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1539. Sphceria monstrosa, Schw. — Gregarious, seated on a 

 black, woody crust, rather large, sometimes very large and deformed, 

 swollen at the base, narrowed above into a thick, sulcate, pyramidal 

 ostiolum. Substance carbonaceous. Covered entirely, even the 

 ostiolum, with a dense coat of brown, subrigid hairs. Has some 

 resemblance to some forms of Eutypa spinosa; occasionally denuded. 



On chestnut wood, Bethlehem, Pa. 



Pertusce. 



1587. Sphceria inclinata, Schw. — Scattered or aggregated, 

 erumpent through the fibers of the lower stratum of the bark where 

 the epidermis has fallen away, at first immersed, then exposed. Peri- 

 thecia ovate-globose, minute, obliquely inclined, with the ostiolum 

 comparatively large and finally deciduous; then the perithecia are 

 simply perforated, black and rugose. 



On twigs of Viburnum, Bethlehem, Pa. (Schw.). 



1589. Sphceria glandicola, Schw. — This (sec. Cke. Grev. XVI, 

 p. 91) is a Phoma with sporules 5x3^, basidia 20 x 3 //. 



1590. Sphceria pericarpii, Schw., and 



1583. Sphceria Surculi, Fr., are also (sec. Cke. 1. c.) only specicp 

 of Phoma. 



1591. Sphceria tingens, Schw. (not Lophidium- tingens, Ell.) — 

 Scattered, conically beaked, at first immersed, then adnate with a 

 flattened base. Perithecia compressed-conical, scarcely rugose, ros- 

 trate, with a thick, deformed, subshining ostiolum. The bark i? 

 blackened around the perithecia. 



In cracks of the bark on young branches of Sassafras, Bethlehem, 

 Pa. (Schw.). 



1595. Sphceria elliptica, Schw. — Rather large, elliptical, elon- 

 gated, scattered, only slightly elevated, flattened, base subimmersed, 

 black, at length perforated with a central pore, at first crowned with 

 a papilliform ostiolum which is finally deciduous. 



On Viburnum, Mauch Chunk, Pa. (Schw.). 



1596. Sphceria deformata, Schw. — Widely scattered, minute, 

 protruding and denuded, of an irregular-cylindrical shape, very black, 

 surface subrugose and uneven; ostiolum indistinct. At length per- 

 forated. With the preceding species. 



