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H. COCCINEUM Bull. On Aralia spinosa, alt. 1,300 ft., Aug. 18, 1893 (Nuttall, "73. 40). H. Nuttallii E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 346 (1894). Type habitat: On bark of dead Magnolia Fraseri at Glade Creek, May, 1894 (Nuttall, discov. 1494, 477). Stromata gregarious, subconfluent, depressed-hemispher ical or strongly convex, 3 to 6 mm. diameter, purplishblack, mammillose. Perithecia small (about .25 mm.) scat tered irregularly through the stroma, which is rather soft and brownish within. Ostiola crowning the mammillose projections on the surface of the stroma, papilliform, soon deciduous, leaving a round perforation. The asci in the spec, examined had disappeared. Sporidia brown, oblongelliptical, sub-inequilateral, 7 to 8 x 3 to 4 ц (exceptionally 9 x 5 /1)' H. Howeianum Peck. On decorticated Magnolia Fraseri, alt. 1,800 ft., Sept. 12, 1893 (Nuttall, 1203, 158). H. FUSCUM (Pers.) Fr. On dead and decorticated Acer saccharum, Grant Co., near Bayard (Millspaugh). On dead Alnus rugosa, Oct. 31, 1893. Spores 12 x 6 to 7 ¡i (Nuttall, 1221). H. MULTIFORME Fr. On dead Betula sp., alt. 1,800 ft., Short Creek, Aug. 11, 1893 (Nuttall, 1 147). H. perforatUM (Schw.) Fr. On dead twig, Feb. 3, 1894. On Ilex opaca, Dec. 28, 1894 (Nuttall, 1 35 1 ). Spores 10 x5 /1. On Magnolia Fra seri, Nov., 1895. H. RUBiGiNosuM (Pers.) Fr. On dead hard wood of Robinia Pscudacacia, Feb. 25, 1893 (Nuttall, 949, 39). H. Sassafras (Schw.) Berk. On Sassafras Sassafras, March 21, 1893. Spores 8 to 12 x 3 to 4 ц (Nuttall, 917). H. STIGMateuM Cooke. On living Quercus sp., originating under the outer bark which it pushes off, or at times remains attached at one edge and stands away like a lid. Asci, total length, 150 x 10 ц, fertile portion 120 x 10 /1, spores black, elliptical, 16 to 20 x 6 to 10 ц. Feb. 2, 1894 (Nuttall, 1350). H. coLLicuLosuM (Schw.) Nits. On Rhododendron maximum, alt. 1,800 ft., Short Creek, Dec. 16. 1893 (Nuttall, 1330, 289).