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The synonymy is as follows :— 
Dapsilosporium stromaticum, Corda, in Sturm, Deutsch. Flor. 
ii, 76, £. 38 (1837) 
Melanconium ramulorum, Sacc. Syll. iii. 754. 
M. bicolor, var. ramulorum, Sacc. Fung. Ital. t. 1978 (non 
Corda). 
5. Melanconium apiocarpum, Link, Sp. Pl. ii, p. 90; Sace, 
Syll. iii, p. 755. 
This species is that which is also called by Saccardo M. 
sphaeroideum. The following exsiccata were examined :— 
““M. apiocarpum,” Fckl. Fung. Rhen. no. 89! 
5 wv Rabenh. Fung. Eur. no. 469! 
2 = Herb. Winter, legit Auerswald ! 
“M. sphaeroideum,’’? Roum. Fung. Gall. exs. no. 933! 
of M. apiocarpum, and of about the size he gives, viz.: -000473 = 
hey agree so with Saccardo’s figure of M. sphaeroideum 
orda shows clearly, and Saccardo indistinetly, the 
arrangement of the guttules which led to the false idea, prevalent 
among mycologists in the past, that M. apiocarpum has 1-septate _ 
res. 
M. didymoideum, Vester 
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species. The author was misled into thinking that the fungus 
usually called M. sphaeroideum on Alnus 
sphaerospermum. 
the fungus on Alder. 
example) ‘to be 
roundish or ovoid spo 
ally 10 » long), and really presenting, under a low power, a 
ss to M. sph hese and 
