Vol. 27 



No. 11 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 



NOVEMBER 1900 



New Species of Fungi from various Localities 



By J. B. Ellis & B. M. Everhart 



Asterina agaves E. & E. 



On Agave atrovirens, Apam, Mexico, April, 1900 (Professor 

 Wm. Trelease, no. 194). 



Perithecia in suborbicular groups .5-1 cm. across, superficial, 



subglobose, 80- 



obovate, 5 



60 x 20 ju : sporidia crowded-biseriate, clavate oblong, uniseptate 

 near the broader end, constricted at the septum, ends obtuse, 

 1 5-27 x 6-8 }x. 



Between and around the perithecia the leaf is thinly clothed 



with short, brown, subfasciculate hairs. 



Dothidella heucherae E. & E. 



ives of Heuchera cvlindrica, Waitesburg, Wa 



Mar. 11, 1900 (R. M. Horner, no. 1418). 



Forming a thin, suborbicular, black crust on the upper surface 

 of the leaf, .5-1 cm. diameter and becoming more or less distinctly 

 bullate and surrounded by a narrow, reddish-purple zone : asci- 

 gerous cells (perithecia) globose, small, 80-100 fi, numerous, mon- 

 ostichous, buried in the stroma the surface of which is roughened 

 by the erumpent ostiola : asci sessile, oblong-cylindrical, 22- 

 35 X 8-10 fx: sporidia biseriate, oblong, hyaline, 3-4-nucleate, 

 then uniseptate in the middle but scarcely constricted, 1 5-20 x 



3-3-5 P- 



Phyllosticia heucherae E. & E., Am. Nat. 31 : 428. 1 897, is the 



spermogonial stage of this. 



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