Some new Fungi 



By S. M. Tracy and F. S. Earle 



Meliola anomala sp. nov. 



Epiphyllous, forming black, velvety, usually orbicular patches, 

 2—5 mm. in diameter, often with a grayish border ; perithecial 



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threads about 8 [x in diameter ; conidial (?) mycelium abundant, of 

 nearly hyaline, slender, branching threads about 4 \x in diameter ; 

 conidia not seen ; capitate hyphopodia very numerous, often 

 densely crowded, usually the upper cell oval to ovate, smoothly 

 rounded, about 16 x 12/i, occasionally angled or sublobate and 

 very rarely elongate and once septate, basal cell small and short, 

 about 6x6//; mucronate hyphopodia none ; setae very numerous, 

 dark brown, frequently septate, tip entire, blunt, the upper third 

 usually conspicuously flexed and irregular, 200-300 // long, base 

 about 7/i thick, tip 4// thick; perithecia scattered, abundant, 

 about 200 jut in diameter, of soft, small-celled parenchyma, cells 

 about 8 ft ; asci clavate to obovate, pedicellate and conspicuously 

 fascicled, 8-spored, about 100 x 20-40//; ascospores inordi- 

 nate, strongly clavate, broad above, narrowed to a blunt point 

 below, light fuliginous, 4-septate, 40-45 fi long, 12 [i broad above, 

 4/i broad below. 



On living leaves of Persea sp., Palma Sola, Fla., May H> 

 1900, S. M. Tracy, no. 6600. 



This interesting species is evidently closely related to Meliola 

 clavatispora Speg. but it differs from published descriptions of that 

 species in the much longer and curiously flexed and irregular setae, 

 and in the stalked not sessile hyphopodia. 



If this is to be considered a true Meliola and there seems no 

 reason to doubt it, it would seem to effectively dispose of the 

 scheme of classification proposed by some recent authors by which 



Meliola has been taken from its natural ^HiVq ^mono- the- Perisno- 



riaceae and thrust in among the exceedingly different Asper- 

 gillales. In this species the asci are as conspicuously fascicled 

 as in any of the Sphaeriales. 



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