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Anthostomella melanosticta, E. & E — On dead leaves of Sabal 
Palmetto , Louisiana, December, 1886. Langlois, No. 830. Perithecia 
gregarious or scattered, buried in the parenchyma of the leaf with their 
black, dot-like ostiola barely projecting through the epidermis, which is 
not at all blackened or discolored ; asci 80—110 x 12—1-5 ;>■; sporidia sub- 
biseriate, elongated-elliptical and subinequilateral, brown, continuous, 
19—22 x 7—9 a 4 , with a thin, hyaline envelope at first. 
Li ptosplueria Fraxini, E. & E.—On living leaves of Fraxinm 
Americana , Columbia, Mo., August, 1886. 14. T. Galloway, No. 125. 
Spots amphigenous, rusty below, dirty white above, with a rusty brown 
border, small, orbicular (1 millim.) or elongated, 2—3 millim. and narrow; 
perithecia black, epiphyllous, few, small (75 /'-), erumpent, indistinctly 
pierced above and with a rudimentary mycelium around the base ; asci 
clavate-cvlindrical, 55—70 x 8—10 /■*; sporidia biseriate, fusoid, somewhat 
curved, yellowish, nucleate, becoming 3—5-septate (mostly 4-septate), 
constricted at the middle septum when mature and sometimes slightly 
at the others, 20—25 x 34—4 /'-. 
Lophiostoma erosu3I, E. & E.—On decaying wood of Salix, Vine- 
land, N. J. Perithecia buried in the substance of the wood, globose, 
4—f millim. in diam.; ostiola erumpent, narrow, only slightly prominent; 
asci clavate-cylmdrical, 90—100 x 12—15 /*, with abundant filiform para- 
physes; sporidia subbiseriate above, oblong-fusoid or subnavicular, 
about 5-septate, hyaline at first, then yellowish and finally nearly opaque, 
mostly 20—25 x 7—8 /', with a shrivled appearance. The perithecia are 
greedily eaten out by a small beetle. Allied to L. scelestum, C. A E , but 
smaller sporidia. Differs from L macrostomoides , DeNot, in its immersed 
and smaller perithecia and its somewhat smaller sporidia. 
Lophiostoma Langloisii, E. & E —On bark of decaying Salix 
nigra , lying on damp ground, Point a 1 la flache, La., December, 1886. 
Langlois, No. 902. Perithecia gregarious, subconic, three fourths millim. 
in diam., about half buried in the bark, the projecting part dull black, 
roughish, with a narrow, more or less compressed, prominent ostiolum ; 
asci subcylindrical, 110—120 x 12—15 with abundant paraphyses; 
sporidia mostly biseriate, fusoid, 3-septate and slightly constricted at the 
septa, brown, slightly curved, each cell with a large nucleus, 34—40 x 
7—8 P-. 
Lophiostoma (Lophiospleeria) iiahicans, E. & E.—On decorti¬ 
cated, decaying stems of Wins radieans , Newfield, N. J., July, 1878. 
Perithecia scattered, small (one sixth millim.), buried in the wood, except 
the narrow, compressed, erumpent ostiolum ; asci subcylindrical, 90—110 
x 10—12 !>■ (spore-bearing part 75—80 !>■ long), surrounded and overtopped 
by abundant, thread-like paraphyses; sporidia biseriate, fusiform, 
3-septate, hyaline, slightly curved and mostly constricted at the middle 
septum, 15—20 x 4—5 
