BULLETIN 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. Xl.l New York, July, 1884. [No. 7. 
New North American Fungi- 
By J. B. Ellis and Benj. M, Everhart. 
^ciDiUM LiGUSTiCL — Cups 'small, margin narrow, subentire, 
collected in clusters 2-3 ™^"- in diameter on the under side of tlie 
leaves. Spores irregularly globose, 18-20/^ (orange?) The upper 
side of the leaf is obscurely marked with pale, yellowish spots, indi- 
cating the position of the jEcidium o]>posite. 
On Ligusticum Scoticum from the Island of Anticosti (Gulf of St, 
Lawrence), August, 1883. Prof. J. Macoun (No. 311.) 
Septoria aciculosa. — Perithccia innate-superficial, mostly in 
clusters of two or three together, black, minute, on the lower face of 
the leaf. Spores acicular, continuous, 12-20x1//. Accompanied with 
^phcE reiki Frag a rice. Tub 
On strawberry leaves. Anna, 111., May, 1883. F. S. Earle, 
Septoria Pentstemonis. — Perithecia punctiform, black, epi- 
phyllous, on small, white, round, thin spots, with a dark, purple- 
shaded border ; spores cylindrical, slightly curved or undulate, 14- 
20x1//, faintly nucleate. 
On leaves of P. digitalis. . Anna, III, June, 1883. F. S- Earle. 
The perithecia are visible on both surfaces of the leaf, but open 
above. 
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ExciPULA suBCALVA.— Excipulura thin, substriate, 150-200/^ in 
diameter, margin incurved when dry, jagged and uneven from the 
unequally developed tips of the brown, elongated constituent cells ; 
l^asidia slender, branching 50-75/* long, bearing at their tips the 
minute (3-4 x .5-75/^) oblong-cylindrical spores. 
On fallen leaves of Otiercus obtusiloha. Newfield, N. J., May, 
1882. 
Hendersonia platypus.— Seated on oblong or roundish white 
spots 2-4 X 1-2"""-, perithecia punctiform, black, subelongated; spores 
mostly oblong elliptical, but rather variable in size and shape, mostly 
12-15x3.5-4;^, but some of them shorter and broader, and some 
longer (19;/) and narrower, all 3-septate, yellowish-brown, on ped- 
icels about 7// long, with a broad base. The cuticle of the cane is 
soon eaten away in the white spots, leaving the surface of the inner 
bark exposed in the shallow depressions thus formed. Accompanied 
j;'th a Phonia (/-. hthalis, E. & M.) having small subglobose (2 x 1.5A') 
brownish spores. . , . 
^Differs from H. sdrmenionm, West., in its smaller perithecia on 
^hite spots, and its rather smaller spores on pedicels swollen at the 
base. On living canes of Rubus villosus and R. Canadensis. Cobden, 
A"-, Feb., 1884. F.S. Earle. 
