JOURNAL, OF MYCOLOGY. 
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Corticium pezizoideum E. & E.—On decaying bean vines, New- 
field, N. J., and on decaying Arundinaria, St. Martinsville, La., 
May, 1888. Langlois, 1207. Milk white, thin, orbicular, \—1 mm. 
across, sometimes subconfluent, margin raised and fringed with 
short crisped hairs. Basidia clavate 12—15 x 7, their tips round¬ 
ed and subglobose. Spores globose, 3 micr. diam. 
Clavaria spilerospora, E. & E.—On the ground in a garden, 
St. Martinsville, La., July, 1888. Langlois, 1435. Slender, 8— 
10 cm. high, cinereous or pale mouse-color loosely branched, ulti¬ 
mate divisions subulate. Spores, (white) ? globose, 5—7 diam. 
The whole plant is quite slender, the common stem below being on¬ 
ly about 1—2 mm. thick, and the few upright, subundulate branch¬ 
es of about the same thickness throughout. 
Hypomyces pannosus, Schw. J. M. II, p. 76.—What we think 
must be this species has been sent from Louisiana by Rev. A. B. 
Langlois, (No. 1340), on rotten wood. The subiculum is of a dull 
yellowish-white and looks like some RhinotricJium or Zygodes- 
mus or some abortive Corticium. Perithecia, waxy, yellowish, im¬ 
mersed in the subiculum. Ascicylindrical 100-110x6—7. Spori- 
dia 1-seriate, fusoid, 1-septate and slightly constricted, at length 
roughish. hyaline, apiculate 25-27 long, (including the appendages), 
5-6 wide; without the appendages about 20 long. H. xylophilus 
Pk. has shorter sporidia and a more compact subiculum with more 
numerous perithecia. On a re-examination of the specimen of this 
latter species from Prof. Morgan, we find the sporidia uniseptate. 
Valsa deusta, E. & E.—On decaying limbs of Carya. St. Mar¬ 
tinsville, La., June, 1888. Langlois, No. 1334. Perithecia 4— 6, 
sunk in the surface of the wood, with thick membranaceous walls, 
shining-black inside (when dry), raising the bark into distinct pus¬ 
tules. Ostiola erumpent in a compact fascicle, short-cylindrical 
(Jmm), obtuse, quadrisulcate. Asci (p. sp.) clavate, about 15x4. 
sporidia crowded, 8 in an asciis, allantoid, strongly curved, minute 
(3J-4 x J-J). The cuticle is soon thrown off leaving the exposed 
surface of the inner bark uniformly blackened. 
Valsa (Eutypella) capillata, E. & E.—On decaying limbs, 
lying on the ground. St. Martinsville, La., May, 1888. Langlois 
No. 1254 Stromata, pustuliform, 2-3 mm. diam. numerous and close¬ 
ly contiguous for 5-20 cm. blackening and carbonizing the bark 
and bounded by a black line which penetrates the wood but not 
deeply. Perithecia membranaceous, thick-walled, black and shin¬ 
ing within (when dry), 6-12 in a group, not distinctly .circinating, 
J—J mm. diam. their bases slightly sunk in the wood. Ostiola cap¬ 
illary very long (J-l) cm. crooked, rough, brittle, (readily break- 
