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enchyma of the leaf and plainly visible above or on the outside 
and faintly so inside, quite evenly and thickly scattered. Asci 
mostly immature in the specc. examined but evidently present. 
Free sporidia (which we believe to be ascospores) oblong-elliptical, 
yellowish, constricted and faintly 1-septate in the middle, with 
about 4 small nuclei, 12—16 x 4J—5J. This can not be‘the 
Ascochyta Spartince , Trelease, J. M. 1, p. 14, on account of the 
absence of any spots and the quite different spores. We are also 
confident that the Nebraska specc. are ascigerous. 
SPHiERELLA asterinoides, E, & E. —On dead stem of Dipsacus , 
Clyde, N. Y,, April ’88, 0. F. Cook, Jr., No. 539. Perithecia 
scattered, lenticular, rather broadly pierced above, prominent, 
but covered with the cuticle, their bases sunk in the matrix, and 
more or less distinctly fringed with brown branching mycelium. 
Asci without paraphyses, clavate-cylindrical, with a short narrow 
base, 80—90 x 18—20. Sporidia crowded, acutely elliptical, 1 — 
septate and constricted, upper cell mostly broader, smoky-hyaline 
22—28 x 8—12. 
SPHiERELLA Sesbani^e, E. & E.—On dead stems of Sesbania 
macrocarpa , Louisiana, June ’88, Langlois No, 1403. Densely 
gregarious, erumpent, perithecia 80—100 micr. diam. pierced 
above. Asci 35—40 x 7—8, paraphyses none. Sporidia biseriate, 
oblong-cylindrical, 1-septate. but not constricted nor curved, 
10— 12 x 3J—4, ends obtuse. Preceded by a Macrosporium with 
short crooked septate liyphse and oblong 2— 3-septatate, muriform 
conidia, which are soon opake. In general appearance resembles 
S. granulata , E . & E ., but has much smaller sporidia. 
Sphaerella applanata E. & E.—On dead stems of Clematis 
ligusticifolia, Sand Coulee, Montana, Feb. ’88, Anderson 134 (in 
part). Scattered, punctiform, flattened, covered by the thin epi¬ 
dermis through which the perithecia are plainly visible. Asci 
oblong 40—50 x 15. Sporidia biseriate oblong-elliptical or pyri¬ 
form, 1-septate, hyaline. 18 — 20 x 6—8. On the same stems was 
another Sphaerella, with sporidia continuous (Lsestadia) and peri¬ 
thecia not flattened but the material was insufficient for a satisfac¬ 
tory description, 
PEzrzA (Sarcoscypha) Rhizomorpha, E. & E.—Growing from 
a Rhizomorpha (R. subterranea Pers.?) on the ground among moss 
in woods, St. Martins Co., La., Apr. ’88, Langlois, No. 1193, 
Turbinate, with a thick stipelike base, carnose, deeply sulcate 
outside and covered with a thin coat of tomentum, slaty-black 
throughout, 4—6 mm. diam., margin strongly incurved, substrigose- 
toincntose at base. Asci cylindrical, about 200 x 10 micr., with 
