﻿3G2 Earle : New or Noteworthy 



Ravenel, in Fung. Car. Exsic. 3: 57, distributed a fungus on 

 Arundinaria under the name of Sphaeria arundinacea Sow. In 

 the copy that I have been able to examine, these specimens are 

 identical with our Alabama material, and differ widely from 

 European specimens of Lepiosphaeria arundinacea (Sow.) Sacc. 

 (See Thiim. Myc. Univ. 1256). Apparently the references to this 

 as an American species in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 2 : 62, Ellis & Ev. N. 

 A. Pyr. 371, and Farlow & Seymour Host Index 149, are all 

 based on these South Carolina specimens, and if so this name 

 should be dropped from lists of American fungi. 



Metasphaeria mgromaculans sp. nov. 



Forming blackened, irregularly oblong or elongated areas, 

 2-8 x 1-2 mm.: perithecia few, 1-6 in a spot, buried, thin-walled; 

 ostiolum pustularly erumpent, 300-500 jx : asci 35-40 X 8/*, thin- 

 walled, clavate, short-stipitate, paraphyses thread-like, abundant : 

 sporidia obliquely monostichous or inordinate, hyaline, yellowish at 

 maturity, narrowly elliptical, ends subacute, 3-septate, 10-12 X 

 3-4 f*. 



On dead stems of Agave Virginica Auburn, Ala., July 8, 1896. 

 Underwood & Earle. 



This differs from M. Agaves Roll, in the much smaller asci and 

 spores, and in the spotting of the stem. The affected portion is 

 bounded by a black circumscribing line within the stem. 



Physalospora philoprina (B. & C.) Sacc. 



On Hex opaca, Auburn, Ala., March 17, 1897. Earle & Baker. 



This species was described (?) from North Carolina, Grev. 4 : 

 1 54, and it does not seem to have been since collected. Our 

 specimen is determined with some doubt as the description is 

 utterly insufficient for a proper identification. It affords the fol- 

 lowing characters : 



sur- 



Epiphyllous on large, dead, whitened, often apical areas, 

 rounded by a broad blackened border : perithecia buried, promi- 

 nent, long covered by the whitened epidermis, under lens apj*^ 

 ing dark with white center, rather small, 100-120/*, epidermi 

 at length cracking rimosely or stellately : asci oblong, about 4° 

 8-9 fi\ paraphyses thread-like, gelatinous, agglutinated: spot'K- 1 - 

 distichous or inordinate, narrowly oval, ends rounded, " sua - 

 curved, guttate or coarsely granular, about 16 x 4 «• 



