BULLETIN 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
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Vol. Xl.l New York, Nov. and Dec, 1884. [No- I! & 12. 
Kansas Fungi. 
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By J. B. Ellis and W. A. Kellerman. 
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Gercospora Apocyni. — Amphigenous, on small (1-3""*") brown 
spots with a narrow raised border; often occupying only a small 
(1™™') circular area on the brown spots, or sometimes several small 
white patches of conidia on the same spot; hyphse very short, 16-20 
X 2.5/y, tufted, hyaline, simple, entire; conidia narrow-cylindric, 
45-60 X 2.5//, granular and becoming faintly 3-4-septate. 
The spots are at first purplish brown, with a purplish border, but 
become rusty brown except where whitened by the conidia. On leaves 
oi Apocynum. Aug, No. 601. 
Cercospora Desmodii.— On reddish brown, roundish or irregularly 
shaped and rather indefinitely limited spots 2-3"""*- in diameter; 
hyphae mostly hypophyllous, 70-80 x 3-4A brown, 1-3-septate, undu- 
late or often abruptly bent above, rising in loose spreading tufts of 
6-8 from a minute tubercular base; conidia oblong-cylindric and 
nucleate, becoming clavate-cylindric and mostly 3-septate, 2>^>~S^ ^ 
3-5-4/^. 
The spots become more or less confluent and the leaf assumes a 
reddish brown hue. On B. acuminatum, July. No. 585. 
Cercospora Cephalanthi.— On orbicular (i-4'^'") red-brown 
spots with a narrow, dark, raised border; hyphse mostly epiphyllous, 
tufted, brown, continuous or faintly septate 24-30 x 3-4/^, at length 
elongated (40-56/^) and crooked or undulate above; conida (mature?) 
subfuscous, oblong-cylindric, 20-30 x 3-4/^, 1-3-septate. 
The tufts of hyph^ are very minute and meagre and are seen with 
difficulty. The conidia, are not abundant. On leaves of C. occi- 
dentalis. July. No. 582. - 
Cercospora Gymnocladl— Mostly epiphyllous on suborbicular, 
grayish brown spots (3-4'"'^) with a discolored border; hyphae in 
ttiinute punctiform tufts, simple, continuous, brown, 18-25 x 4/*; 
conidia clavate-cylindric, brown, 3-6-septate, 45-60 x 5-6/^, but often 
wanting the narrow base, and much shorter (25-35/^), 2-3'septate and 
occasionally constricted at the septa. 
On leaves of Gymnodadus Canadensis. July. No. 571. 
Cercospora Pentstemonis. — Amphigenous, on orbicular 
(■25- 5'°") purplish brown spots (whitening out), with a narrow raised 
border surrounded by a purplish discoloration; hyphae brown, con- 
tinuous, nearly straight, subattenuated and more or less denticulate 
^^^^> 25-35 X 3//, forming dark tufts 70-80/i across and thickly 
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