NEW JERSEY FUNGI. 
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On black raspberry canes. 
Sporidia *018 x '004 mm., triseptate ; the peritbecia are gre- 
garious, covered by the blackened cuticle, which is slightly elevated 
but not fissured ; sporidia very similar to those of Spliceria ahbre- 
viata^ C., but habit and asci very different. (PI. 95, fig. 8.) 
No. 2508 h. 
Sphaeria (Diaporthe) spiculosa. Fr. var. Phytolaccae. 
On stems of Phytolacca. 
Sporidia too immature to determine whether really distinct from 
Sph. euspina, and some other very closely allied species, all of 
which are forms of Sphceria spiculosa of Fries. No. 2493. 
Sphaeria rostellata. Ft. 
On Rubus villosus. No. 2509. 
Sphaeria anguillida. C. 
Gregaria, mox nuda ; peritheciis ovatis, atrobrunneis, Isevibus, 
nitidis, papillatis ; ascis cylindraceis ; sporidiis filiformibus, multi- 
septatis, flaveolis. 
On stems of Bidens. 
The perithecia are twice as large as in S. fulgida^ C. & P., the 
sporidia little more than half the length of those in Sphceria 
acuminata ; sporidia *12 mm. long. In a former paper referred to 
S. acuminata. Nos. 2390, 2500. 
This Sphseria belongs to the small group which some mycolo- 
gists recognize as a separate genus under the name of Raphido- 
spora^ on account of the vermiculate sporidia. It may be of advan- 
tage to enumerate here the American species which have come 
under our notice. 
1. — S. acuminata^ Sow., which is evidently S. carduorum, Wallr.. 
occurs on the stems of thistles, and has often been said to occur in 
the United States, although, up to the present, we do not remember 
to have seen the true form ; the asci are at least '2 mm. long. The 
specimens issued by Dr. Curtis, at least some of them, do not 
belong to this. S. vibriospora, B. & C., is subsequently referred 
by Berkeley to this species, but our specimens are certainly S. 
rubella. 
2. — S. anguillida, C., has much more conical perithecia, and 
shorter asci, not exceeding '15 mm. long. To this belongs the 
specimens on Bidens, which were previously referred by us to S. 
acuminuta, and also specimens issued by Ravenal as Sphceria coni- 
formis (No. 1946), and by Dr. Curtis under the same name. Does 
S. coniprmis, Fr., really occur in the United States ? It must be 
remarked that the asci in both Ravenal’s and Curtis’s specimens 
are rather shorter than in the form on Bidens. 
3. — The next species is Sph. fulgida, C. & P., with smaller, 
prominent, shining, black, but scarcely conical perithecia, and asci 
about *1 mm. long. Sporidia are consequently not more than half 
as long as in S. carduorum. At present we have only seen this 
species from New York. 
