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sessile. 100 —1 10 x 10— lo /'-, sessile ami accompanied by paraphyses. Spor- 

 idia bis?r.;i:e. cylindrical, s,raii>iit or slightly curved, deep straw yellow. 

 8 — iO-seplaie with one joint ^a little below the middle) slightly swollen. 



to X 4 — 3 ends siibobtuse. Distinguished by its sporidia fiom all 

 the oLher red-tinged species. 



IlENDiiKSONJA Staphyle.e, E. & E. — With the preceding, in perithe- 

 cia scarcely to be distinguished from the ascigerous ones, unless a little 

 larger, spores oblor.g obtuse, st raight or slightly curved, 3-septate and 

 dark brown, Proijably the pycnidial stage of tlie Sphceria. 



Sph^euella OiiONTiT, E. & E.— On yellowish spots on living leaves 

 of Orontium aquaticutn, Xewfield, X. J., July, 1885. Eerithecia epiphyl- 

 lous, scattered, minute (100 ^'■). purplish black, membranaceous, coarsely 

 cellular, perforated above, partly erumpent. Asci oblong, a little nar- 

 rower above and abruptly contracted below into a very short, stipe-like 

 base, 35— 10 X 10— 12 /^-, without paraphyses. Sporidia bisenate, oblong, 

 hyaline, nucleate and faintly 1-septate, about 14 x 4—5 a little narrower 

 at one end. PhysalGspora Orontii has larger perithecia and rather larger, 

 regularly eliiptical, continuous sporidia. 



Sph^erella OEnothek.e, E. & E.— On old capsules of Oenothera 

 6ic?i.»is, Xewtield. X. J., July, 1885. Perithecia erumpent, hemispheric. 

 90 — 100 .'J-, broadly perforated above, densely gregarious and mostly in 

 broad strips or series on the valves of the capsules. Asci oblong, slightly 

 narrower above aud abruptly contracted below into a short, stipe-like 

 base. Sporidia biseriate, variable from oblong or ovate-oblong, 10—15 x 

 3 /-'- and nucleate to oblong fusiform, slightly curved, faintly uniseptate 

 and 15—20 x 3—31 The smaller ones are apparently immature, being 

 without septa. 



AiEOGRAPHLTM c^spiT0SU"3i, E. & E.— On bare wood of old cypress 

 pickets, Louisiana. A. B. Langlais, 196a ; com. Prof. F. L. Scribner. 

 Growing in siuall (1 mm.) suborbicular clusters, on a subcrustose, slightly 

 prominent, black stroma, presenting the general appearance of an erum- 

 pent Sphseria. Perithecia minute (i mm. or less in length), applanate, 

 opening with a rather broad clert, the base mostly bordered with brown, 

 creeping threads. Asci ovate, sessilt^, 30 x 15 ; sporidia crowded, 

 oblong-fusiform, obtuse, liyaline and uniseptate at first, becoming brown 

 at length and often 3-septate, 15—20 x 3—5 /^ constricted at the septum. 

 Differs from the usual type of Ailographum in the sporidia becoming 

 brown. 



Peziza cyphelloides, E. & E. -Parasitic on the teeth of old Hyd- 

 num imemhramiceum ?) Xewfield. X. J., Oct., 1885. Subsessile, minute, 

 (i— i mm.) when fresh, soft, white, pubescent, margin incurved, texture 

 -fine, cellular. Asci cylindrical, branched below, spore bearing part 12— 

 15 x li or including the branching, stipitate base, 24—30 ,"- long. Spores 

 globose, 8 in an a sens, about 1 m in diameter. Paraphyses none. The 

 specimens were accompanied by Pe-iricilU)rm f/Zroyr-j/ni, Lk.. the spores of 



