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splieric. tuberculose, and roughly laciuiate-cleft above, seated on and 

 partly connected by a thin, crustose, black sublculum more or less dis- 

 tinct. Asci clavate-cylindrical, 65—80 x 10 /^-. Paraphyses filiform (?) soon 

 resolved with a mass of granular matter. Sporidia biseriate. fusiform. 

 20—35 X 4—5 ,". yellowish or hyaline with a faint, gelatinous envelope^ 

 eudochrome divided in the middle, exceptionally 3-times divided. The 

 perithecia collapse when dry so as to resemiile a Peziza with an obtuse 

 margin. Ostioium not very conspicuous, papillose-conic, with 4—5 more 

 or less distinct furrows radiating from it. Allied to Winteria ordinata^ 

 Fr., but differs in its shorter, mostly 1-sepiate sporidia, and depressed 

 perithecia. 



Phtsalospora Oroxtii. E. & E.— On dead spots in living leaves of 

 Orontium aquaticum, JSTewfield. X. J.. July, ISSo. Spots elongated, dead 

 and dry, 3 — i x 1 cm. Perithecia erumpent. orbicular, flattened, loO— 

 ISO in diameter, pierced in the center with a small, round opening, 

 texture membranaceous. Asci oblong-cylindrical, with an acute, sessile 

 base and rather abruptly narrowed, truncate apex. Paraphyses ? Spor- 

 idia biseriate and closely packed, granular, subhj-aline, 14— 16 x 0— 7 

 Ro.mularia Orontii. E. & M,, and PhiiUosticia Orontii, E. & M , are not 

 improbably connected with this as coni^lia and spermogonia. 



Ophiobolus Medcsa, E. E.— Perithecia membranaceous, scat- 

 tered, depressed-globose, i— i mm. in diameier. covered by the epidermis 

 uhich is not discolored uor elevated but barely pierced by the black, 

 punctiform ostioium. Asci very long (400 and over 'by 12—15 broad) 

 containing 8 filiform, curved sporidia nearly as long as the asci and 3 — 3i 

 :J' thick in the middle, gradually tapering to each end, yellowish or nearly 

 hyaline, with endochrome multipartite. The perithecia lie in the fur- 

 rowed cavities of the culm, attached above to the inner surface of the 

 cuticle and covered with loose, spreading, weak, brown, septate hairs, 

 200—400 ," long by about 3 " thick. On stems of Sjj«?-?nio, lying partly 

 buried in the sand on tlie beach at Cape May. X. J. Collected by Mrs. 

 Claroline Treat, during tlie summer of 1885. 



Ophk bolus staphylixus. E. & E.— On decorticated stems of Sta- 

 phyJea trifoJia. West Chester. Pa.. Sept. 1885 (Everhart.) Perithecia 

 small, covered liy tlie fibers of th?^ wood through which project the short, 

 straight, roughish. black, rostellate ostiola. Asci linear, 120— 160 x 4 

 accompanied by filiform paraphyses. Sporidia 8 in an ascus. filiform, 

 yellowish, nucleolate and about as long as the asci. 



On the same stems is a Spharopsis with oblong, depressed perithecia, 

 and spores 18 — 20x8 — 9 and other small peritiiCcia partly covered by 

 the fibres of the wood and containing numerous elliptical, subfuscous. 3 

 X 2 ' spores. 



Leptosph_erl^ rubrotixcta. E. & E.— On dead twigs of Staphylea 

 trifoJla. Perithecia scattered, membranaceous, depressed globose. 200— 

 250 ". perforated above, coh ered by the slightly eievated epidermis wdiich 

 is slightlv ruptured, and stained pale blood red. Asci clavate-cylindrical, 



