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Rh WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Perithecia gregarious, minute (.16 mm.), clothed (except the black apex) with a thin white tomentum, seated on a thin snow-white, tomentose-arachnoid subiculum. Asci cyl indrical, 40 X 3 ц, without paraphyses, 8-spored. Sporidia uniseriate, oblong, obtuse, hyaline, 5 to 6 x 2 ц, with a single nucleus in the centre (becoming uniseptate) ? This is closely allied to H. subcarnca E. & E., but differs in the color of the subiculum, the black apex of the peri thecia, the narrower asci, and rather longer sporidia. Pos sibly Nectria Rexiana Ellis. PODOSTROMA Karst. P. ALUTACEUM (Pers.) Atk. On decaying organic matter on the ground. North Am. Flora, 3 :з6.

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HYPOCREOPSIS Karst. H. lichenoides (Tode) Seaver. (H. riccioidea Karst.). On Kalmia latifolia, alt. 2,000 ft., Aug. 24, 1893. Spores apparently moniliform (Nuttall, 1178). GIBBERELLA Sacc. G. PULicaRis (Fries) Sacc. . (G. Saubinetii Sacc.). On Asparagus officinalis, Nov. 1, 1893 (Nuttall, 1243, 190). SCOLEONECTRIA Seaver. S. scoleospERMA (Bref.) Seaver. On Pinus Strohns, Monongalia: at Morgantown (Shel don). BROOMELLA Sacc. B. Ravenelii (Berk.) Sacc. On Acer rubrum, April 4, 1894 (Nuttall, 1461, 439). THYRONECTRIA Sacc. T. deNiGRatA (Wint.) Seaver. (Pleonectria Wint.). On Gleditsia triacanthos, Monongalia : near Morgantown (Sheldon). T. Missouriensis (E. & E.) Seaver. (Pleonectria E. & E.). On dead stick, Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall, 871). CORDYCEPS Fries. C. military (Linn.) Link. In laurel thicket on ground, Aug. 12, 1893, Keeney's Creek (Nuttall, 1205, 161).