NEW WEST AMERICAN FUNGI. 203 
Hyphe erect, simple, brown, continuous, or occasionally 
with a single septum, straight or subundulate, mostly toothed 
or lobed at the apex, 30 to 40 x5to6y. Conidia elliptical, 
uniseptate (exceptionally biseptate), olivaceous-brown, 14 to 
22x 8 to 10 wu. 
The crowded hypheform short (4 to 14 x 4 to ? mm.), 
black, nepaeecranetar, subseriate patches on both sides of 
the leaf. 
Differs from S. maculicola, E. & K.,in the absence of any 
spots and the rather smaller conidia. . 
Scolecotrichum Asclepiadis, E. & E 
On leaves of Asclepias eriocarpa, Pasadena, Cala., July, 
1893, Prof. A. J. MeClatchie. 
Epiphyllous; forming dark colored patches 2 to 4 mm. 
diam., scattered over the leaf and finally subconfluent. 
Hyphe in small but dense tufts, simple, straight, continuous, 
brownish, about 20 x 34 to 4 u, bearing at their tips the pale 
olivaceous, obovate or elliptical, uniseptate conidia, 15 to 20 
x 9 to 11. uw, sometimes constricted at the septum. 
Hadotrichum Blasdalei, Sacc., in litt. 
On leaves of Vicia gigantea, Mill Valley, Calif., May, 
1893, W. C. Blasdale, No. 126. 
Forming small (4 to 1 mm.), gregarious, erumpent, super- 
ficial, dirty olive-colored, thin, appressed patches, mostly on 
the lower face of the leaf, which here becomes pale yellowish. 
Conidia elliptic-ovoid, mostly subapiculate at base, 12 to 26 
(mostly 15 to 20) x 10 to 14 y, variously guttulate, olive- 
brown, continuous. Basidia fasciculate, obclavate, contin- 
uous, concolorous, 22 to 26 x 7 to 9, yu, bearing a single 
conidium at the apex. 
Heterosporium tuberculans, E. & 
On dead herbaceous stems, Fort ities Colo., June, 1893, 
C. F. Baker, No. 155. 
Hyphe subfasciculate, erect, sparingly septate, olive-brown, 
100 to 150 x 5 to 6 y, simple, of about the same diameter 
throughout, subnodulose or subgeniculate above, subundulate, 
