140 THE XTT CULTUKIST. 



On the receipt of this note of Prof. Woods, I looked 

 up Ellis and Everhart's work, a voluminous one of over 

 800 octavo pages, published by the authors at Xewfield, 

 N. J. This filbert blight is briefly described under the 

 scientific name of Cryptospora anomala, Pk., but Prof. 

 Peck writes me that "the description was made from 

 specimens discovered near Albany, N. Y., in May, 1874. 

 In 1882 this description was repu Wished by Saccardo, in 

 his "Syllage Fungorum," Vol. I, p. 470, under the name 

 of Cryptosporefla anomala. The original name in Re- 

 port 28, p. 72, was Diatrype anomala. In 1892 Ellis and 

 Everhart, in " Pyrenomycetes of North America," p. 531, 

 changed the name again, making it Cryptospora ano- 

 mala." So at present we have the names of this fungus 

 in the following order : 



Diatribes anomal, Peck, 1876. 



Cryptosporella anomala, Sacc., 1882. 



Cryptospora anomala, E. and E., 1892. 



Ellis and Everhart, aftar giving scientific descrip- 

 tion, add, "On living stems of Corylus Americana, 

 Albany, N. Y. (Peck), Iowa (Holoway), on Corylus Avel- 

 lana, Newfield, N. J. The pustules appear first on 

 the smaller branches, and are serrately arranged* along 

 one side of the branch ; afterwards they appear also on 

 the larger branches and on the trunk itself, and in the 

 course of two or three years the part of tree above 

 ground is entirely killed. The roots, however, still 

 retain their vitality, and continue to send up each year 

 a luxuriant growth of new shoots, destined to be de- 

 stroyed the succeeding year by the inexorable pest. The 

 imported trees seem to be more injuriously affected than 

 the native species." 



The observations of Ellis and Everhart and Prof. 

 Woods accord with my own, but I may say that the in- 

 fested branches often show the presence of the mycelium 

 in the bark and alburnum, by a slight shrinking, 



