WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 47 



FUSARIUM Link. 

 F. CULMORUM Smith. 



On heads of ripe living wheat. Monongalia Co., Laurel 

 Point ( Mills paugh ) . 



"This specimen combines the characters of a number of 

 so-called species, making it difficult to say which it really 

 is. Probably they are all forms of one species." Professor 

 Peck (in letter). 

 F. SARCOCHROUM (Desm.) ' Sacc. 



On Acer Negundo, April 24, 1894 (Nuttall, 1482, 462). 

 F. ALEURINUM E. & E., Bull. Torr. Club, 24:476 (1897). 



Sporodochia compact, subtuberculi form-effused and sub- 

 confluent, reddish-orange, mycelium white; fertile hyphae 

 erect, imuch branched, branches erect; conidia terminal, 

 fusoid, slightly curved, continuous or faintly i-3-septate. 

 nucleate, 35 to 45 x 2.5 to 3 /*. 



On wheat flour spilt on the ground and left exposed four 

 months. Fayette, near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). 

 F. OXYDENDRI E. & E. Bull. Torr. Club 24:477 (1897). 



Sporodochia tuberculiform, about I mm. diameter, slate- 

 color, subcartilaginous, truncate or concave above, erumpent 

 through, and closely surrounded by the ruptured epidermis ; 

 hyphae branched, hyaline, nucleolate (olivaceous in the 

 mass) ; conidia arcuate, nucleate, continuous (as far as 

 seen), 40 to 60 x 2.5 to 3 //,. 



Allied to F. Schweinitzii Ell. & Hark., but that has conidia 

 oblong, obtuse, 20 to 30 x 6 /x. 



On Oxydendron arboreum. Fayette, near Nuttallburg, 

 March, 1896 (Nuttall, 827). 

 F. ROSEUM Link. 



On follicles of Asclepias Syriaca, May 31, 1894. Conidia 

 55 x 4 /JL + 6-septate (Nuttall, 1530, 503). 

 F. ROSEUM - - Var. nov ? 



On dead fruit of Diospyros Virginiana, Aug., 1895 (Nutt- 

 all, 1831, 721). 

 F. SOLANI Mart. 



Found associated with "black rot" on Tomato fruits that 

 have fallen to the ground. Monongalia Co., at Morgantown, 

 1 89 1 ( Mills p augh ) . 

 F. - - sp. 



On stems of Asparagus ofUcinalis, Oct. 28, 1893. Color, 

 light-pink. Conidia oblong to obovate 7.5 to 10 x 2.5 n 

 (Nuttall, 1239, 1248, 185). 



