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black epidermis. Sporules elliptical, brown, 18 to 23 x 10 to 13 /1 on pedicels of about the same length as the sporules. S. Menispermi Peck. On Menispermum Canadensis, Jan. 17, 1894 (Nuttall, 1343, 302)CONIOTHYRIUM Corda. C. FucKelii Sacc. On Parthenocissus quinquefolia, sporules globular, 2 to 2.5 ц March 31, 1894 (Nuttall, 1442). C. coNCENTRicuM (Desm.) Sacc.? On leaves Yucca ñlamentosa, Sept. 1, 1894 (Nuttall. 1187). C. PiRiNA (Sacc.) J. L. Sheldon. (Phyllosticta Sacc.) On leaves Malus, Greenbrier: at Blue Sulphur Springs (Nuttall, 1624.) On same, Monongalia: near Morgantown (Sheldon). HAPLOSPORELLA Sperg. H. Celtidis E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 1894, 362. Type habitat: On dead limbs Celtis occidentalis, Feb. 2, 1894 (Nuttall, discov. 1359, 315). Perithecia mostly in valsoid clusters of 3 to 10, small, 200 ц white inside, slightly sunk in the inner bark, their papilliform ostiola rupturing the epidermis. Sporules elliptical, brown, continuous, 18 to 22 x 10 to 12 ц on basidia of about the same length as the sporules. H. Araliae E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 1894, 362. Type habitat : On dead limbs Aralia spinosa, Feb. 26, 1894 (Nuttall, discov. 1406, 375). Stromata seriate-connate, erumpent through longitudinal cracks in the bark, and extending from 4 to 5 mm. to 2 or more centimetres. Perithecia ovate-globose, buried in the black, subcarbonaceous stroma, 3 to 6 in each single stroma, about .33 mm. diameter. Sporules elliptical, brown, 20 to 25 x 10 to 12 ц. This mav be the pvcnidia of Botryosphaeria fuliginosa (M. & N.). DIPLODIA Fries. D. LiRiodENDRi Peck. On fire killed Liriodendron Tulipifera. Oct. 16, 1894 (Nuttall, 1710). D. Salicina Lev. On dead twigs Salix nigra, March 25, 1894 (Nuttall. 1457)-