1885.] 



CANADIAN FUNGI. 



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sent with a collection of chens and mosses from Labrador, by Mr L. 

 M. Turner, to Mr. Everhart for determination. 



Lycopekdon TuRNfiRi, E. & E — Peridium obovate, 4—6 cm. in 

 diameter, olive brown, rather firm, clothed with a coat of rather short 

 subspinose- warts which finally fall ofl: and leave the surface smooth. 

 Sterile base distinct, about 1 cm. thick, passing gradually into the rather 

 dense mass, dirty gray (when cleared of spores) capillitium without any 

 definite columella. Spores globose, yellowish-olive, echinate-verrucose, 

 4—5 with a slight rudimentary pedicel. The peridium is contracted 

 and subplicate below but not stipitate, and is finally irregularly ruptured 

 above. 



Bo VISTA TABAcmA, Sacc. Mich. II, p. 565. —Globose, rather 

 large (4—5 cm.), nearly rootless. Peridium membranaceo-coriaceous, 

 lead-colored, finally variously ruptured. Nucleus compact-lanose, elas- 

 tic, tobacco-colored, composed or rather rigid, many times dichotomously 

 branched, dark brown (atrofaligineis) tarirads, paler above, the larger 

 branches 10—12 (J- thick. Spores globose, minute, smooth, with a single 

 nucleus, 3i— 4 /^-, yellow-olive with a minute rudimentary pedicel. On 

 the ground, Canada. Le Metayer. 



We have not seen this species, and copy the description from Michelia. 

 SPH^BIACE^. 



PoDOSPH^RA K™zei, Cda.— On leaves of young seedling elms, 

 Ottawa. 



Pleospora herbarum (Pers.)— Dead stems of Papaver nudicauUs, 

 Cape Chudleigh. Sporidia 30—35 x 16—18 



Pleospora hispida, Niessl. — Dead stems of Draba, Digger's 

 Island (Hudson strait.) Perithecia 200—300 /■>■ in diameter, fringed at 

 base, with brown creeping threads and a few spreading hairs, ostiolum 

 also surrounded with a fringe of brown, sparingly septate, spreading 

 hairs 60—75 P- long. Asci 80—100 x 20—25 contracted at base into a 

 short pedicel. Sporidia oblong-elliptic, 5— 7-septate and muriform, straw 

 yellow at first, becoming dark brown, 20—26 x 10—13 fJ-, mostly constricted 

 about the middle. Agrees well with Niessl's description and with the 

 specimens in Eab- Winter's Fungi 2857, except that the hairs are not as 

 evenly distributed over the perithecia which, excepting the basal and 

 apical fringe are nearly bald. On the same stems are smaller perithecia 

 filled with stylospores oblong-cylindrical, 3-septate, 20 x 4 P-. 



Sph^rella STELiiARmEARUM, Karst.— On dead stems and leaves 

 of Stellaria longipes, Cape Prince of Wales. Also on Brdba alpina, Not- 

 tingham's Island, Hudson Strait. Sporidia 20—27 x 5—7 /J-. 



Khytisma sALiciisnJM, Pers. — Leaves of Salix herbacea. 



LoPHODERMiUM ARUNDiNACEUM (Schrad.)— On ^??/mws mollis, Dig- 

 ger's Island, Hudson's Strait. 



NuMMULARiA PEZizoiDES, E. & E., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XI, p. 74. 

 Will have to be abandoned, being in fact not specifically distinct from 

 Nrepanda (Fr.) 



