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THE WEST VIRGINIA FLORA into a stout, conical beak opening by a single round pore at the apex. Sporules oblong or allantoii!, hyaline, 5 to 7 x 1.25 ц. sp. On Chionanthus Virgimca, March 28, 1894 (Nuttall, 1455, 427). TUMULOSA E. & E. Bull. Torr. Club, 24:288 (1897). Stroma cylindric-conical, erumpent, brown, lighter inside, about I mm. broad, the upper erumpent part .75 mm. high; sporigerous cells perithecioid, whitish, globose, sunk in the lower part of the stroma ; sporules allantoid, hyaline, curved, 6-8 x 1.5 ц. On dead buds of Magnolia Fraseri. Fayette : near Nuttallburg, March, 1896 (Nuttall, 808). Persicae Schw. On Amygdalus Persica cult. "Early Rivers," Tune 30, 1893 (Nuttall, 1 106). sp. On Cercis Canadensis, April 10, 1894 (Nuttall, 1471, 447). Spores 5 to 6 x .75 ц. Rhoin. Fr. On Rhus hirta, June 20, 1894. Sporules 5 to 8 ц. (Nuttali, 1 55 1, 636). caryigena E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 1894, 359. Type habitat: On dead limbs Hicoria ovata, May 31, 1894 (Nuttall, discov. 1524, 513). Stroma cortical, convex. 1.5 to 2 mm. diameter, slatyblack, 4 to (Vcelled, cells yellowish-white, subglobose, small. Sporules allantoid, hyaline 3.5 to 4.5 x .75 to 1 ц. (Spermogonia of Valsa caryigena, B. & C.) ? Rhois-hirt.nf. Nuttall, Field Mus. Bot., 1:112 (1896). On Rhus hirta, June 10, 1894 (Nuttall, 1533, 635). The form is clearly distinct from C. Rhoinai Ft. Cirrus reddish yellow. Perithecia very prominent. Spores 8 to 10 x 2 to 2.5 ц. Sassafras E. & E. Field Mus. Bot., 1:112 (1896). Type habitat : On fire-killed twigs of Sassafras Sassa fras, Dec. 20, 1894 (Nuttall, discov. 1766, 666). Jamaica, Long Island (F. C. Stewart). Stromata thickly scattered, conical, rising from an or bicular base about 1 mm. diameter, the black, shining apices erumpent and roughening the bark, at first multilocular, becoming unilocular. Sporules allantoid, hyaline, only slightly curved. 4 to 5 x 1 ц borne on simple, straight basidia about 12 ц long.