1885.] 



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of the leaf but promiuent so as to show distinctly on both sides, covered 

 by the epidermis which is slightly blackened and closely adherent to the 

 perithecia, ostiolum papilliform, "barely visible through the ruptured epi- 

 dermis. The perithecia finally collapse more or less distinctly. Asci 

 oblong, 75—80 X 12 !J- w4th a short, abruptly contracted base. Sporidia 

 biseriate, narrow-elliptical or broad-fusiform, granular, hyaline, 15— 2o 

 X 6—8 With Hcirknessia hyalina, E. & E., which is probably its 

 stylosporous stage, on dry, dead oak leaves [Q. coccinea) still hanging on 

 limbs cutoff last reason. Newfield, N. J., June, 1885. 



^CLDiUM RCESTELioiDES, E. & E.— Hypophyllous, on slightly thick- 

 ened, yellowish spots which finally become purplish, ^cidia clustered, 

 subcircinate, 15—10 iu a group, hemispheric and closed at first, then cam- 

 panulate or short-cylindrical with the margin about 6-cleft and a litt le 

 spreading and finally lacerated to the base into narrow segments about 

 1 mm. long after the manner of Roestelia lacerata, Tul. Spores pale, 

 subglobose, about 22 /-'- in diameter, with a thick, finely sculptured epi- 

 spore giving the appearance of a broad, band-like margin around the 

 spore. On leaves of Sidalcea, Spokane Co., Wash. Terr., W. Suks- 

 dorf , no. 144. 



Steganosporium cenaxgioides. Ell. & Rothrock. —Stroma erum- 

 pent, tuberculiform, then excavated and discoid above, the margin at 

 length expanding so as to resemble a brown, thin substipitate Peziza. 

 Spores broad, oblong-fusiform or ovate-oblong, endochrome 5 — 8 times 

 divided and muriform, 35 — 10 x 10—15 /^-, pedicellate. The expanded 

 Oenan^mm-like stroma appears finally, in some cases at least, to produce 

 the "Fusisporium Berenice" (I^. A. F. 876.) The whole thing is a curi- 

 ous and rather anamalous production, the true nature of which is not 

 yet well understood. On dead limbs of Ahies halsamea. West Chester, 

 Pa., Dr. J. T. Rothrock. See A. F. no. 1379. 



Septonema stjbramosum, E. & E.— Effused, black, consisting of 

 subfasciculate, erect, simple or branched closely, septate threads, 70—100 

 M long or more and 6—7 /J- thick. These threads are sometimes con- 

 stricted at intervals as if composed of separate concatenated spores yet 

 they separate but sparingly. The terminal cells are nearly hyaline. 

 This is much like S. toruloidea, C. & E., differing principally in the 

 threads not separating into separate spores. Possibly not distinct from 

 S. atrum, Sacc, but we have no specimen of that species. On weather- 

 beaten wood, Coos Co., Oregon, Feb. 1885, W. S. Carpenter, no. 28. 



RHmoTRiCHUM CARNETJM, E. &E.— Forms a loose, floccose stratum, 

 dull white at first, then flesh-colored. Hyphse coarse, fertile tips 

 obtusely rounded, bearing the globose, delicately warted, 5 M spores on 

 minute spicules. On bark, Coos Co., Oregon, W. S. Carpenter, no. 125. 



