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SPECIES TO BE TRANSFERRED TO PHOMOPSIS. 
951. Phoma Yuccae, Cooke, 
Phoma Yuccae, Cooke, in Grevill. 1878, vii. 32. 
Puomopsis Yuccag, Trav. Flor. Ital. Crypt. Fung. ii, p. 221. 
Phoma (Diaporthe) gloriosa, Sacc. in Mich. ii. 274 (1881); 
Syll. iii. 159. 
Pyenidia gregarious, mainly on bleached spots which are 
surrounded by a dusky margin, elliptic, depressed, black, about 
250 w long, each often bordered by a brownish or blackish halo. 
Spores elliptic-fusoid, acute at both ends, occasionally bigut- 
tulate, 7-5-9 x 2-3 4; sporophores subulate, curvulous, about 
13-15 x 2-2-5 p. 
On flower-stalks of Yucca filamentosa, Aiken, South Carolina 
(Ravenel, nos. 2580!, 2581 !). 
Cooke’s specimens are obviously the same species as that of 
Saccardo, which was on leaves of Y. gloriosa. They belong to 
Diaporthe gloriosa, Sacc. & Speg. (Syll. i. 660). 
954. Phoma brunneola, Sacc. 
Sphaeropsis brunneola, Berk. & Curt. N. Amer. Fung. in 
Grevill. 1874, iii. 1. 
PHOMOPSIS BRUNNEOLA, Grove. 
somewhat hysterii-form, occasionally confluent. Spores exactly 
fusoid, very acute at both ends, or rarely broader towards one 
end, sometimes guttulate, 9-10 x 2-3; sporophores subulate, 
straight, about as long as the spore. 
n dead stems of Smilax. Specimens examined :— 
Sphaeropsis brunneola, B. & C. on S. rotundifolia, New 
England, Sprague (Berk. Herb. no. 5269 !). 
Phoma Smilacis, Gerard (non Boy. & Jacz.) on Smilax, 
Poughkeepsie. 
Phoma Smilacis, on Smilax, Newfield, New Jersey (Ellis, 
no. 2914 !). 
Most obviously a stage of a Diaporthe, but no Diaporthe on 
Smilax seems to be known. On the same stems, in Ellis, no. 29 14, 
is the young state of Diplodia smilacina, Berk. (Sacc. Syll. ii. 
370), with spores still uncoloured. One might easily suspect 
that Phoma smilacina, Sacc. Syll. iii. 160 (Sphaeropsis smilacina, 
Peck = Macrophoma smilacina, Berl. & Vogl. Syll. Addit. p. 314) 
is nothing else than the fusoid-spored state of this Diplodia, but 
no specimens of the ‘‘ Macrophoma”’ have been seen. 
