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tical, 4 mm. long, depressed, adnate to the inner bark. Conceptacle 

 nearly free, thin, fragile, opake, black, attached to the epidermis so 

 that when this is torn away, the scutelliforui base remains. Stroma 

 pulveraceous, olivaceous, becoming dark brown. Perithecia larger 

 than in the allied species, few, aggregated, erect-convergent, ovate, 

 fragile. Disk erumpent. elliptical, minute, black. Ostiola obsoletely 

 prominent, scattered. Asci clavate, stipitate, polysporous. Sporidia 

 numerous, crowded, allantoid, yellowish, 5-7| ft long. 

 On bark of dead birch trees, Pennsylvania (Schw.). 



SUBORDER. DOTHIDEACEJ;. 



Compound. Stroma pulvinate, effused or linear, coriaceous or 

 subcarbonaceous, black. Perithecia reduced to mere cells, (generally 

 peripherical) in the substance of the stroma, and not separable from, it, 

 papillate or simply perforated. Asci 4-8-spore(L Sporidia hyaline, 

 yellowish or brown. 



PHYLLACHORA, Nitschke. 



in Fckl, Symb. p. 216. 



Stroma variable in shape, elliptical, oblong or lanceolate, covered 

 l)y the epidermis, black, moi'e or less roughened by the apices of the 

 small, ascigerous cells, which are buried in the stroma, and often at 

 first contain sp'ermatia. Sporidia ovate, elliptical or oblong, continu- 

 ous and mostly hyaline. x\.sci subcylindrical. 



* On dicotyledonous plants. 



Ph. Dalibardse, Pk. 27th Rep.' p. 109, PL I, figs 7-9. 



Stromata scattered, innate and subprominent on both sides of the 

 leaf, which is stained immediately around them reddish-brown, small, 

 less than ^ mm. diam., subtuberculose-roughened, black. Ascigerous 

 cells, 6-.12 in a stroma, subglobose, 75-80 n diam. Asci oblong-fusoid, 

 50-60 X 10 fi. Sporidia crowded-biseriate, oblong-fusoid, hyaline, con- 

 tinuous, 12-16 X 3-3i II. 



On living leaves of Dalibarda repens, Porestburg, N. Y. 



Described from a specimen sent by Mr. Peck. 



Ph. Wittrockii, (Erikss.) 



Dothidea IVittrockii, Erikss. Fungi Scand. No. 40. 

 Phyllachora Wittrockii, Sacc. Syll. 5130. 



Stromata effused, surrounding 2 or 3 of the swollen, upper inter- 



