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would be changed. Whether the subsequent stability of generic 
names would not entirely overbalance this objection is a question 
worthy of careful consideration, for if botanists are to follow arbi- 
trary rules for the sake of uniformity in nomenclature, it is not 
probable that they will be satisfied until a system is framed which 
shall insure the uniformity. 
New Species of Fungi. 
By J. B. ELLIs AND B. M. EVERHART. 
I. SANDWICH ISLAND FUNGI. 
Collected by Mr. A. A. Heller, in the Island of Oahu, during 
the summer of 1895. 
MELIOLA Sanpicensis E. & E. 
Mycelium amphigenous, but mostly hypophyllous, forming 
suborbicular black patches 2-4 mm. diam. with a well defined 
outline. Mycelium abundant, with opposite spreading branches 
6-7 thick. Capitate hyphopodia abundant, opposite, small (12- 
15 X 6-7 p), short-stipitate, the upper cell ovoid or subglobose ; 
mucronate hyphopodia very scarce, ampulliform with a short, 
straight neck, found occasionally standing opposite a capitate hy- 
phopodium. Bristles abundant, both on the mycelium and sut- 
rounding the lower part of the perithecia, 300-500 yp long, 8-10 /4 
thick, generally with slight swellings at intervals, translucent- 
brown at first, finally almost opake, septate at intervals of about 
40 p, gradually attenuated above toa point. Perithecia scattered on 
the mycelium, subglobose, of coarse, cellular structure, papillose- 
roughened, ;50-200 yz diam. subostiolate, finally collapsing. As- 
ci clavate-elliptical, 50 X 25-30 yp, sessile, 2-3-4-( mostly 2- ) 
spored. Sporidia oblong-cylindiical, 4-septate and constricted at 
the septa, rounded at the ends, 33-40 X 12-15 p, brown. 
The bristles are so abundant that the patches of mycelium Te 
semble dense tufts of black hair, almost entirely hiding the pet 
ithecia. This character, with the greater length of bristles and 
the comparative absence of mucronate hyphopodia, with the ed. 
spored asci, distinguish this from M. malacotricha Speg., MV. amphi- 
tricha Fr., and the other species having similar sporidia. 
On leaves of some plant of the Family Rubiacez. No. 2369- 
