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NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI FROM VARIOUS LOCALITIES. 
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Amphispha^ria subiculosa, E. & E. —On decorticated poplar. 
Langlois, No. 382. Perithecia superficial, gregarious, depressed-globose 
(i millim.), brown-black, rough, but subshining above when viewed ob¬ 
liquely ; ostiolum radiate-sulcate, not prominent. The lower part of the 
perithecia is clothed with a coat of brown, branching hairs, which also 
cover thinly the surface of the matrix around and between the perithe¬ 
cia, some of which touch each other but are not confluent; asci cylindric- 
clavate, 90—100 x 12—15 with abundant paraphyses ; sporidia biseri- 
ate, oblong, pale brown, 1-septate and slightly constricted at the septum, 
ends obtuse and each cell nucleate, 15—20 x 4—5 /^. 
Melanopsamma cupressinum, E. & E.—On bleached wood of 
cypress pickets and red cedar. Langlois, No. 394 and 320. Perithecia 
emergent, superficial, gregarious, i-i millim. in diam. (on cypress), 
rather more elongated and subhysteriiform on red cedar, rough, carbon- 
aceo-membranaceous, with a broad and rather depressed opening above 
(probably with a prominent ostiolum at first); asci clavate-cylindrical, 
70—75 X 10—12 with filiform paraphyses and 8 biseriate, yellowish- 
hyaline, clavate-oblong, 1-septate, about 12 x 4 p- sporidia. 
Diplodia frumenti, E. & E.—On dead stalks of Zea Mays^ June. 
Langlois, No. 493. Perithecia globose, sometimes with a stout, cylind¬ 
rical ostiolum, subca3spitose or often seriate, bursting out through lon¬ 
gitudinal cracks ; sporules elliptical, brown, 1-septate, 15—18 x 12 p, on 
stout pedicels. Very different from Diplodia Zecc, Lev. 
MYXOSPORIU3I SUBVIRIDE, E. & E.—Oil dead limbs of birch. Plain- 
field, N. J. G. F. Meschutt. Acervuli scattered, subepidermal, raising 
the epidermis into distinct pustules and discharging the oblong, green¬ 
ish-hyaline sporules, 7—13 x 4—5 P (mostly 11—12 x 4—4i p) in a greenish, 
amber-colored mass. 
Pestalozzia PRiMARiA, E. & E.— On dead Scirpus fluviatilis, May.- 
Langlois, No. 443. Acervuli hysteriiform, black, erumpent-superficial, 
about 4 millim. long, scattered ; conidiaoblong-cylindrical, yellow-brown, 
at length 1-septate, with a crest of three short, hyaline, spreading bris¬ 
tles, 6—9 p long and slightly thickened at their tips ; pedicels filiform, 
10—12 p long. The conidia are at first continuous. Very different from 
P. versicolor, Speg., var. Americana, which is also on Schpus. 
Melanconium salicinum, E. & E.—On dead limbs of Salix. nigra. 
Langlois, No. 374. Acervuli scattered, tuberculiform, or often truncate 
above, about 1 millim. across, closely surrounded and margined by the 
raised epidermis ; spores ovate-elliptical, brown, 10—12x6—7 p. Differs 
from M. bicoloT, Nees., in its habitat and absence of the white stroma. 
Stilbum macrocarpon, E. & E.—On rotton wood. April. Lang¬ 
lois, No. 465. Stem white, cylindrical or compressed, loosely floccose- 
fibrillose, ^ millim. high by about 75 P thick ; head subglobose, black, 
100—125 p in diam.; conidia oblong, granular and nucleate, 12—20 x 6—7 
p, subcatenulate on the tips of the fibres which compose the stem, 
involved in mucus, closely compacted into a firm, black head. Except¬ 
ing the black head, scarcely distinguishable, outwardly, from S. parvii- 
him. C. & E. Remarkable for its large, subcatenulate conidia. 
