WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 47 



FUSARIUM Link. 

 F. CULMORUM Smith. 



On heads of ripe Hving wheat. MonongaHa Co., Laurel 

 Point (Millspaugh). 



"This specimen combines the characters of a number of 

 so-called species, making it difficult to say which it really 

 is. Probably they are all forms of one species." Professor 

 Peck (in letter). 

 F. SARCOCHROUM (Desiii.) Sacc. 



On Acer Negundo, April 24, 1894 (Nuttall, 1482, 462). 

 F. ALEURiNUM E. & E., Bull. Torr. Club, 24:476 (1897). 



Sporodochia compact, subtuberculiform-effused_ and sub- 

 confluent, reddish-orange, mycelium white; fertile hyphse 

 erect, imuch branched, branches erect; conidia terminal, 

 fusoid, slightly curved, continuous or faintly 1-3-septate 

 nucleate, 35 to 45 x 2.5 to 3 /x. 



On wheat flour spilt on the ground and left exposed four 

 months. Fayette, near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). 

 F. OxYDENDRi E. & E. Bull. Torr. Club 24:477 (1897). 



Sporodochia tuberculiform, about i mm. diameter, slate- 

 color, subcartilaginous, truncate or concave above, erumpent 

 through, and closelv surrounded by the ruptured epidermis; 

 hvphc-e branched, hyaline, nucleolate (olivaceous in the 

 mass) ; conidia arcuate, nucleate, continuous (as far as 

 seen), 40 to 60 x 2.5 to 3 /x. 



Allied to F. Scln.'cinitcii Ell. & Hark., but that has conidia 

 oblong, obtuse. 20 to 30 x 6 ix. 



On Oxxdendron arborenm. Fayette, near Nuttallburg. 

 March, 1896 (Xuttall. 827). 

 F. ROSEUM Link. 



On follicles of Asclcpias Syriaca, May 31, 1894. Conidia 

 55 X 4 /x + 6-septate (Xuttall, 1530, 503). 



F. ROSEUM \'ar. nov? 



On dead fruit of Diospyros Jlrgiiiiana, Aug., 1895 (Nutt- 

 all, 1831, 721). 

 F. SoLANi Mart. 



Found associated with "black rot" on Tomato fruits that 

 have fallen to the ground. Monongalia Co., at :\Iorgantown, 

 1891 (Millspaugh). 



F. sp. 



On stems of Asparagus oMcinalis, Oct. 28. 1893. Color, 

 light-pink. Conidia oblong to obovate 7.5 to 10 x 2.5 m 

 (Nuttall, 1239, 1248. 185). 



