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THE WEST VIRGINIA FLORA Perithecia scattered, innate, small, slightly prominent and covered by the shining, blackened epidermis, 150 to 250 д diameter, mostly sub-elliptical. Sporules oblong, hyaline, nucleate, becoming one or more septate, 12 to 20 x 2 to 5 /1. PEDUNCULi E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 1893, 457. Type habitat: On old fruit peduncles Magnolia Fraseri (not LiRioDENDRON Tuupifera, loc. cit. ). Short Creek, July 25, 1893 (Nuttall, discov. 1 135, 119). Perithecia gregarious, pustuliform, about .33 mm. diame ter, covered by the blackened epidermis. Sporules cylin drical, 18 to 22 x 2 to 2.5 ц, multinucleate, hyaline, straight. Physocarpi E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 1894, 365. Туi'е habitat: On dead stems and limbs Opulaster opuiifolius, May 12, 1894 (Nuttall discov. 1505, 485). Perithecia scattered, depressed-hemispherical : 200 to 250 ц diameter, sunk in the bark, with the upper part prominent but covered by the epidermis, which is pierced by the papilliform ostiolum. white inside. Sporules linear, multiseptate, hyaline 25 to 35 x 3 to 4 ц. COLLAPSA (C. & E.) Sacc. On Acer saccharinum, Jan. 26, 1894. Sporules 15 to 23 x 3 ц (Nuttall, 1353, 309). sp. On Chionanthus Virginica (Nuttall, 1462, 440). Spores -(- 25 x 7 ц 4-septate. This may prove to be only a stylosporus stage of some Diothidaceous species— Ellis.

GLOMERELLA S. & Von S. G. RUFOMACUI.ANS (Berk.) S. & von S. Berkeley: on Malus Malus fruit at Gerrardstown (H'aite). CAMAROSPORUM Schulz. C. Linderae E. & E., Field Mus. Bot., 1 :1 1 7 (1896). Type habitat: On dead limbs Benzoin Benzoin, April 15, 1895 (Nuttall. discov. 180S, 694). Perithecia scattered, semierumpent .75 mm. diameter, the upper part, except the papilliform, erumpent ostiolum, cov ered by the closely adherent epidermis, which is raised into distinct, hemispherical pustules. Sporules oblong. 3-septatc with i to 2 cells divided by a longitudinal septum, brown, obtuse, not constricted 12 to 18 (mostly 12 to 15) x 5 to 7 /1. The perithecia are of a firm consistence and slaty-black inside SEPTORIA Fries. S. Tecomae E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 1894, 367. Type habitat: On leaves Teemna radicans, Aug. 11, 1894 (Nuttall. discov. 1671, 580").