515 



(jriiegai'ious, semiimmersed. Perithecia ovate, black, small, less 

 than J mm. diam., raising the epidermis into minute, thickly scattered 

 pustules ruptured above by the slightly erumpent, conical ostiola. 

 Asci clavate. Sporidia allantoid, hyaline, 10 n long. Stylospores in 

 distinct perithecia with long;er necks, minute, straight, linear, 5 u long. 



On dead branches of Vaccinivm corymhosum, Newfield, N. J. 



This is a veiy unsatisfactory thing, for though not uncommon, \vc 

 have never found it mature. 



Cr. inordinJita, (B. & C.) 



SphtEria inordinata, B. & C. Grev. ilV, p. 146. 

 CryptosphtiEria znordinaia, Sacc. Syll. 686, Cke. tiyn. 4078. 



" Covered by the cuticle which is raised liy the subjacent peri- 

 thecia into little prominences which make the whole surface like a 

 rasp. Asci clavate. Sporidia sausage-shaped." 



On Hosa Icevigata, Carolina. 



CRYPTOVALSA, Ces. & De Not 



Schema. Sfer. p. 29. 



Stroma effused or subvalsoid, cortical, but sometimes lignicolous, 

 more or less blackened within. Perithecia immei-sed, irregularly scat- 

 tered or subvalsiform-aggregated, ostiola scarcely exserted. Asci 

 polysporous, aparaphysate. Sporidia allantoid, yellowish-hyaline. 

 Spermogonia, when present, cytisporoid. 



Cr. sparsa, E. & E. Proc. Acad. Nat Sci. Phil. July, 1890, p. 224. 



Perithecia with thick, coriaceous walls, black and shining inside, 

 a_i mm. diam., buried in the inner bark, either scattered singly or 

 oftener in valsoid groups of 3-4, faintly circumscribed, and the bark 

 around and under them more or less blackened, each cluster or single 

 perithecium raising the bark into a little pustule closely embraced by 

 the sublaciniately ruptured epidermis, attenuated above into short 

 necks terminating in more or less distinctly quadrisulcate ostiola erum- 

 pent in a small, pustuliform disk, but scarcely projecting. Asci polyspo- 

 rous, p. sp. 40-50 X 8-10 p. or, including the slender base, 70-75 p. 

 long. Sporidia allantoid, yellowish, moderately curved, with a nucleus 

 in each end. 6-7 x 1| /^. 



On dead oak limbs, Louisiana (Langlois). 



In the original diagnosis "p. sp.'" should have been omitted, and, 

 on a reexamination, we find no definite paraphyses. 



