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dener's Chronicle, vol. XXV, new series p. 695, (fig. 125.) Our species is certainly 

 Niessl's P. Androsaces according to F. En., No. 3380. I have examined P. Anagallidis 

 Schroeter, in Rabenh. F. Eu., Nos. 1744 and 1745, and P. Androsaces Niessl., in Rabenh 

 Wint. F. Eu., No. 3380, and think they are certainly the same species as P. Androsaces 

 Niessl., in Kell. & Sw. Kansas Fungi, No. 41. The conidiophores of the Kansas speci- 

 men are slightly stouter and perhaps less branched, and the conidia are slightly 

 larger than in the European specimens mentioned. The oospores are larger but of 

 the same character. The following measurements are given to show the differences 

 between the specimens examined. The conidia in all are oval, ovate, or more rarely, 

 sub-globose, and are slightly dusky. The oospores of all have a very thick, irregular 

 epispore and thin oogonia, which collapse, probably adding to the apparent thick- 

 ness of the epispore. The endospore (?) is somewhat variable in thickness. In 

 optical section the oospores appear angular in most cases, but are sometimes nearly 

 smooth. It should, I think, be placed in the sub-section Effusae. 



MEASUREMENTS.* 



* The conidia were in all cases mounted in very dilute KHO,and the oospores weremounted in water. 

 The measurements were made with an eyepiece micrometer having divisions of a value of 3/^. 



f'Suecia: prope Upsala. In foliis vivis Androsaces septentrionalis L., Mai, 1884, leg. C. J. Johan- 

 son." 



X [Oospores] "Auf Anaggallis coerulea Schrb. Auf einem Acker bei Rastatt, im October und No- 

 vember, 1873. Dr. Schroter." 



? [Conidia] "An der untern Flache lebender Blatter der Anagallis coerulea Schreb. Am Fusse 

 der Weinberge hinter Unterissdorf bei Eisleben { Prov. Sachsen), August, 1873, leg. Johannes Kunze." 



II " On Androsace occidentalis Ph. Manhattan, Kansas, April 22, 1888." 



1["Sur les fenilles vivants d.eV Anagalis caerulea. Dans un fosse desseche a Luchon (Haute-Ga- 

 ronne.) Etel888: Ch. Fourcade." 



