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(p. sp.) with a slender base. Sporidia crowded in the asci, yellow¬ 
ish in the mass, allantoid, strongly curved, with a nucleus in each 
end, 3—4 x 1 (mostly not over 3± micr. long.) 
Amphisph^eria deformis, Ell. & Lang.—On an old cedar post, 
Pointe a la Hache, La., March ’86. Langlois No. 1459. 
Perithecia gregarious, erumpent, subglobose, or a little com¬ 
pressed, Ji mm. diam. black and roughish, ostiolum irregular, 
lacerate-depressed. Asci clavate-cylindrical, about 50 x 7, rather 
evanescent with obscure paraphyses. Sporidia uniseriate, oblong 
or clavate-oblong, brown, 1-septate and constricted, with each 
cell nucleate. 
Melanopsamma cupressina E. & E .—(J. M. II, p. 103) much 
resembles this but the sporidia are hyaline and incline more to 
ovate. 
Phoma glumarum, Ell. & Tracy,—On living glumes of Oryza 
sativa. Starkville, Miss., Oct. ’88. Tracy No. 122. Perithecia 
erumpent-superficial, black, minute (90—120 micr.), pierced 
above. Sporules elliptical 3—4 x 2—2|; smoky-hyaline. 
Phyllosticta maxima E. & E.—On leaves of Phododendron 
rnaximum, Bedford, Mass., July ’83. Coll. Rev. Thos. Morong, 
com. A. Commons. 
Spots large, reddish-brown with a darker margin, mostly ter¬ 
minal or lateral, (3—5 cm.) Perithecia scattered, epiphyllous 
minute (J mm.), their subacute apices slightly prominent. Sporules 
globose-elliptical, hyaline, granular, 10—12 x 6—8 on rather 
slender pedicels about equal in length to the diameter of the 
sporulc. The fruit is much like that of P. sphmropsoideci, E . & 
E. and the habit that of P. terminalis, E . & M, 
Diplodina Kierberliniae, E. & E.—On Koerberlinia spinosa, 
Arizona, June ’81 Coll. C. G. Pringle, com. A. Commons. 
Perithecia gregarious, subcuticular,, J mm. diam. rupturing the 
epidermis but not erumpent. Sporules elliptical, hyaline 14—IB 
x 7—8, the endochrome imperfectly divided across the middle. 
Vermicularia hibiscina, E. & E.—On dead Hibiscus Man- 
ihot, Pointe a la Hache, La., Jan. ’86. Langlois No. 1458. 
Perithecia erumpent, subseriate, J mm. diam. densely, clothed 
with black bristles 80—-100 x 4. Conidia falcate-fusoid, 
15—20 x 3—4. 
Pestalozzia maura, E. & E.—On leaves of Psychotria 
rufescexs, H. B. K. Halifax River, Fla,, (A. H. Curtis No. 1121). 
A. Commons No. 8 81. Perithecia amphigenous, subprominent, 
black,- minute, on round reddish- brown spots 2-3-mm. diam. 
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