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Oct., 1887.] 
NEW FUNGI. 
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SphvEria (Amphispii^eria) Oronoensis, E. & E.—Perithecia scat¬ 
tered, subcarbonaceous, bhick, roughish, subsuperficial, the base only 
slightly sunk in the wood, small (about one sixth millim.), globose or 
slightly depressed-globose; ostiolum papilliform; asci linear, 75 x 5 p 
(spore-bearing part about 50 p long), surrounded with abundant paraphy- 
ses; sporidia uniseriate, oblong elliptic, brown, uniseptate but not con¬ 
stricted, 6—8 x 24—3 /•*, cells equal or the lower one a little narrower. On 
rotten wood. Orono, Maine, November, 18S6. Prof. F. L. Harvey, No. 
57. Apparently near Sphceria sardoci , DeNot. 
Lasiosph^eria subyelutina, E. & E.—On rotten magnolia wood. 
Newfield, June 26, 1887. Perithecia superficial, black, conico-hemi- 
spherical, 150—200 P in diameter, sparingly clothed with spreading, 
straight, sparingly septate, rather obtuse, black hairs, subdiaphan- 
ous above, 100 — 150 x 4—5 P ; asci clavate-cylindrical, about 150 x 
12 without paraphyses; sporidia fusoid, hyaline, biseriate, slightly 
curved, ends rather obtuse, granular, becoming 3—5-septate, 22—30 
x 4—44 p. Closely allied to S. atrobarba, C. & E., but hairs of peri¬ 
thecia longer and of equal diameter throughout and sporidia fusoid and 
hyaline. The surface of the wood itself, in both these species, is thinly 
clothed with hairs similar to those growing on the perithecia. The 
sporidia are much like those of S. atriella, C. & E., but that species has 
larger, subdepressed perithecia without hairs of any kind. 
Leptosph^eria anomala, E. & .E.—On dead herbaceous stems. 
Scofield, Utah, June, 1887. S. J. Harkness. Perithecia gregarious, mem¬ 
branaceous and of rather coarse, cellular structure, about one third 
millim., black, smooth, subspherical, at length slightly collapsing above, 
at first covered by the epidermis, finally erumpent; asci oblong-cylin¬ 
drical, about 100 x 20 P, subsessile, with evanescent, filiform paraphyses ; 
sporidia biseriate, broad, oblong-fusoid, one-septate, insequilateral and 
slightly curved, pale, straw yellow, constricted at the septum, 30—35 x 
10—12 P, ends obtuse. This has all the essential characters of Leptosphce- 
ria except the one-septate sporidia. On the same stems is found the 
following, which is apparently its conidial stage and may indicate a 
relationship with the Hypocreacece. 
Cylindrocolla diffluens, E. & E.—On dead herbaceous stems. 
Scofield, Utah, June, 1887. S. J. Harkness. Sporodochia flesh-colored 
(orange when dry), appressed, marginless, appearing to the naked eye as 
mere orange-colored blotches about one millim. in diameter, at first 
subtuberculose; conidia oblong or cylindrical, varying in length from 4—12 
p and about 14 P wide, hyaline and continuous, concatenate, the chains of 
conidia branching in a tree-like manner and separating entirely quite to 
the base, without any distinct sporophores, as in C. Urtiece , which this 
in other respects much resembles. 
Ophiobolus hamasporus, E. & E.—On fallen leaves of Quercus 
tinctoria [?). Manhattan, Ks., July, 1887. W. T. Swingle. Perithecia 
scattered, globose, membranaceo-carbonaceous, 4—4 millim. in diameter, 
black, buried in the substance of the leaf except the convex-flattened 
