230 The Scottish Naturalist. 



about 50 or 60 diameter, brown; sporidia filiform, 15. 

 20 by 15-2, obtuse, 4-6-septate, hyaline. 



c. On Monocotyledons. 



*i47. S. Junci Desm. 3087, C.547 (D. & R. Trail, Sc. Nat. 

 1887, p. 91). 

 On dying leaves and culms of Juncus maritimus, at 

 Muchalls, and of J. effusus, there and near Aberdeen, 

 in October. 

 Dee. 

 Spots greyish, indeterminate ; pycnidia immersed, very numer- 

 ous, about 150 diam., brown, subspherical, ostiole 

 slightly prominent ; sporidia 50-60 by 2J-3, filiform, 

 ends acute or rounded, straight, or slightly curved, 12- 

 14-septate, yellowish. (Saccardo gives the sporidia as 50- 

 80 by 3, and as 12-20-nucleate, the nuclei being opaque). 

 * S. Alismatis Oud. 3093 (D. & R. Trail, Sc. Nat. 1887, 

 p. 87). See Ascochyta Alismatis. (No. 78 of this list). 



*i48. S. dolichospora Trail, S.M.3047. 



On dead stems of Scirpus lacustris, at Loch of Park. 

 Dee. 

 (Cooke's list in Grevillea enumerates under No. 546, with the 

 name " S. Traillii sp.n." what can be only & dolicho- 

 spora renamed, without reason assigned, though the 

 sporidia are described as 120-130 by 3, and 5-8 septate 

 instead of as 120-130 by 2-2 J, and with 9-12 very faint 

 septa), 

 149. S. gracillima Cooke, 3072, C. 545, S.M. 3082 (D. & R. 

 Cooke). 

 On leaves of Carex, near Edinburgh. 

 Forth. 

 *i5o. S. lineolata Sacc. & Speg 3076 (D. & R. Trail, Sc. 

 Nat. 1887, p. 91.) 

 In dead leaves of Carex arenaria, on sandhills near 

 Aberdeen, in October. 

 Dee. 

 No spots ; Pycnidia in rows, innate, subspherical, 50-80 diam., 

 dark brown, sporidia filiform, clavulate, only 35-45 by 

 J- 1 (instead of 60-70 by i|-2, as in" type from North 

 Italy), hyaline, without septa. 



