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appear umbilicate. Asci 75— 111 x 15— 17 oblong-cylindrical, abruptly 

 contracted below into a short, stout base, and surrou:ided by filiform 

 paraphyses. Sporidia 3 in an ascus, broad fusifojm. or clavate fusiform, 

 narrowed below into an acut':>, awl-shaped base, yellowish, multiseptate 

 (8—12) and submuriform, 30—35 x 7—8/^-. On bark of some living conif- 

 erous tree, Wash. Terr., leg. W. -N. Suk3d )rf, 210 in part, com. C. J. 

 Sprague. 



Sph^ria ( WmTERiA) RHUiNA, E. &E.— Pcrithecia erumpent, densely 

 gregarious, subseriate, subglobose, black (i— i mm.) membranaceous, thin 

 and collapsing so as to become concave or patelliform. Ostiolum papilli- 

 formand mostly 4— 5-stellate-cleft. Asci 45— 60 x 7—8 /-'•, broadest in the 

 middle. Paraphyses stout, linear, nucleolate. Sporidia biseriate, fusi- 

 form, yellowish, nucleolate, straight or slightly curved, sometimes 

 strongly so, 20—25 x 2i— 3 ,'->-. On weather-beaten wood of Bhus copalUna, 

 Newfield,N.J., May, 1885. 



AsTERiNA Pearsoni, E. & E.— Perithecia minutc (100 /^-) flat, super- 

 ficial, obscurely perforated above, of close, cellular structure, with a 

 scanty, subradiating mycelium around the margin. Asci sessile, oblong, 

 obtuse, 40 X 15 p-, without paraphyses. Sporidia biseriate, clavate-ob- 

 long, granular, becoming uniseptate and slightly constricted at the sep- 

 tum, 15—20 X 3i— 4i acute below, obtuse above, hyaline. Has much 

 the same appearance as A. GaulthericB, Curtis. On living canes of culti- 

 vated blackberry, Vineland, JS^. J., May, 1885, Col. A. W. Pearson. 



Harknessia c4udata, E. & E.— Acervuli innate-erumpent, glo- 

 bose, at first entirely covered by the epidermis which is finally pierced 

 with a circular opening revealing the mass of dark brown spores which 

 at length ooze out in the form of a small black globule. Spores fusiform- 

 elliptical, brown, 15-20 x 6—8 /^-, on cylindrical, hyaline, 12—15 x 21 — 3 /J- 

 basidia and with a bristle-like, hyaline, nearly straight or slightly curved 

 apical appendage 15 — 25 m long and not quite as stout as the basidia 

 w^hich remain permanently attached to the base of the spore. Appa- 

 rently the stjdosporous stage of Valsa farinosa, Ell. See Bull. Ton. 

 Bot. Club, IX, p. 99. On dead oak leaves and twigs, Newfield, J. 



Harkkessia hyalina, E. & E.— Acervuli innate, subglobose (imm.) 

 covered by the epidermis which is elevated and ruptured above (some- 

 times in a stellate manner), revealing the mass of spores which ooze out 

 in a small, whitish globule. Spores oblong-fusiform, hyaline, or with a 

 yellowish shade, 20—25 x 4—6 with^ a bristle-like, apical appendage, 

 straight or slightly curved, 15—20 /->- long ; basidia short, cylindrical or 

 subcorneal, 6—10 x 4 z^. The general appearance is much like that of 

 H. caudata, E. & E., but the pustules are not as prominent. Varies 

 from the type in its hyaline spores, but all the other characters are those 

 of Harknessia as originally published by Cooke in Grevillea IX, p. 85. 



Phitsalospora quercifolia. E. & E.— Perithecia i— i mm. in 

 diameter, globose with a light colored nucleus, buried in the substance 



