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sporklia eight in an ascus, fusiform, hy, 3 . 1 ine or nearly so, slightly curved, 
38—oh X 3—3i tapering from the middle to each end, nucleate, becom¬ 
ing about 8-septate. The specimens were growing on the bark of an old 
swelling caused by Didicena strumosa, Fr. 
143. Dialonectria coccicola, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. II, p. 39. 
On scale lice on bark of living orange trees, Florida. Com. Prof. F. L. 
Scribner. 
Perithecia cmspitose, membranaceous, about one third millim. in 
diam. and one half millim. high, flesh-color, becoming dirty buff when 
mature, obovate, astomous, surface roughish, with a few scattered, 
white, rudimentary hairs, or at length bald ; asci clavate-cylindrical, 
150—190 X 20 !>■, with abundant, rather stout paraphyses ; sporidia eight 
in an ascus, clavate-cylindrical, multinucleate, hyaline, 110—140 x 6—7 
at the upper end, attenuated below. The groups of perithecia are seated 
either on the shells of dead insects or on the bark itself, with a subic- 
ulum more or less distinct, composed of white, decumbent or prostrate 
hairs of the same character as those found on the perithecia themselves. ^ 
The species seems to be quite distinct from any of those described under 
the subgenus Ophionectria, where this belongs. 
144. UiALOTSTECTRiA FiBRiSEDA, Schw. Syii. N. Am., 1542. Among 
the loosened fibres of chestnut bark, Bethlehem, Pa. (Schweinitz). 
Allied to Nectria sanguinea. 
Very minute, scattered, blood-red, pellucid, globose-ovate, papillate, 
adhering in dense clusters to the fibres of (dead) chestnut limbs from 
which the epidermis has peeled off, entirely glabrous, finally collapsing, 
scarcely visible to the naked eye. Of this species, nothing is known to 
us except the description above quoted. 
Cooke, in his synopsis, mentions a Nectria Smilacis, Sz. We find no 
such species in Schw. Synopsis. 
(To be continued.) 
OBITUARY. 
With feelings of deepest regret, we have to announce the death of our 
colleague and friend. Dr. Geo. Martin, who died at his home in West 
Chester, Pa., Oct. 28th, 1886, in the sixtieth year of his age. Since 1878, 
Dr. M. has devoted much time to mycological studies, especially to the 
examination of the parasitic leaf fungi, and only a few days before his 
death had completed a “ Synopsis of the North American Species of 
Septomt,” as a continuation of the series of mycological papers he had 
already contributed. Having been for some years past in constant corre¬ 
spondence with him, we had come to place great reliance on his opinion 
