cke. Grev. VII, p. \z-. 

 Linospora confiicta, Saoc. Syll-. 4095, Cke. Syn. 5842^ 

 Exsicc. Rab. V. E. 3759- 



.Spots ampliigenous, pale reddish-brown, definitely limited by a 

 narrow, darker Iwrder, sLil.)orbicular, 2-4 nun. iliaui., or often largo- 

 (1-2 cm.), with an irregular, subsinuous ontliue. Perithecia burioil in 

 the parenchyma of the leaf, globose, aliout 150 p. diam., with a papilli- 

 Ibrm ostiolum,the apex slightly cruuipent and rupturing the epidermic 

 in an operculoid mannei'. Asci oblong-cylindrical, sessile. 8-spoi-ed. 

 aparaphysate, 75-85 X 12 /i. Sjioridia sublasciculate, four above and 

 four below, cla rate-cylindrical, 40-45 x 2i-3 ii, (€0 //. long, Cke.), 

 3-6-septate , yel 1 o wi sh-hy aline> 



On leaves of Quercu)^ dens'ufl.oru, Taznalpais, California (Hark- 



ness). 



The description is drawn from specc. seat by Dr. Plarkness, 



L. ferruginea, E. & M. Am. Nat. Dee. 1884, p. 69. 



Spots liffht yellowish-brown, border darker, narr<i\v and slightly 

 raised, 1^-2 mm. diam. Perithecia black, subglobose, 150 // diam., 

 immersed and covei'ed liy the blackened cuticle which is perlbratcd 

 bv the scarcely prominent osti(dum. Asci cylindrical, 75-80x7 «. 

 sessile or nearly so, with abundant filifoi'ui paraphyses, 8-spoi'ed. 

 Sporidia vermiform, yellowish, faintly nucleate, acute at each cnil. 



35-45 xlj II. 



On leaves of Andromeda ferraginen, Florida (Dr. Martin), 



