1888.] 
NEW FUNGT 
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Ccelospireria fusariospora, E. & E.—On bark of cottonwood. 
Coll. Dr. G. Egeling, com. Dr. J. W. Eckfeldt. Perithecia erumpent, 
depressed-hemispheric, collapsing to cup shape, black, one-sixth mm. in 
diameter; ostiolum papilliform; asci clavate-cylindrical, 50 x 7paraph- 
yses filiform ; sporidia biseriate, arcuate-fusiform, continuous, 18—22 x 
2i /'-, ends acute. This is one of the species standing ambiguously 
between Lichens and Fungi. 
Sordaria (IIypocopra) Iowana, Ellis & Ilolway.—On horse dung. 
Decorah, la., May, 1880. E. YV. D. Ilolway. Perithecia mostly densely 
gregarious, ovate, 4 mm. in diameter, the base sunk in the matrix (with¬ 
out any stroma), the upper half or three-fourths projecting, black, tuber- 
culose-roughened, of coarse cellular structure and membranaceous; osti¬ 
olum tuberculose-mammose, short-cylindrical or conic-cylindrical, with a 
small round opening ; asci cylindrical, about 100 p long, with abundant, 
rather slender paraphyses; sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, yellowish at 
first, with a single large nucleus, becoming opaque when mature, ends 
rounded or obtusely pointed, but without appendages, quite uniformly 
20 x 8 !>■. Seems nearest to S. scatiyena , E. & I3r., but can not be called 
“hispid;” the surface is rough but there are no hairs. 
S pit je r ell a phlogina, E. & E.—On dead leaves of Phlox lonyifolia , 
BeltMts., Montana, June, 1885. F. \V. Anderson, No. 142. Perithecia 
scattered, erumpent-superficial, conic-hemispheric, about one-sixth mm. 
in diameter, epiphyllous; asci ovate-oblong, 65—75 x 20— 22 m; paraphyses 
none ; sporidia clavate-oblong, 1-septate and slightly constricted at the 
septum, rounded at the ends, yellowish-hyaline, with several small 
nuclei, 20—30 x 7—9 Allied to S. Stellar inear um (Rabh.), but differs in 
its host plant, its more prominent perithecia and its straight, slightly 
constricted sporidia. 
Capnodium puccinioides, E. & E.—On living leaves of Frasera 
speciosdi Pike’s Peak, Colo., August, 1887. Prof. S. M. Tracy. Peri¬ 
thecia amphigenous, cylindrical, obtuse, 75—80 x 20 a, hyaline, becoming 
opaque, erumpent in minute black tufts which are either scattered or co 1- 
lected in groups or patches 1—3 mm. across. In the central portion of these 
groups the leaf becomes dead and a whitish bare spot is formed, the 
margin of which is fringed with black border of perithecia, the whole 
presenting the general appearance of an effused Puccinia. The peri¬ 
thecia on the specimens examined were entirely sterile. 
SpniERi a Cacti, Schw.+-On Opuntia JSngelmanni , Los Angeles, 
California. Com. Prof. F. L. Scribner. Perithecia gregarious, erum¬ 
pent, subastomous, shining black, minute, mostly on round, yellowish- 
brown spots 3—4 mm. in diameter, with a definite, slightly raised bor¬ 
der and often confluent; asci clavate-cylindrical, 40x10 (p. sp.) with a 
short, slender, pedicellate base; paraphyses not seen; sporidia biseriate, 
elliptical or obovate-elliptical, opaque with a light-colored band (pseudo- 
septum) across the middle, the lower end also subhyaline (and slightly 
appendiculate [?]), 12—15 x 4—44 /'-. 
