mi 



mm. across. Peritliecia in a single stroma, kw .ot numerons, generally 

 crowded, rarely subconcentrically arranged, subspliseroid or angular;^ 

 from mutual pressure, small, necks converging. Ostiola short and 

 small or oftener more or less elongated, rougli, snlcate-cleft, 3-6-sided, 

 connate, at least below. Asci cylindric-clarate, 40-50 x 5-6 /a (p. sp). 

 Sporidia crowded or subbiscriate, allantoid, yellowish, T-11 (mostly 

 7_9)xli-2 ft, (8-12xl|-2 /jl, Sacc). Spermog-onia many-celled, 

 larger than the ascigerous stromata. Spermatia filiform, curved, 

 20-25 pt long, issuing in yellow cirrhi. 



Common on limlis of various deciduous iTees throughout the 

 United States. 



Often when the pustules are crowded, a single circumscribing 

 line surrounds an entire group, and the surface of the inner bark is 

 uniformly blackened. As far as the s]3ecc. above quoted are con- 

 cerned, -we can find no distinctive characters to separate Valsa ven- 

 triosa and V. teU'ciploa from this species, and have therefore included 

 them in Eu. stellulata, (see Cke. Valsei of the U. S. p. 112). 



Eu. Vitis, (Schw.) 



Sphteria Vitis, Schw. Syu. Car. No. 117, Syn. N, Am, 1362. 

 Valsa Vitis, Cke. Valsei of the U. S. p. 113. 

 Euiypa viticola, Sacc. Syll. 669. 

 SphcEria propagata, Plowr. Grev. VII, p. 73. 

 Valsa (Eutypella) Vitis, Cke. Grev. XIV, p. 45. 

 Exsicc. Rav. F. Am. 363, 664, 



Perithecia 3-4, rather large, nestling in the inner bark and ren- 

 dering the surface bullate. Ostiola irregular, subpulverulent, black, 

 and (sec. Cke. Grev. XIV, p. 45), distinctly sulcate, and sporidia (see 

 Valsei U." S. p. 1 13) 12-14 pt long. 



Rather rare on young shoots of grape vines, Carolina (Schw.), 

 Pennsylvania (Michener), New York (Peck). 



It is doubtful whether this is more than a var. of Entypdla 

 stellulata, (Fr.). , 



Eu. fraxiiiicola, (C. «& P.) 



Valsa fraxinicola, C. & P. 2gth Rep. N. Y. State Mus. p. 59. 



Perithecia 6-12, subcircinately arranged and buried in the un- 

 altered inner liark, about I mm. diam., black, thick-walled, with con- 

 verging necks and stout, (juadrisulcate, black ostiola erumpent in a 

 .^hort, compact fascicle in the center of the pustule, closely embraced 

 by the perforated, slightly pustulate epidermis, above which they pro- 

 ject but slightly. Asci clavate, p. sp. about 35x 5 //. Sporidia 

 biseriate, allantoid, yellowish, 6-8 x 2 ^, moderately curved. 



