BO o General Notes. 
BOTANY. 
pears thickly dotted with little circular openings; asci clavate: 
cylindrical, 40-45 x 5-6»; sporidia biseriate, fusiform, at first 4 
nucleate, the endochrome is soon once and at length 3 oF: 
divided, 11-15 x 114-2”, There is the appearance of a tait 
bristle-like appendage at each end of the young spore. On 
shoots of Quercus coccinea. Newfield, N. J., May, 1882. a 
upper part of the dead shoots, for a foot or more, is entirely 0 
cupied by the fungus, which is definitely limited, but scarti 
marked on the border by any black circumscribing line. 
iaporthe Conradit—Perithecia scattered, minute, Oep! Bh 
spherical, barely covered by the epidermis, not penetrating 5i 
wood nor circumscribed by any black line; ostiolum cylinant 
straight, rough, black, abruptly pointed above; asc! subcyl Shee 
cal, 35-40 X 6-74; sporidia biseriate, ovate-elliptical, umseP 
hyaline, scarcely constricted, 6-8 x 214-34. On dead stem 
branches of Corema Conradii. Willow Grove, N. J., May, 
hyaline, 11-13 x 4-414». On dead limbs of Amelane 
densis. Decorah, lowa, July, 1882. E. W. Holway. 
Leptosphæria Xerophylli—Perithecia scattered, SU 
150-190 diam., sunk about half way into the substance © 
leaf; ostiolum, obtuse, with a rather large opening, elevating,“ 
splitting the cuticle by which it remains partly covera 
