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ferred to a tank in the university plant-house, where they are 
growing vigorously, and it is hoped will have soon multiplied 
enough to admit of a distribution. These Sa/vinias were col- 
lected early in October, but were overlooked in the first exami- 
nation of material. Not until they had separated from the mass 
of Lemnas, Myriophyllums and Potamogetons with which they 
were gathered were they noted. Six good-sized plants are at 
present growing in the tank, double the number that first ap- 
peared. The leaves are a trifle smaller than indicated in the 
figure in Luerssen’s Farnpflanzen, Vol. III of Rabenhorst’s Aryf- 
togamen Flora, page 601, otherwise the plants are strictly typi- 
cal. The lake from which they were collected is in a boggy tract 
surrounded with trees of Larix and hard-wood timber. It is 
fed from cold springs and rains. Perhaps the smaller size of 
leaves in Minnesota specimens is due, however, not to the cold 
lake, but to the time of collection being so late. 
Conway MACMILLAN. 
University of Minnesota. 
A New Anthracnose of Peppers. 
While in Gloucester Co., N. J., during August I observed that 
the pepper (Capsicum annuum) fruit was decaying badly. The 
pepper is usually attacked near the free end and quickly the fun- 
gus spreads in all directions, internally as well as through the 
thick walls of the fruit. At first the spot is of a grayish color 
upon the green surface of the half grown fruit, followed by a dark- 
ening of the affected portion and often a premature red colora- 
tion in the vicinity of the decay. Peppers are grown in large 
quantities for the Philadelphia and other markets, and in some of 
the fields the yield is materially reduced by this trouble. Upon 
some plants the disease is much worse than others and with such 
sometimes a half dozen fruits may be found in decay. 
Upon a microscopic examination of this fungus it was found 
to be a member of the genus Colletotrichum but differing mate- 
rially from any other in having a great number of large, almost 
jet black bristles. The following is a description of the passat 
anthracnose of the pepper. | ' 
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