1888. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 29. 
of greater stamens 2-3, clavellate-tipped, one-third longer 
than the uniporose anthers: capsule shortly obpyramidal, — Ri 
acutely triquetrous, 3 lines broad; seeds obconical, muricu- iS 
late, pale with a red ari -—Damp rocks in the Pansamala for- “ 
ests, alt., 3,800 feet, Aug., 1886. (Ex. Pl. Guat. cit. 720.) 
_, Myriocarpa heterostachya. (7, heterospicata, Bor. GAZETTE, - 
XM. 133.)—Moneecious and dicecious.—More recent speci- uae 
mens exhibit male and female spikes borne on distinct plants, ore 
as well as in distinct axils of the same plant.—Forests of Pan- 
_ Samala, alt. 4,000 feet, Jan., 1887. (Ex. Pl. Guat. cit. 366.) 
The Opportunity is seized to correct also the hybrid name first 
Uncinula polycheta B. & €. 
S. M. TRACY AND B. -T. GALLOWAY. 
Bice facts as have been noted in a recent examination of fresh spec- 
-_' Imens collected on Sand creek, five miles east of Starkville, 
_ Miss, will be of interest to -mycologists. 
given. The earliest published description is by erkeley 
mee Curtiss, in Grevillea, vol. iv, p. 159, 1875-76, as follows : 
aline. On leaves of Celtis occidentalis. Carolina. No. 
2°19. In Saccardo’s Syloge Fungorum, vol. i, p. 9, occurs 
the following ( translation) : **Pleocheta. Saccardo and Speg- 
82zini. Michel. ii, p. 373. Perithecia imbedded in the 
mycelium, globose-lenticular, without aperture, texture sub- 
‘Corlaceous, parenchymatous, appendages very numerous, 
-Tadiating, clavate, straight, simple, forming a hyaline band. 
C1 clavate, two-spored, spores rarely oval, without septa, 
a7 yaline. Appendages very close 70 rh straight, sub- 
Ayaline at the base, asci smooth, etc. , 
“phe and Uncinula. P. Curtisit, Sacc. and Spez. Fung 
7 ge ug. NH, % ee : 
Berkeley and Curtis Grey. 1876, p. 159. Uncinula Lynckir 
