JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 
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Hyfocrea bicolor, E. & E.—On decaying log of Ulmus fulva, Man¬ 
hattan, Ks., Jan., 1888. Kellerman & Swingle, No. 11G0. Stromata gregari¬ 
ous or crowded, convex, suborbicular, dull cinereous becoming dull black, 
suborbicular, 2—4 mm. in diameter, surface mostly rugulose, centrally 
attached as in II. Schweinitzii,Fr ., which when mature it much resembles; 
perithecia peripheric, globose, about mm. in diameter, buried in the 
stroma, which is of a dull white color within and has the surface mi¬ 
nutely roughened by the punctiform ostiola; asci cylindrical, 70x5 /'; 
sporidia 1-seriate or crowded above, elliptical, continuous, smoky-brown, 
about 5 x 24 /'. 
Sphasrotheca leucotricha, E. & E.—On living twigs, Concordia, 
Mo., December, 1887. Rev. C. H. Demetrio. Mycelium white, thin, sub- 
membranaceous, persistent, composed of imperfectly developed, hyaline, 
branching threads and granular matter and bearing more or less abun¬ 
dantly pale-brown, elliptical. 1-septate conidia 5—8 x 4—5 perithecia 
minute (75—80 /'), immersed in the mycelium ; appendages mostly rudi¬ 
mentary or obsolete but sometimes well developed, 50—100/'- long, brown, 
paler towards the extremities; asci obovate,75—80 x 50—GO /';’ 8-spored; 
sporidia elliptical, subin aequilateral, granular, 22—30 x 12—15 /'. Read¬ 
ily distinguished by its thin, white, persistent, granular mycelium. 
Valsa pallida, E. & E.—On bark of dead Salix , South Butler, N. 
Y., December, 1887. O. F. Cook, Jr. Stromata subhemispherieal and 
suborbicular, composed of the substance of the inner bark, which is 
changed to a dirty flesh color or dirty white, about 2 mm. in diameter 
and surrounded by a thin black wall which shows as a black circumscrib¬ 
ing line on a horizontal section, closely aggregated and occupying extens¬ 
ive areas which are definitely limited, presenting much the same general 
appearance as V. ambiens; perithecia 4—8 in a stroma, rather small, with 
slender necks that barely pierce the dirty white, farinaceous disk with 
their broad, depressed-hemispheric, roughish, black and, when well devel¬ 
oped, distinctly quadrisulcate-cleft ostiola ; asci (p. sp.) 35—45 x G—7 /'; 
sporidia biseriate, quite hyaline, slightly curved, continuous, G—8x 14—2 
/'. The disk containing the ostiola is closely embraced by the cuticle 
which is perforated but not laciniately cleft and is raised into rather 
broad pustules by the underlying stroma. V. verrucula, N its., seems to 
differ in its elongated ostiola and numerous perithecia. 
Fenestella amorpha, E. & E.— On (decorticated [?]) hickory 
limb, Lyndonville, N. Y., March, 1888. Dr. Chas. E. Fairman. Peri¬ 
thecia flask-shaped, about 1 mm. high and £ mm. broad, black outside but 
the internal texture white, connate and subseriate, the short (4 mm.), 
cylindrical ostiola converging but not united in a disk ; asci cylindrical, 
with a narrow base, 150—175 x 12—15 /', with abundant filiform paraphy- 
ses ; sporidia 1-seriate, oblong-elliptical, about 6-septate with a single 
longitudinal septum, dark brown, 20—25 x 10—12 not constricted at the 
