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Luzon, Province of Bataan, Laniao (3537 Merrill) October, 1903 (Type). On 
prostrate log. 
This species externally resembles NummvJaria htdliardi Tub, which however 
has asci 10 by 100-120 fx. and sporidia 9-10 by 11-14 /x. 
PORONIA Willd. 
Poronia pileiformis (Berk.) Fr. Nov. Act. Reg. Soc. Sci. Ups. 1 (1855) 129. 
Sphaeria pileiformis Berk. Bond. Journ. Bot. 1’ (1842) 155. pi. 7. f. 6. 
Philippines (1980 Cuming) fide Berk. 1. c. 
SPHAERIA Anct. 
Sphaeria micraspis Berk. Bond. Journ. Bot. 1 (1842) 150. pi. 7. f. 9. 
Philippines (2104 Cuming) fide Berk. 1. c. 
This is probably not a fungus but a lichen. Berkeley opp. cit. 457 refers it 
to Verrucaria nitens Fee. 
TREMATOSPHAERIA Fuck. 
Trematosphaeria palaquii Ricker sp. nov. 
Perithecia gregarious or scattei’ed, slightly immersed, siibcarbonaeeous, 
black, ovate-globose, 1-2 mm. diam. ; ostioliim usually obtusely conical, 
soon deciduous, paraphyses filiform, numerous, larger than the asci; 
asci clavate or cylindrical, 14-15 by 132-141 p,; sporidia uniseriate, ovate- 
oblong, 5-spored, at first hyaline then becoming brown, 3-septate, not 
constricted at septum, 8-12 by 17-20 p. 
Luzon, Province of Tarlae (3597 Merrill) November, P103. (Type.) On bark 
of Falaquium latifolium. 
XYLARIA Hill. 
Xylara fulvo-lanata (Berk.) Saec. Syll. Fung. 1 (1882) 340. Sphaeria fulvo- 
lanata Berk. Bond. .Journ. Bot. 1 (1842) 154. 
Philippines (2218 Cuming) fide Berk. 1. c. 
Xylaria hypoxylon (Linn.) Grev. FI. Ediii. (1824) 355. Clavaria hypoxglon 
Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, 2 (1753) 1182. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao (3530 Merrill) October, 1903. On prostrate 
logs. 
Xylaria luzonensis P. Henn. Hedw. 32 (-1893) 225. pi. 8. f. 3. 
Luzon (Warburg) . On Afzelia hijtiga A. Gray, fide Henn. 1. c. 
Xylaria polymorpha (Pers.) Grev. FI. Edin. (1824) 355. Sphaeria polymorpha 
Pers. Comm. Fung. Clav. (1787) 17. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao (3534 Merrill) October, 1903. On dead 
trees. Mindanao, near Davao (Warburg) fide Henn. Hedw. 32: 224. 
BASIDIOMYCET,®. 
USTALIGINALES. 
CINTRACTIA Cornu. 
Cintractia axicola (Berk.) Cornu. Ann. Sci. Nat. VI. 15 (1883) 279. Ustilago 
axicola Berk. Ann. Nat. Hist. 11. 9 (1852) 200. 
Mindanao, Davao (Warburg) fide Henn. in Warburg, Mons. 1: 2. Luzon, 
Manila (Warburg) Henn. 1. c. 
