SHEAR: NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI 315 
oblong to clavate-cylindric, subsessile or short-stipitate, 60-72 x 
10-12 #4, paraphyses fugacious ; spores irregularly sub-biseriate, 
oblong-elliptic, hyaline or faintly yellowish-brown when mature, 
finely granular and having a light spot at the center, 9-18 x 
5-7-5 P- 
Type, slide xo. r447A C. L. S., showing both conidia and peri- 
thecia, from a pure culture (A) made from an ascospore. Original 
material from which this ascospore was grown was from leaves of 
Vaccinium macrocarpum from New Jersey. The ascogenous form 
has not yet been found on the cranberry plant. The conidial stage 
has also been found on leaves and berries from Massachusetts. 
The fungus in both stages has been isolated from berries from 
New Jersey and Wisconsin. 
This fungus shows no sufficiently constant morphological 
characters to separate it specifically from the plant found on the 
apple or the one on the grape. Whether it should be regarded as 
the same plant which occurs on the grape or apple depends on 
the possibility of its infecting those hosts. The efforts we have 
thus far made have been unsuccessful, but are not regarded as con- 
clusive. There occur occasionally in young perithecia filaments 
about the mass of asci which have been regarded as paraphyses. 
Their inconstant character, however, renders them of little value 
for taxonomic purposes. 
There is without much doubt an older name which should be 
applied to this genus, but until we have more certain knowledge 
of the type the name Glomerella may be used. 
Gloeosporium minus sp. nov. 
Acervuli amphigenous, small, scattered, not on a definite spot, 
when occurring on fruit the epidermis is dark-colored above and 
about them ; conidia forming pale-pinkish, glutinous masses, ob- 
long-elliptical or subcylindric, sometimes inequilateral or somewhat 
clavate, usually guttulate when fresh, 6-9 x 3-4 #; sporophores 
_ Simple, slightly tapering above, 114-2 times the length of the 
Conidia ; no setae observed. 
Type, no. 1494, on fruit of cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpum, 
from the market, Washington, D. C., April, 1902, C.L. 5. ; also 
on cranberry leaves from New Jersey and isolated from leaves 
from the same state. . 
This has been grown in pure cultures for a long time, but no 
