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or dying leaves of Funiperus communis. Decorah, Iowa, May, 
1882. Holway. 
Bulgaria Ophiobolus.—Cespitose, obconic, subinfundibuliform, 
3-3% of a centimeter high and broad, composed of two layers, 
separated by a gelatinous stratum, pruinose and dark olivaceous 
outside, disk nearly black, margin obtuse, entire; asci cylindsical, 
150 X 10-12». paraphyses filiform; sporidia vermiform-cylin- 
drical, multinucleate, curved or bent, rather narrower at one end, 
40-75 X 34. When dry, scarcely distinguishable, externally 
from B. inquinans Fr. On a decaying log. Decorah, Iowa, 
Sept., 1882. E. W. Holway, No. 280. 
stout, not distinctly enlarged above ; sporidia, mostly uniseriate, 
oblong-elliptical, often narrower at one end, 2-4 nucleate, yellow- 
ish, 13-15 X 3%—4n. Nearly allied to T. acerina, Pk. On dead 
pats of (maple?) Decorah, Iowa, Aug., 1882. E. W. Holway, 
05220: 
rather thin, orbicular, black within, surface covered with a 
-stro 
eum. On dead trunks or limbs of Populus. 
E. W. Holway, No. 145 
