286 Patterson : New Species of Fungi 



from the Agricultural Experiment Station of Oregon, by D. W. 



Trine, and from cultures of the same made upon agar-agar. Mr. 

 A. F. Woods reports having seen the same species, which he 

 recognized as a new one, in butter from South Carolina and other 

 localities. 



Stemphylium elasticae 



Effused, grayish-black, decumbent, intricately branched, closely 

 septate, 3—3.5 fi in diameter : conidia borne in chains of 2—6 at or 

 near the tips of the fertile branches, not soon falling apart : verru- 

 cose, muriformly many-septate, constricted at the septa, darker 

 than the hyphae, irregular in shape, ovate and somewhat pyriform 

 or cylindrical, 18-45 X 9~ l % f** isthmus cell almost hyaline, 2-3 /i. 



On parts of leaves of Ficus elastica attacked by Gloeosporiiim 

 elasticae Cke. and Mass., Washington, D. C, January, 1900, 



F. W. P. 



Volutella allii 



Sporodochia black, sessile, convex, elongated, 100-150/i in 

 diameter, gregarious and sometimes confluent, densely covered 

 with rigid black setae that are smooth with pointed tips and are 

 60-175 X 6/i; conidia fusiform-falcate, hyaline, 18-21 x 3-4/^; 

 conidiophores densely crowded, unbranched, hyaline or slightly 

 olive tinged, 1 8-20 x 3 pu 



J 



J. M 



Division Vegetable Physiology and Pathology, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C. 



