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Missouri Botanical Garden 
Vor. 4 SEPTEMBER, 1917 No. 3 
ODONTIA SACCHARI AND O. SACCHARICOLA, 
NEW SPECIES ON SUGAR CANE! 
EDWARD ANGUS BURT 
Mycologist and. Librarian to the Missouri Botanical Garden 
Associate Professor in the Henry Shaw School of Botany of 
Washington University 
Among the higher fungi which have been collected by 
Mr. J. A. Stevenson in his pathological work at the Insular 
Experiment Station, Rio Piedras, Porto Rico, two species of 
Odontia on sugar cane are so well characterized as to be 
clearly distinct from species already known. Since Mr. Ste- 
venson wishes to consider these fungi in a paper which will 
appear in the Journal of Agriculture, Porto Rico, Vol. 1, No. 4, 
1917, the descriptions are now published. 
Odontia Sacchari Burt, n. sp. 
Type: in Burt Herb. 
Fructification resupinate, effused—portions may be peeled 
from substratum when moistened — floccose, white, becom- 
ing ivory-yellow to pale olive-buff with age or in the her- 
barium, not cracked, the margin thinning out, floccose-reticu- 
late under a lens; granules minute, sometimes so minute that 
they may be overlooked except in sectional preparations, 
crowded, about 8 to a mm.; in structure 100-300 р thick, with 
the granules extending 15-45 » more, composed of suberect, 
branched, loosely interwoven, hyaline hyphae 315-4 д in diam- 
eter, occasionally nodose-septate, not incrusted, bearing singly 
along their sides in their middle region hyaline, cylindric, even 
1 Issued September 20, 1917. 
ANN. Мо. Bor. GARD., VoL. 4, 1917 (233) 
