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Melanconium ee gone Bambusarum, Penz. 
et Sacc. in Malpighia, 1901, ; 
Conidia mae 8 than in the ora. equally compressed, 6-8 pu 
diam., 3-4 pt biconvex 
On culms of taisbes Java.  (n. v. 
The erga exsiccata, among ia have been examined :— 
3. Coniosporium Bambusae, Roum. Fung. Gall. Exs. no. 
936! on leaves, and no. 1198!, on ‘culms of Bambusa mitis; ibid. 
no. 3691!, on leaves of B. nigricans; Sydow, Mycothec . Germ 
no. 1197!, on old culms of bamboo. 
Gymnosporium Bambusae, ex Herb. de Thiim., on culms of 
Bambusa arundinacea, Gorizia! (legit noes Thiim. Mycoth. 
Univ. no. 885!, on the same; et mer. ai no. 
1628!, on culms of Bambusa; Sace. Mycoth: Ven. no. 1287!, on 
leaves of Bambusa arundinacea 
The examination of a long series of these specimens leads (as 
it often does in similar cases) to the conclusion that the only 
logical course is to class them all as one species, with ate 
divisions which may be called subspecies, varieties or form 
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obliquus, Dasyscypha nivea and D. virginea. its all ine cases 
only those who commer 4 shut their eyes or vouchsafe only a 
cursory examination can maintain the old distinctions, — 
arose from insufficient breadth of knowledge. It is not a 
of ‘‘lumping”’ v. “ splitting,” as in the days of the old beliet 
in the rigidity of species. There is a third course, and as usua 
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in the time and trouble of present day mycologists, not to speak 
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Bambusa, Arundinaria, Androp Pennisetum and similar 
grasses, in Europe, North and South Attica, India, Japan, Java, 
West Au caste and Tropical and Sub-tropical America. 
