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Hab. Humous soil from Spandcrswoud near Bussum, Holland, June, 

 190 1, Koning. 



Bispora pusilla Sacc, Mich, i: 78. 1877; Fung. Ital. pi. 21. 1877; Syll. 

 Fung. 4: 343. 1886. Oudemans, Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat. ser. 2, 7: 292. pi. 

 33, figs. 1-2. 1902; Nederl. Kruidk. Arch. ser. 3, 2: 766. 1903. Lindau, 

 Rab. Krypt. Flora Abt. 8, i: 768. 1907. 



Colonies spreading, black; vegetative hyphae filamentous, partly sub- 

 merged and partly superficial, brown-black, articulate; conidiophores 

 erect, uniformly brown, with the exception of one or two cylindrical, 

 short, and pale basal cells; conidia in simple or branched chains, elliptical, 

 rounding at ends, rather thick-membraned, equally two-celled, not at 

 all or slightly constricted at the septum, at first hyaline, then light brown, 

 and finally dark brown, 9-12 by 4-5 m- 



Hab. Isolated from piece of decaying wood in humous soil from Span- 

 dcrswoud near Bussum, Holland, June, 1901, Koning; on decaying oak 

 and willow from various places. 



Stemphylium botryosum Wallr., Fl. Cr., 300. 1831. Sacc. Syll. Fung. 

 4: 522. 1886. 



Syn. Urocladium hotrytis Preuss., in Linnea 24: iii. 1851; Sturm Pilze6:83. pi. 

 42. 1851. Oudemans, Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat. ser. 2, 7: 293. pi. 35y fis^- 

 j-j. 1902. 



Colonies very dark, orbicular; vegetative hyphae creeping, very extended, 

 thin, irregularly branched, at first hyaline, then becoming Hght brown 

 and finally dark brown, septate, flexuose, more or less moniliform; 

 branches ordinarily short, flexuose, simple or branched, hyaline or col- 

 ored, more or less rough from the small abortive excrescences, simple or 

 forked at the summit, and serving as support to the numerous conidia ; 

 conidia terminating the primary as well as the secondary branches, with 

 short pedicel, sometimes nearly globose, sometimes elliptical or oblong, 

 divided horizontally into 2-6 compartments of which one or several 

 present a vertical or oblique septum, isabel-colored to brownish-black, 

 25-40 by 16-2 ofx; surface of conidia with age finely dotted. 



Hab. Isolated from humous soil from woods called Spandcrswoud 

 near Bussum, Holland, September, 1901, Koning. 

 Altemaria fasciculata Cooke & Ellis. 

 Syn. Macrosporium chartarum Peck, Rpt. Bot., Rpt. New York State Museum 

 25:93- 1873. 

 Macrosporium fasciculatiim C. & E., Grev. 6:6. pi. go. 1877. 

 Macrosporium Maydis C. & E., 1. c, 87. 

 Macrosporium Tomato Cooke, Grev. 12: 32. 1883-1884. 



Conidiophores brown, erect or ascending, irregularly curved, solitary 

 or casspitose, septate, diameter unifonn, 40-130/x long by 3^11 wide; conidia 

 dark brown, oblong ovate, minutely apiculate, 9-1 4m wide by 3S-90/X 

 long, endochrome transversely 2-7 septate with usually several longi- 



