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nearly plane below or convex behind and subconcave towards the mar¬ 
gin, 6-12 centimeters wide and 6-8 centimeters long5 margin subob- 
tuse and clothed with a rich dark rhubarb-yellow thin tomentum, at 
length subglabrolls. Pileus with 3-4 broad (2 centimeters) convex zones, 
the anterior margin of each zone disappearing beneath the posterior 
margin of the one before it, forming a concentric furrow between each 
two contiguous zones; surface crustaceous but not polished, becoming 
brownish black. Pores rhubarb-yellow with a changeable luster, equal, 
round, 110-120 jjl in diameter, about 1 centimeter long, substratose, 
armed with abundant stout spines, 15-25 by 6-10 //, mostly swollen 
at the base. Spores ferruginous, globose 3-34 //, or ovate-globose 3J-4J 
by 3-3J //. Substance of the pileus (above the pores) corky leathery, 
rhubarb-yellow, repeatedly zoned, 2-3 centimeters thick, holding its 
thickness well towards the margin. The pores are not decurrent but 
are limited behind by a narrow definite margin; closely attached to 
the bark of the tree. What appears to be the same was found some 
years ago at Potsdam, N. Y., on beech. This differs from Fomes rimosus , 
Berk, in its pileus not rimose, in its rather smaller spores and spiny 
hymenium. In M. igniarius the spines are less abundant and shorter 
and spores hyaline. 
NEW SPECIES OF KANSAS FUNGI. 
By J. B. Ellis and W. A. Ivellerman. 
Phyllosticta viridis, 01 . s. On leaves of Fraxinus viridis , Rooks 
County, Kansas, September, 1888; (E. Bartholomew, 185). On large 
subindefinite (J-l centimeter) spots visible on both sides of the leaf 
with a paler shaded margin. Perithecia hypophyllous, numerous, sub- 
erumpent, small, 65-80//, of rather coarse cellular structure; sporules 
abundant, oblong, minute (2 by J//). The spots much resemble those of 
P.fraxini , E. & M., but that has sporules 5-7 by 2i-3/z and much larger 
epiphyllous perithecia. 
Cytispora albiceps, 7i. s. On bark of Juglans nigra , Manhattan, 
Kans., March, 1889 (Kellerman & Swingle, 1393). Tubercles semi- 
emergent, gregarious, | to f millimeter, depressed-conic, opening by a 
single pore at the obtuse apex, which is covered with white granular 
matter, 5-6-celled, the cells at. first filled with white granular matter 
and not readily distinguished. Sporules allantoid 4-7£ by 1J-2//. Ba- 
sidia? Much resembles C. leucophthalma , B. &. C., but the specimens 
of that species in Rav. F. Ann, 698, have the tubercles less prominent 
and smaller and the sporules smaller (3-4 by 1//). This also differs from 
C. persicw , Sz., and G. leucostoma , Sacc. 
Ascociiyta sisymbrii, n. s. On S. canescens , Manhattan, Kans. 
(Kellerman & Swingle, 1221). Spots none; Perithecia scattered on 
