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THE WEST VIRGI.N1A FLORA

Perithecia very small, scattered. Sporules curved, sharp pointed, 18 to 25 X 2.5 to 3 ц. Setee + 100 x 10 /1. V. LILIACEARUM West. On Asparagus officinalis, Vagnera racemosa, Clintonia urnbellulata and Iris eristata? Nov. 1, 1893 (Nuttall, 1241, 188). DOTHIORELLA Sacc. D. Asiminae E. & E., Field Mus. Bot., 1 :11o (1896)» On Asimina triloba, Feb. 2, 1894 (Nuttall, 1392, 362). Sporules 5 to 7 x 2 to 3 /1 oval or oblong, some of them slightly curved. Perithecia suberumpent, seriate, .25 mm. diameter, white inside and out, ovoid, in series of 3 to 5, raising the epidermis into short ridges split along the top so as to expose the pallid white apices of the perithecia. Sporules oval or elliptical, hyaline, 5 to 7 x 2 to 3 /1. D. minor E. & E., Field Mus. Bot., 1 :11o (1896). Type habitat: On dead limbs Liriodendron Tulipifera April I1, 1895 (Nuttall, discov. 1804, 691). Perithecia seriate-subconfluent, .5 to .75 mm. diameter, irregularly ruptured above, white inside, erumpent, splitting the epidermis into short (2 to 4 mm.) longitudinal cracks. Sporules elliptical, hyaline continuous, 5 to 7.5 x 3 to 3.5 ц. Differs from D. Liriodendri, Cke. in its much smaller sporules. D. glandulosa ( Cooke) Sacc? On Robinia Pseudacacia, March 14, 1894 (Nuttall, 1423, 395)FUSICOCCUM Corda. F. IlicinUM E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 1894, 359. Type habitat : On dying, transplanted, Ilex opaca (transplanted Dec. 28, 1893), May 24, 1894 (Nuttall, discov. 1 521, 496). Stromata cortical, convex, about 1 or 1.5 mm. diameter, multilocular, whitish inside, the tuberculiform apex pierced with a single pore, rupturing the epidermis and slightly raising it. Sporules fusoid, hyaline, nucleate 15 to 22 x 2.5 to 3 ц. F. NERvicoLUM E. & F. Bull Torr. Club, 25:509 (1898). Stromata mostly on the midrib and nerves of the leaf, elliptical, 400-600 long, subcutaneous, black, convex, the subconoid apex erumpent : sporules narrow-elliptical, hy aline, subacute, 2-nucleate, 7-10 x 2.5-3 /1• On old fallen leaves of Magnolia Fraseri, Nuttallburg, May, 1898 (Nuttall, 940).