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ing square off when dry), apices rounded and 4-5 sulcate, altogether 
resembling a mass of black strigose coarse hair covering the matrix 
with a nearly continuous coat. Asci clavate, truncate above, 15 x 
3J(p. sp.), with a slender base also about 15 long without paraphy- 
ses. Sporidia 8, crowded, yellowish in the mass, strongly curved, 
with a nucleus in each end, about 3| x J. In its smaller sporidia 
and very long ostiola this appears distinct from Eutypella Bon- 
ciriensis , Speg. and from Valsa scoparia, Schw. Var. subsimplex 
has the perithecia larger (J-f mm.) more deeply buried in the 
wood and only 1-2 in a stroma which is rounded and protuber¬ 
ant like the perithecia of some large suberumpent simple Sphasria. 
Both the var. and the species are found also on the bare wood. 
Diatrype acervata, E. & E.—On dead spots in living leaves of 
Yucca t filcimentosa, Newfield, N. J., July—Aug., 1888. Stromata 
small (J mm.), tobacco brown becoming black, soft, either single 
or oftener in compact groups, erumpent in the center of ellip¬ 
tical (|—4 cm. long) dirty white dead spots with a definite 
dark, red-brown border. Perithecia subcircinately arranged, 5—10 
in a stroma, white inside, 75—100 diam. subglobose with a short 
subcylindrical ostiolum which is hardly discernable on the surface 
of the stroma. Asci oblong 35—40 x 7—8 without any distinct 
paraphyses. Sporidia biscriate, oblong-cylindrical, slightly curved, 
hyaline, obtuse, slightly constricted in the middle and uniseptate, 
12—18 x 3 exactly resembling the sporidia of a Sphaerella. The 
clusters of stromata resemble the sori of a Puccinia . 
Lophiostoma (Lophionema) implexum.— On dead adventitious 
roots of Sorghum Flalapense and on lower part of sheathing leaves 
of (Andropogon) ? Pointe a la Hache, La, June, 1886. Lang- 
lois 1439. Perithecia gregarious, brown strigose, ovate, about J 
mm. diam., subcuticular, the obtuse-conic, slightly compressed osti¬ 
olum and upper part of the perithecia erumpent. Asci 150—160 
x 8—10 clavate-cylindrical, with abundant filiform paraphyses. 
Sporidia filiform, closely braided or twisted together and about as 
long as the asci. Well characterized by its perithecia clothed with 
brown strigose hairs and its braided sporidia. 
Lophiostoma minima, E. & E.—On decaying wood, St. Martins¬ 
ville, La. Rev. A. B. Langlois 1388. Perithecia scattered, small 
(200—250), ovate-globose, partly sunk in the wood, ostiola only 
slightly compressed, soon deciduous. Asci clavate-cylindrical, 75 
x 8—9 with abundant paraphyses. Sporidia uniseriate, oblong- 
elliptical, 10—12 x 4—5, subhyaline at first and nucleate, then 
olivaceous and 3-septate, ends rounded, obtuse. 
