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S. MAGNOLIAE Peck. 



On Magnolia acuminata, Short Creek, alt. 1,000 ft., Aug. 

 16, 1894 (Nuttall, 1658). Sporules 10 x 6 ^ nucleus large. 



SIROCOCCUS Preuss. 

 S. HALESIAE E. & E., Proc., Phila. Acad., 1894, 358. 



On dead limbs Mohrodendron Carolinum (Halesia tet- 

 raptcra) Feb. 26, 1894 (Nuttall, discov. 1407, 377, 376?) 



Perithecia scattered, or 2 to 3-cornate, erumpent, sub- 

 globose about .33 mm. diameter, black, with a minute papil- 

 liform ostiolum. Sporules subglobose, about 3 p diameter, 

 greenish-hyaline, 3 to 6-concatenate, the terminal sporule 

 oblong and paler. Chains simple or sparingly branched, 

 arising directly from the proliferous layer without any dis- 

 tinct basidia, collected in stellate clusters. 



VERMICULARIA Fries. 

 V. PHLOGINA Fairm. 



On dead leaves Phlox amoena, Sept. 15, 1894 (Nuttall, 

 1606). 



V. COM PACT A C. & E. 



On Rubus odoratus, May 30, 1894; Sporules' 20 to 25 x 

 30 fji (Nuttall, 1513). On Caulophyllum thalictroides (552). 



V. PETIOLORUM Schw. 



On Aralia spinosa, and on Robinia Pseudacaciaf . Feb. 17, 

 1894 (Nuttall, 1388, 356). 

 V. TOXICA E. & E., sp. nov? 



On Rhus radicans, Aug. 18, 1894 (Nuttall, 1669, 569). 

 V. DEMATIUM (Pers.) Fr. 



On Cassia Marilandica, Oct. 28, 1893 (Nutall, 1251, 193). 

 On Heuchera Americana. 

 V. DEMATIUM - var. 



On Onagra biennis, March 9, 1894 (Nuttall, 1434, 405). 

 V. ARCTII Schw. 



On dead leaves and petioles Arctium Lappa, on ground. 

 July 21, 1894. Sporules fusiform slightly curved + or 

 20 x 3 /x. Setae 35 to + I2 5 x 3 to 5 ^ (Nuttall, 1617). 



V. SUBEFFIGURATA Schw. 



On fruit peduncles Magnolia Fraseri in association with 

 STAGONOSPORA PEDUNCULI E. & E., July 25, 1893 (Nuttall, 

 1136). 



V. SUBEFFIGURATA SCAPINCOLA Schw. 



Bases of dead leaves Yucca filamentosa cult., Feb. 19 

 1894. Sporules 18 x 2.5 /*, largest setae 200 /* (Nuttall, 1367). 

 V. TRAUTVETTERIAE Nuttall, sp. nov. 



TYPE HABITAT : On dead leaves Trautvetteria Carolinensis, 

 July 15, 1894 (Nuttall, discov. 1633). 



