564 



Stroma effused, subrotund, brownish-black. Perithecia emergent, 

 crowded, ovate, depressed or subumbilicate at the apex. Asci clavate. 

 Sporidia elliptical, brown, at length uniseptate, not constricted, 8x4 //. 



On bark oi Fraxinus, United States. 



. V. BeanmOntii, (B. & C.) 



Hypoxylon Beaumontii, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 93. 

 Valsana f Beaumontii, Sacc. Syll. 284S. 



Perithecia globose, connate, rather small, at first slightly brown, 

 then black, smooth, with a distinct, papilliform ostiolum. Asci linear. 

 Sporidia uniseriate, oblong-elliptical, uniseptate, 10 /i long. 



Found in Alabama by Beaumont. 



Species imperfectly Icnown. 

 V. nigrofacta, C. & E. (sub Valm) Grev. VI, p. 12, tab. 95, fig. 4, 



Perithecia few, large, covered by the blackened, shining epider- 

 mis. Ostiola convergent. Asci cylindrical. Sporidia uniseriate, nar- 

 row-elliptical, uniseptate, strongly constricted, brown, 25 x 9 ^u, cells 

 almost globose. 



On dead limbs of Sassafras, Newfield, N. J. 



We have never seen specc. of this in fruit. 



V. Diospyri, (Schw.) 



Spharia Diospyri, Schw. Syn, Car. No. 57. 

 Valsaria, Diospyri, Sacc. Syll, 2813. 



Pustules prominent, variable, 2 lines broad, covered by the epi- 

 dermis, which is finally blackened by the extruded sporidia, at length 

 erumpent and bare. Perithecia minute, globose, nionostichous on the 

 surface of an innate tubercle, and closely covered by the epidermis. 

 Xecks short. Ostiola minute, obsoletely-prominent, at length perfo- 

 rated. Stroma brown. 



On dead limbs oi Diospy^ros, Carolina (Schw.). 



Sporidia (fide De Not.) ellipsoid, two-celled, brown, slightly .con- 

 stricted. No measurements of sporidia given. 



V. Gleditschise, (Schw.) 



SphcEria Gleditschi^E , Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1435, id. Syn. Car. 31. 

 Melogramma Gleditschicc, Berk, in Grev. IV, p. 98, Cke. Syn. 1184. 

 BotryosphcEria Gleditscki^, Sacc. Syll. 1792. 



Variable, black, with a brown strpma. Perithecia conical, con- 

 nate, stuffed, astomous. 



On bark of Gleclitschki, Carolina (Schw.), Pennsylvania (Mich- 

 ener). 



