1890.] FAIRMAN FUNGI OF WESTERN NEW YORK. 49 



4. Lophiostoma Pruni, E. and E., (Plate 4, figs. 10-11). 

 Jour. Mycol, vol. 4, page 64. Also figured in Berlese, Icones 



Fungorum, Fasc. I Part I, Tab. VI, fig. 3. 



On Prunus serotina, Lyndonville, April, 1888. 



5. Lophiostoma rhopaloides, Sacc, var. pluriseptata, n. var. 

 Differs from the type in having sporidia three to five septate, instead 



of three septate. 



On dead branches of Maple, May, 1889. 



6. Pseudovalsa Fairmani, Ellis and Everhart, n. sp. (Plate 

 3, fi gs- 1, 2, 3, 10, 11). 



*Stromata convex pulvinate 1-1 }4 m. m. diam., formed of the slightly 

 altered substance of the inner bark, the surface only sub-carbonized and 

 blackened, not surrounded by any distinct circumscribing line, covered 

 by the epidermis which is pierced by the stout, short, cylindrical or 

 conical ostiola, with smooth or quadrisulcate tips. Perithecia 4 to 8 

 in a stroma, closely packed, ovate or subangular from compression, 

 about yi m. m. diam. with whitish, waxy contents. Asci (p. sp.) 

 75-85x20 /j.., mostly only six (6) spored. Sporidia oblong cylindrical, 

 yellowish, 3 septate, 30-40x5-7 ,«., slightly constricted at the septa. 

 The young stromata contain an abundance of pycnidial spores, (about 

 the size and shape of the ascospores) borne on stout or branching 

 sporophores about as long as the spores themselves. 



On dead hickory limbs (Carya), Lyndonville, N. Y. 



(In one specimen 5 -septate sporidia were found.) 



7. Vermicularia phlogina, Fairman. 

 Botanical Gazette, March, 1887. 



On leaves of Phlox divaricata, Ridgeway, N. Y. 



8. Vermicularia solanoica, n. sp. 



Perithecia superficial, numerous, black, 150-175 m. m. in diam. 

 Bristles few, mostly uniseptate, at times continuous, of various lengths, 

 the longer ones gradually attenuated to an acute tip, brownish, with tips 

 subhyaline, 75-100 fi. long and 5 fi. wide at the base. Conidia oblong, 

 fusoid, subarcuate 25-30x2^2-3^. Endochrome light green, continu. 

 ous or faintly divided near the center, granular, nucleate. 



*In the pycnidial stage the fungus might be taken for a Hendersonula. In 

 this stage the stroma is orbicular, depressed, black outside, whitish waxy, horny within, 

 divided into ovate, globose or angular cells from the surface of which spring the 

 sporophores (40-60x3 fi.) bearing at their extremeties the oblong cylindrical, subhyaline 

 mostly 3 septate sporules (35-50x6-9 //.) generally slightly constricted at the septa. The 

 surface of the stroma in this pycnidial or the Hendersonula stage is at times indistinctly 

 papillose from the slightly prominent ostiola. This stroma is also seated on the inner bark 

 and erumpent through the epidermis. At first the pycnidial spores are only granular and 

 nucleate, but soon become from three to four septate in the progress of development. 



