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JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 
(.You TIT, No. 4, 
Valsa magnispora, E. & E.—On dead maple limbs, Plainfield, N. 
J. G. F. Meschutt, July, 1886. Perithecia buried in the inner bark, 
not penetrating to the wood nor circumscribed by any black line, 6—10 
in a cluster, globose-ovate, about one fourth millim. in diarn., contracted 
above into short necks which burst in a cluster through the epidermis 
but project only slightly above it, their apices (ostiola) hemispherical, 
black, smooth and shining, with a minute central pore and sometimes 
lightly umbilicate; asci subsessile, oblong-cylindrical, 100—120 x 18—22 
/>-; sporidia biseriate, oblong-fusoid, hyaline, 1-septate, slightly curved, 
25—35 x 9—11 !>-. We have not seen a specimen of Diaporthe Aceris , Fckl., 
but that is said to have asci only 60 x 8 !>■ and sporidia 14x4 /'- and can 
hardly be the same as this. 
Melanconis Decoraensis, Ell., var. major. —On dead birch limbs, 
l J lainfield, N. J. (G. F. Meschutt). Has the sporidia longer (18—26 x 
8—10 !>■) and mostly biseriate, but does not differ otherwise from the 
original specimens from Iowa. When well matured, the ostiola in both 
are distinctly quadrisulcate. 
Diatrypella iierbacea, E. & E.—On dead herbaceous stems 
{Ambrosia trifidaf) September, 1886. Langlois, No. 505. Stroma tuber- 
culiform, 1—2 millim. in diam., white inside, tinged with yellow above 
but black externally ; perithecia ovate-globose, about one third millim. 
in diam., rather abruptly contracted above into a short, narrow neck, 
♦ expanded at the surface of the stroma with a broad, obtuse, quadrisul¬ 
cate ostiolum; asci, including the slender base, 100—120 x 10—12 p; 
paraphyses soon disappearing ; sporidia crowded in the upper half of the 
asci, numerous pale yellowish, cylindrical, curved, 7—8 x 1—14 /'-. On 
the same stems was a form of Calosphceria microtlieca , C. & E., with 
scattered or subseriate beaked perithecia, having fasciculate asci about 
20 x 34—4 /■*, truncate above and sporidia 34—44 x f !>-. 
Diatrypella ramularis, E. & E.— On dead branches of Lonicera 
Japonica , Pointe a’ la Hache, La., December, 1886. Langlois, No. 861. 
Stroma tuberculiform. 1—2 millim. in diam., bursting out through longi¬ 
tudinal cracks in the bark, penetrating to the wood, which is marked 
with a black, circumscribing line, subtruncate above, dirty white within ; 
perithecia 4—12 in each stroma, globose, with a short neck, walls thick 
and coriaceous; ostiola only slightly prominent, flat, 4—5-stellate-cleft, 
finally broadly perforated; asci broad, clavate, 90—110 x 12—15 p ; 
sporidia many, allantoid, yellowish, moderately curved, 6—10 x 14 p. 
Diatrype SPH.EROSPORA, E. & E.—On dead shoots of Magnolia 
glauc a, Newfield, N. J., June, 1878. Stroma formed of the scarcely 
altered substance of the bark, erumpent but not very prominent, sur¬ 
rounded by the ruptured epidermis, small (4—i millim.); perithecia in a 
single layer, 3—12, black, membranaceous, minute (one sixth to one 
fifth millim.), their smooth, black, obtusely conic ostiola dotting the 
surface of the stroma; asci cylindrical, spore-bearing part 30—35 x 3 !>-. 
with a slender thread-like base about 20 !•■ long ; paraphyses not observed; 
