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NEW WEST AMERICAN FUNGI.— III. 

 By J. B. Ellis and B. M, Everhart. 



Asteridium bicolor, E. & E. On leaves of Ardostaphylos- 

 bicolor, Cedros Island, Lower California. A. W. Anthony. 



Maculicolous, hypophyllous. Spots orbicular, about 2 mm. diaru., 

 brown, nearly black above. Perithecia innate-erumpent, flattened, 

 and subumbilicate-collapsed above. Asci oblong-obovate, short- 

 stipitate, 2 2-26x1 8-22,«, with abundant filiform paraphyses. Spo- 

 ridia oblong-fusoid, fasciculate, yellowish, becoming brown, 3-4-sep- 

 tate, scarcely constricted, 18-20x6-7/-'-. 



Homostigia Rhoinum, E. & E. On dead leaves of Rhus. 

 integrifolia, San Diego, Cal., March, 1895. K. Brandegee (No. 15}.. 



Stromata epiphyllous, sphaeroid, gregarious, ^-^ mm. diam., prom- 

 inent but closely covered by the blackened ejiidermis, which is rup- 

 tured at the apex. Ascigerous cells 2-5 in a stroma, sphseroid^ 

 white inside, 80-120// diara. Asci oblong-clavate, short-stipitate, 

 60-70x12-14//.. Paraphyses filiform, abundant, often curved above. 

 Sporidia biseriate, oblong-fusoid, 4-se2itate, constricted at the middle, 

 hyaline, subobtuse, 15-18x3^4-1//. 



Associated with Didymosjjorium Rhoinum, E. & E., on the same 

 leaves. 



Didymosporium Rhoinum, E. & E. On leaves of Rhus 

 infegrifolia, San Diego, Cal., March, 1895. K. Brandegee (No. 15, 

 in part). 



Acervuli epiphyllous, subcutaneous, globose, ^-jr mm. diam.,, 

 black, slightly raising the epidermis and blackening it with the 

 ejected, oblong-fusoid, uniseptate, 12-14x3^^-4// spores. 



Cercospora Hyptidis, E. & E. On Hyjyiis, Playa Maria, 

 Lower California. A. W, Anthony. 



Forming indefinite, tobacco-brown patches on the under side of 

 the leaf. Hyphee fasciculate, simple, brown, sparingly septate, 75— 

 100x3^4//. Couidia fusoid-cylindrical, straight, 30-40x3-4/^,. 

 brown, uniseptate. But for the brown conidia and hyphse this 

 would be Ramularia. 



