54 
P. insularis are only P. Aucubae, where the ascophorous stage, 
to which the circumscribing black line mene is beginning to 
be formed. There is no other difference 
8. Phomopsis Beckhausii, Z'rav. l.c. p. 270. Phoma Beck- 
hausti, Cooke in Grevill. xiii. 
__ Spores sublanceolate, 8-10 x 2-2°5 u. 
‘On dead branches of Viburnum Lantana, in company with 
young Diaporthe Beckhausit, Nits. According to von Héhnel 
P. tinea, Sacc. is identical with P. Beckhausii. 
9. P. Cacti, Grove. Phoma Cacti, Berk. Plants Port. Welw. 
1853, p. 12. 
Spore oblong- ellipsoid, subacute at the ends, 6-8 x 15-2 p; 
sporophores cylindrica uM erowded, about as long as the spore or 
twice as ao (Fig 
n dead stems of Castes The British specimens ‘examined 
Giudacdals fess Highgate) are a true Phomopsis; those from 
Portugal (Crypt. Lusit. no. 72) are the same, but in them were 
found large numbers of fi iform hooked spores, 18-20 x 0-75 p, 
in the same pycnidia with the ellipsoid spores—these os reat 
saw ahd ealled (l.c.) ‘‘ filiform sporophores The ety 
Opuntiae assigned to this species by Saccardo (Syl. ill. 138). must 
be something different, being apparently not a Phomopsis. 
cokQera Be Calystegiae, Grove Phoma Calystegiae, Cooke in 
Grevill. xiii. 
Spores sublanceolate, narrowed at each end, 7°5-8 x 2:5 u 
-On dead stems of Calystegia sepium The pycnidium aac 
the change usual in a Phomopsis, from the early imperfect to the 
later fully-formed state. 
iP, bor thd a Grove. Phoma Caryophylli, Cooke in 
Grevill. xiii. 
_ Spores tusoid: somewhat obtuse at the ends, 7-9 x 2-25-2°5 py; 
sporophores rod-shaped, 12-15 x 2p. (Fig. 
On the calyces, peduncles and stems of cultivated Dianthus. 
The dead stems were in parts widely stained with black; evidently 
the pyenidium of an unknown Diaporthe 
ee ee aa tage Grove. Seg caulographa, Dur. et 
Mont. Flor. Alg., ex Sacc. Syll. 6. 
Spores oblong-fusoid, often Hisihlateral, acute at lower end, 
7-8 x 2-25 #3; sporophores densely crowded, subulate, 10-12 x 
“Tb. p, pene from a very fertile stratum. 
a ead stems of Chae rophyllum temulum, Warwickshire, 
reesterakine | The Yorkshire specimens recorded in the 
Naturalist (1904, p. 6) do not seem to be the same. I have seen 
no published authentic specimens, but mine have the black line, 
suggestive of a Diaporthe, very well developed, and the pyenidia 
aggregated in short linear series on the lanceolate blackish cir- 
cumscribed per But they are not erumpent by a slit, and thus, 
apart from the spots, this species is different in habit from 
striaeformis, var. hysteriola (no. 66); the young Sheer wall 
is of the scorer imperfect character. 
