﻿Alabama Fungi 367 



lous, loosely fascicled, dark fuscous, long and slender, multiseptate, 

 flexed and denticulate for the greater part of their length, 150- 

 200 x 3-4 fx : conidia hyaline, long, slender, curved, clavate, taper- 

 ing from 3-4 (i at the obtuse larger end to 1-2 j± at the smaller 



00-200 



July 



gooseberry 



This conspicuous and well-marked species attacks the goose- 

 berry foliage abundantly, causing it to fall prematurely. It is 

 probably one of the causes for the failure of this fruit in this region. 



Phyllosticta arida sp. nov. 



Spots orbicular or somewhat irregular, 3-6 mm., white, arid, 



with a narrow inconspicuous yellowish brown border : perithecia 



black, scattered, prominent on both sides of the leaf, 80-100/i; 



sporules obtusely oval to ovate, thick-walled, contents granular, 

 8-10 x 6-7^. 



On Acer Negundo, Auburn, Ala., June 5, 1897. Earle & Baker. 



On some of the spots occurs also a Discosia with curved 3- 

 septate spores about 12-14 x 3 «> with a delicate seta attached 

 "ear, but not at, each end. 



Phyllosticta macroguttata sp. nov. 



Spots orbicular, brown, sometimes becoming whitish, with a 

 broad darker brown border, 1-2 mm., abundant, but usually not 

 confluent : perithecia epiphyllous, few, 1-6 or 8 on each spot, 

 b, ack, prominent, about 80/*: sporules elliptical, 6-7x5,", 

 usually with a large conspicuous spherical vacuole 3.5-4/^ in diam " 



eter. 



Meid, 



June 28, 1 89 1. Atkinson. 



°n Mcibomia Dillenii. August 11. i8q7. Earle & Baker. 



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n 'odii E. & E. (?). On this authority this name was included in 

 ***. List Ala. Fungi, Exp. Sta. Bull. 80 : 167. It is also given 



° m the same collection in Cornell Univ. Bull. 3 : 31. P. Desmodii 



' S des cribed with spores only 3.5 x 1-5 f, which differs so widely 



■" 0r n the large conspicuously guttate spores uniformly found in 



J* e Alabama specimens that I must consider ours to be distinct. 



he spots, too, in our specimens are much smaller and are seldom 

 o r never confluent. This being so, P. Desmodii should be dropped 



0m the list of Alabama fungi. 



