NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES OF 
FUNGI^ 
John Dearness 
DISCOMYCETES 
I. Mollisia apiophila sp. nov. 
Apothecia 0.3-1 mm. when fresh, hardly visible to the naked 
eye when dry, flesh-color, subsessile, turbinate, height nearly 
equaling width ; cells of hypothetical layer elongate, septate, 3-4 yu, 
across, of ectal layer round to angular, thin-walled, 10-12 /*. Asci 
with paraphyses making a yellowish-hyaline stratum 75-80 fi, p. sp. 
45~52 X 10-12 yu,. Sporidia biseriate, 2-4 guttulate, hyaline, na- 
viculate, 16-18 X 4-6 fi. 
On preceding season’s stems of Apios tuherosa Moench. Lim- 
ited to these stems and often associated with another thin sessile 
Mollisia having much smaller sporidia and not limited to Apios. 
London, Ont., /. Dearness 3943; observed annually, August and 
September. 
2. Belonidium Macounii sp. nov. 
Apothecia cyathiform to ureceolate, sessile, dark-brown, i mm. 
in diameter, gregarious, sometimes cespitose. Asci hyaline, cylin- 
drical, 90-96 X 7 At, overtopped by the hyaline paraphyses, which 
are enlarged at the tips. Sporidia elongate, hyaline, 3-septate, 
20-30 X 3 /t, iu more than a single series. 
On dead stems of Spiraea Mensiesii Hook'., Vancouver Island, 
May-June, 1915, John Macoiin. 
PYRENOMYCETES 
3. Laestadia biennis sp. nov. 
Perithecia epiphyllous, black, subglobose, perforate at or near 
the summit, 1 80-360 yu,. Asci fusoid, sessile, aparaphysate, 40-50 
X 7-9 yu.. Sporidia sub-biseriate, nucleate near each end or guttu- 
late, continuous, oblong-elliptic, 8-1 1 X 3-4 M- 
1 Examined cotypic material or microscopic mounts of the following 
species will be sent to the Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada, the 
National Herbarium, Washington, D. C., and the New York Botanical Garden. 
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