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JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 
Vol. IV. MANHATTAN, KANSAS, OCTOBER 1S88. No. 10. 
NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI FROM VARIOUS LOCALITIES. 
BY J. B. ELLIS AND BENJA. M. EVERHART. 
(Continued from page 81.) 
Parodiella fruticola, E. k E.—On dead stems of Clematis 
ligusticifolia. Sand Coulee, Montana, Feb. 1888. F. W. An¬ 
derson No. 134. Perithecia obovate, astomous (at first), about 
1 mm. diam., black, flattened above and finally umbilicate-col- 
lapsed and irregularly or sublaciniately ruptured above, seriately 
erumpent through cracks in the bark, often densely crowded but 
not confluent. Asci snbcylindrical, 100—150 x 15—20, para¬ 
phrases cylindrical, often branching below, faintly septate, 
evanescent. Sporidia 1-seriate or occasionally more or less 
perfectly biseriate, broad-fusoid-oblong, subinequilateral, 1-sep¬ 
tate, straw-yellow, 30—35 x 8—15. The perithecia are often 
subangular from mutual pressure and are at first filled with a 
whitish grumous mass but finally become empty. The less 
crowded forms resemble outwardly Lophiostoma Montaniense, 
E , kE ., from which it is easily distinguished by its astomous 
perithecia and different sporidia. Dothidea insculpta, Wallr. 
according to specimens and description is different. 
Sph^erella Opuntle, E. k E. — On dead leaves of Opuntia. 
Louisiana, Langlois, 1261. Perithecia gregarious 100—112 micr. 
diam. in patches 2—10 mm. across. Ostiola erumpent, globose, 
imperfectly quadrisulcate-cleft. Asci oblong-cylindrical 60 x 8—9 
sessile, . without paraphyses. Sporidia biseriate, clavate- 
fusoid, 1—septate slightly bent at the septum, nucleate, yellowish, 
20—22 x 3 J. Remarkable for its peculiar ostiola. 
Sph^erella Spartinae, E. & E.—On dead leaves and sheathes 
of Spartina cynosurioides, near Lincoln, Nebraska, Oct. 1888. 
H. J. Webber, No. 56. Perithecia of coarse cellular structure, 
subastomous, elliptical, 100—112 x 170—190, buried in the par- 
