New Species of Fungi 



By Flora W. Patterson 



Hendersonia oleae 



Forming large marginal pallid patches, with brown border : 

 perithecia black, membranous, immersed, amphigenous, globose, 

 100-150//: conidia light olivaceous, oblong-elliptical, with sub- 

 acute ends, 3 -septate, not constricted, straight or slightly curved, 



10 x 3.5 f*. 



On leaves of Oka dioica, Botanic Garden, Sydney, New South 



Wales, April, 1898, J. H. Maiden. 



Leptothyrium nitidum 



Not forming spots : perithecia superficial, densely gregarious, 

 sometimes confluent, elliptical-dimidiate, black, shining, astomate, 

 occasionally longitudinally striate, context radiately cellular : 

 conidia cylindrical, straight or slightly curved, hyaline, 2. 5-3 x 1 ft: 

 sterigmata 6 x 2 /i, arising from a compact layer of hyaline, rec- 

 tangular cells, which are filled with large guttulae. 



On dry stems of Heraclettm lanatum, Longpine, Nebraska, 

 February 24, 1898, J. M. Bates, no. 769.. 



Glocosporium cassiae 



Spots alutaceous, irregular in outline, with a raised brown bor- 

 der : acervuli amphigenous, scattered throughout the spots, raising 

 the epidermis in a pustuliform manner, then erumpent : conidia 

 ovate, pointed at one end, straight or slightly inequilateral, 4-6 x 

 1.5-2 //: basidia hyaline, continuous, 15 x 1.5 //. 



On living leaves of CiiniaDiomum cassia, greenhouse, U. S. 



Department of Agriculture, January, 1900, F. W. P. 



ft 



Gloeosporium clausenae 



Spots large, irregular, subochraceous, with wavy, darker border 

 on the margin of the leaves, most especially involving the tips : 

 acervuli generally epiphyllous, very numerous, at first covered by 

 the epidermis, subochraceous, erumpent : conidia ovate-oblong, 



*Type specimens of these species are in the herbarium of the Division of Vegetable 

 Physiology and Pathology, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



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