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The general appearance is that of Hysterium pulicare, 

 from which it is easily separated by its sporidia. ^ H. siyg- 

 ium, Oke. (of which we have now seen an authentic spec), 

 has 'the perithecia rugulose, lips widely separated (almost 

 pezizoid), asci shorter and broader (75-80x22-25//), and 

 sporidia, elliptical and broader (25-30x12-14/0, and is a 

 very different thing. 



Rhopographus fusariisporus, E. & E. 



On dead culms of Panicum virgaium, Rockport, Kansas, 

 March, 1893. Bartholomew, No. 979. 



Stromata elliptical or linear, f-U mm. long, the elongated 

 forms resembling an indehiscent Hystermm. Cells ma 

 single series, minute, globose. Asci clavate-cylmdncal, 65-7D 

 x7_8//, short - stipitate, paraphysate, 8-spored. bporidia 

 biseriate, fusoid, 3-septate (one septate at first), hyalme 

 curved, scarcely constricted, narrowed gradually to each end 



Fusarhim, 20— 27x3^— 4//. 



turmalis 



On leaves of Vitis riparia, Rockport, Kansas, Sept., 1863. 

 E. Bartholomew, No. 1136. 



Spots scattered, irregular, suborbicular or partly limited 

 by the veinlets of the leaf and subangular, brownish, 2-4 

 mm diam. margin darker. Perithecia hypophyllous numei- 

 "ut crowded, 'black, minute (60-75/. diam.) Sporu es 

 obi;ng-cylindrical, a little thicker at the ends, hyalme, 



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Macrophoma Negundinis, E. & E. 



On small dead limbs of Negundo aceroides, Fort Collins, 

 Colorado, May, 1893. C. F. Baker, No. 156. 



Perithecia scattered, discoid, 4-1 ^^^1. diam., <^or^^^^J^^^ 

 the epidermis, which is blackened over them Sporules 

 oblong-elliptical, 20-25xl0-llj«, hyaline, granular at first, 

 borne on conic-cylindrical basidia 15— 20x5//. ■ 



On the same limbs, associated with SphaeropsiS albescens, 



E. & E., was found 



