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NEW KANSAS FUNGI. 
]VEW KAJVSA8 FUNGI. 
BY J. B. ELLIS AND \V. A. KELLERMAN. 
Mel.:\nconi8 dasycakfa, E. »S: K.—Stroma cortical, scaircely ex¬ 
ceeding 1 millim. in diam., without any black circumscribing line. 
Eeritbecia o—8 in a stroma, buried in the substance of the inner 
bark (.25—i millim.). their stout rough cylindric-conical ostiola ijierc- 
ing the mostly stellate-cleft epidermis in a little fascicle without 
any distinct disk. Asci oblong-cylindrical nearly sessile, 100 —115 
X 18—20 !>■ with imperfectly-developed pai’apliyses. Sporidia biseriate, 
oblong-cylindrical, slightly curved, uniseptate, nearly hyaline, sligiitly 
or not at all constricted at the septum, 25—80 x 8—10 with a 
slightly oblique,^stout, hyaline appendage, 10 — 20 x8 at each end. 
On dead twigs and limbs of Acer (linojcavifiini, Manhattan, Ks., June, 
1885. Kelierman, 754. Htilboi^poya ocata., Eers., occurs on the same twigs. 
This dilfers from 31. Alnl, Tub in its smaller stroma, without any of the 
white substance visible in the disk of that species. The sporidia are 
also larger than stated in Syll. (18—24x 5—7 />■). Specimens distributed 
in Mycotheca Marchica, have spor. only 15—18 x 5—7 y-, and appendages 
0 )dy 0—8 y- long, while specimens from Cooke, though possessing all the 
otheLsCharacteristics of 31. Alni, Tub, have the sporidia 80—88 x 7—8 y- 
without any trace of appendages, whicli may have fallen off or been 
absorbed. In all the specimens of 3£. Alni we have seen, besides 
the presence of the white grumose-corky substance in the stroma^and 
disk, the perithecia raise the epidermis into little protuberances so as to 
indicate their position beneath, but this is not the case with the Kansas 
specimens, besides, the perithecia are perceptibly smaller, and mostly 
less numerous. For these reasons, and on account of the different 
host-plant, we are inclined to regard it as a distinct species, rather than 
as a mere variety of 31. Alni, Tub 
LEFTOsuruERiA PYRENorEZoiDES, tSacc. 6c Speg. — A Apliwria, 
agreeing well with the description of this species in Michelia I, p. 
894, and the lig. in Faiujl Italici 828, was found on dead herbaceous 
stems near Manhattan, Kansas, June, 1885. Kelierman. 788. The 
sporidia, however, remain for some time with only two septa, becoming 
8-septate only when fully mature. The specimen in our copy of My¬ 
cotheca Veneta 1475, labeled L. pyrenopezoideti, 8. A S., is something else, 
having oblong-ellipticab 2-nucleate hyaline sporidia 7 — 8 x 8 a species 
of PhoDiatospova. 
Srirerei>ea eeucorirea, E. a K.- l^eritliecia punctiform, minute 
(70—100 !>■), buried in the substance of the leaf, except their slight¬ 
ly projecting perforated ai)ices. Asci oblong, sessile, or nearly so, 
75—80 X 7—8 p. Earaphyses none. Sporidia biseriate, fusiform, hya- 
