Sept > 1904 ] Some New Fungi from Western New York . 
229 
SOME NEW FUNGI FROM WESTERN NEW YORK. 
CHARLES E. FAIRMAN. 
Sph^eropsis thalictri Ellis & Fairman n. sp.— Perithecia 
scattered, covered (permanently ?) by the epidermis which is 
black and shining over them, minute, mm. Sporules oblong- 
elliptical, 24 X IO/A. 
On dead stems of Thalictrum sp. Yates, Orleans County, 
N. Y., Sept. 1900. 
Botryodiplodia amalanchieris Ellis & Fairman n. sp.— 
Stroma cortical, round or oblong, sometimes confluent. Peri¬ 
thecia small, \ mm. or less. Ostiola erumpent. Sporules ellip¬ 
tical, brown, uniseptate, constricted at the septum, 18 x 10-1 2 /a. 
On dead twigs of Amelanchier, Lydonville, N. Y., 1904. 
Karschia crassa Fairman n. sp.— Cups sparse, sessile, 
black, minute (not over \ mm. in diameter), applanate with a 
thick, upturned, concolorous rim; asci cylindrical or clavate- 
cylindrical, 33 x 13^; paraphyses slender, broader but not sep¬ 
tate at the apex; sporidia irregularly biseriate, brown, uniseptate, 
not constricted at the septum, with an oil drop in each half, 
walls thick, 10 x 7/a. 
On decaying wood in the woods, Lyndonville, N. Y., July, 
1904. 
Differs from K. lignyota in its thicker sporidia and shorter 
asci and from K. patinelloides in not having the paraphyses 
septate-capitate, as well as in being broader and having shorter 
asci. 
Pyrenopeziza cephalanthi Fairman n. sp.— Cups, scat¬ 
tered, small, sessile, black outside, disc white at first, growing 
yellowish then black with age, margin occasionally white; asci 
clavate-cylindrical, 60 x 6-7 /a; sporidia hyaline, cylindrical or 
oblong-fusoid, 10-13 x 2-3/A, and having from two to four nuclei; 
paraphyses filiform. 
On dead limbs of Cephalanthus occidentalis, lying in ditches, 
Ridgeway, N. Y., Aug., 1904. 
Lasiosph^eria ovina (Pers.) Fuckel, var. aureliana 
Fairman n. var. 
Sphaeria ovina, Pers., 1801. Peck, 226. Rep. N. Y. State 
Museum, page 99. Leptosphaeria, N. A. Pyrenomycetes, E. & 
E., p. 150. Leptospora, Feltgen, no. 991. 
Perithecia scattered or gregarious, but not crowded, large, 
ovate-globose, clothed mostly at the base with long brown, bristle 
like, septate hairs which are 6/a in diameter, simple, or branched, 
straight of flexuous at the tips, covered with a persistent grayish 
