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JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 



[Vol. I, 



1 AsTERiNA ANOMOLA, Cke. & Hark,, Grev. 9, p. 67. 



"Effused black, ve lvety ; perithecia hemispherical or globose 

 depressed ; m.vcelium intricate, brown with erect, rigid, scattered setie : 

 asci clavate ; sporidia biseriate, lanceolate, 1— 5-septate, hyaline, 20—24 x 

 4 IJ-. Perithecia 80/-'- in diameter, setse about twice as long and sometimes 

 found upon the former." Probably a Dimerosporium. 



On living laurel leaves, California. 



2. AsTERiNA CARN^EA, Ellis & Martin. Am. Nat. 17, p. 1284. Ellis 

 X. A. F. '^0. 1290. 



Mycelium thin, brown, hypophyllous, adnate, mostly near the mar- 

 gin of the leaf or in orbicular spots, about 5 mm. in diameter ; perithecia 

 flesh colored, flattened, soft, crowded, 60—100 ij- in diameter; asci 

 obovate, sessile, 8-spored, 30—40x22—35/^-; sporidia subhj^aline, ovate, 

 two-celled, uniseptate, 16—17 x 7—8 /-'-. 



On Persea palustris, Florida. 



3. AsTEKiNA Celastri, Ellis & Kellerman. Journ. of Mycology I, 

 p. 3. 



Perithecia hypophyllous in groups or scattered, convex, orbicular, 

 black, 250 fJ- in diameter ; mycelium of brow^n radiating threads around 

 the base ; asci oblong, ovate, 12 — 15 x 6 — 7 /-'-, filled with granular matter ; 

 immature. The parts of the leaf occupied by the groups of perithecia 

 are a little darker than the surrounding portions. 



On living leaves of Celastnis scandens, Kansas. 



4. AsTERiNA DELiTESCENS, E. & M. Am. Kat. 17, p. 1284. Ellis N. 

 A. F. No. 1291. 



Mycelium thin, black, orbicular, epiphyllous, 2—4 mm. in diameter^ 

 perithecia black, flattened, crowded, 75x100 /^-, structure radiate-cellular; 

 asci oboval or subglobose, 8-spored, 30—35 x 18—24 /-'- ; sporidia subhya- 

 line, oval, uniseptate, 45—18 x 6—7 



On living leaves of Persea palustris, Florida. 



5. ASTERINA Gaultheri^, Curtis. Ellis N. A . F. Ko. 1358. 

 Perithecia brown-black, flattened, slightly elevated in the center, 



hypophyllous, scattered, 170 — 250 !■>■ in diameter, surrounded by a narrow^ 

 border of brown, branching mycelium ; asci ovate, 22—25 x 13—16 !->■ : 

 sporidia hyaline, obovate, uniseptate, the upper cell the larger, 9x3 

 On living leaves of Gnultheria procumbens, Newton, Mass. 



6. ASTERTNA NUDA, Pk. 



Mycelium brown, branching, scanty ; perithecia black, at first sub- 

 globose, afterwards depressed, thickly clustered near the midrib, mostly 

 hypophyllous, 100—150 in diameter, structure cellular ; asci oval, 

 8-spored, 35—40 x 10 fJ- ; sporidia ovate, hyaline, uniseptate, biseriate, 10 

 —12 X 3—4 f^. 



On living leaves of Abies {?) 



1 do not know where Prof. Peck published this species, but the above 

 description is from an authentic specimen gathered by him. 



