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about 60x10 micr., with imperfectly developed paraphyses. Sporidia 
crowded biseriate, clavate-oblong or fusoid-oblong, slightly curved, 
yellowish-hyaline, 2—3—nucleate, 14—16 x 3J—4. Differs from 
Botryosphseria minor on the same stems in its solitary perithecia 
and narrow sporidia. 
Thyridaria eutypoides, E. & E.—On bark of decaying Melia. 
Louisiana, July, 1888. Langlois, No. 1377. Perithecia minute 
(110—120 micr. diam.), immersed, scattered quite uniformly 
through the blackened and subcarbonized substance of the bark 
but lying mostly near the surface and here and there collected in 
valsiform groups. Ostiola short cylindrical with a round opening 
at the subtruncate and slightly swollen apex and so numerous as 
to appear under the lens like a fine black pubescence. Asci 
(p. sp.) about 35 x 7 micr. or with the short stipe like base 40— 
45 micr. long, surrounded with abundant filiform paraphyses. 
Sporidia biseriate, oblong or clavate-oblong, 3-septate and slightly 
constricted at the septa, olive-brown, slightly curved, ends sub- 
obtuse, 10—12 x 2|—3. On the same specimens was a Valsa of 
the section Eutypella, agreeing well with the description of Eu- 
typella paradisaicci , Speg. 
Ceratosph/ERIa microdoma, E. & E.—On bark of decaving 
(Sambucus)? St. Martinsville, La., June 1888. Langlois No. 1310. 
Perithecia barely covered by the bark, densely gregarious, minute, 
not over one-sixth mm. in diam., ostiola projecting, cylindrical, 
J mm. long, rough and more or less overrun with a brown 
tomentum (which -however may be only accidental). Asci oblong- 
cylindrical or clav-cylind. 50—55 x 7—8 subsessile with rather* 
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stout filiform paraphyses. Sporidia biseriate or crowded, oblong 
or clavate-oblong 3-septate and slightly constricted at the septa, 
olive-brown 11—12 x 2-J—3. 
Sordaria penicillata, E. & E.—On an old decaying Chinese 
mat. St. Martinsville, La , July 1888. Langlois No. 1449. Per¬ 
ithecia gregarious, ovate, \—J mm. diam., at first entirely buried 
except the protruding ostiolum, at length with upper half emergent, 
ostiolum short-cylindrical or obtusely-conical and surrounded by a 
tuft of straight, erect, closely crowded pale brown continuous 
hairs JJ mm. long. Asci oblong cylindrical about 150 x 20— 
25, 4-spored, with indistinct paraphyses. Sporidia subhyaline and 
clavate-cylindrical at first, then olivaceous with a single large 
nucleus, finally elliptical and opake, 25—30 x 18—20, with a 
cylindrical, nearly straight, hyaline appendage 12—15 x 4—5 at 
the 1 (fiver end and the upper end obtusely pointed or subtruncate. 
