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JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 
[VOL. Ill, NO. 10, 
Acrospermum Ravenelij, B. & C.—Having recently received from 
Mr. B. T. Galloway good specimens of this species on dead leaves of 
Cercis Canadensis , collected in Boone county, Mo., June, 1887, we can add 
to the brief description on p. 5 of the current volume the following notes 
and measurements: 
Ferithecia clavate-cylindrical, cinereous black, of fibrous text¬ 
ure, contracted a little above the base and rather obtuse at the apex, 
300—350 f J - high and 70—80 !■>■ thick; asci about 200 x 3 containing eight 
filiform, continuous, yellowish hyaline sporidia nearly as long as the asci. 
Quite different from A. foliicolum , B. & C., which has longer, liver-col¬ 
ored or chestnut-colored perithecia. 
Nectiiia rubefaciens, E. & E., n. s.—Parasitic on thallus of some 
lichen on various dead limbs lying on the ground. Newfield, N. J. Peri¬ 
thecia globose, 80 /j- in diameter, smooth, or roughened with scattered, 
rudimentary, glandular-like hairs, subastomous, of fine cellular texture, 
pallid at first, becoming orange-red ; asci broad clavate, 35—40 x 10—12 
without paraphyses; sporidia irregularly crowded, oblong-cylindrical, 
hyaline, uniseptate and constricted at the septum, distinctly curved, 
14—18x24—3 l>-. The thallus of the lichen (Parmelia tihacea [?] ) turns 
dull red (bright red inside). The perithecia are scattered and superficial. 
This species has been observed now for the past eight years and seems to 
be quite distinct from any of*tlie other lichenicolous species. 
NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI FROM VARIOUS 
LOCALITIES. 
BY J. B. ELLIS AND B. M. EVERHART. 
Diatrypella pustulata, E. & E.—On dead twig of Lonicera (Cult.) 
Newfield, N. J., May, 1887. Stromata tuberculiforra-pustulate, grega¬ 
rious, white inside, sometimes confluent, but mostly standing singly, 
closely covered by the blackened epidermis, which is not ruptured but 
merely pierced by the short, stout, cylindrical ostiola, which are mostly 
about four-stellate cleft at the tips; perithecia few in a stroma (1—4), 
quite often only one, globose, 4—I millim. in diameter; asci rounded 
above, contracted below into a slender base; sporidia allantoid, yellowish- 
hyaline, 5—8 x 14 /L The part of the branch occupied by the fungus is 
deeply penetrated by a black, circumscribing line. This is certainly 
closely allied to D. Tocciceana , DeNot., which also has the stroma closely 
covered by the epidermis and which this also resembles in other respects, 
but differs from that species and its allies in its prominent ostiola, which, 
when fully developed, are one fifth to one third millim. high. The bases 
of the perithecia penetrate the wood, but when the bark becomes loosened 
they remain attached to it and fall away with it, leaving the surface of 
the wood pitted with cup-shaped cavities. 
