212 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ August, 
united by a black exudate, soluble in various reagents. There is also a 
delicate inner peridium, quite apparent in some species of Graphiola, 
but not easily demonstrated in this one. The long yellow filamentsare 
composed of parallel mycelial threads, each strand or filament containing 
fifty or more united into one body. From the pseudo-parenchymatous 
floor of the crater, between the bases of the yellow filaments, arise many 
elongated, unbranched or basally branched, colorless hyphx, which con- 
strict into nearly isodiametric cells. On the side wall of these cells the 
nascent spores appear in the form of buds, which enlarge, become sepa- 
rated from the mother cell, grow and subdivide after separation, to become 
finally the round or ellipsoidal, smooth-walled, one-celled or two-celled, 
mature spore. The nascent spores develop on the hyphe basipetally. 
There are usually from three to six on each mother cell, and all of these 
mature at the same time. The mother cell often separates from the 
hyphe along with the nascent spores, to which it remains attached for 
some time. The ripe spores are three to six'millimeters in diameter, 
with a somewhat thick episporium, and a contents showing refractive 
agrees pretty well with some of the smuts in the manner of spore-forma 
ion and mode of germination. In having a persistent mycelium in the 
form of a peridium it recalls Dossansia, Sphacelotheca, and similar aber- 
rant forms of the Ustilagines, which, though perplexing to the system 
ust, are very interesting to the student of evolution. 
After many failures Fischer succeeded in growing the fungus. The 
Spores were sown in December on the immature fronds of a young pe 
and the characteristic fungus spots first appeared in the following Octo- 
Graphiola Phoonicis is very widely distributed. It occurs in Inds 
Algiers, Egypt (?), Italy, Austria, Germany, Holland, Belgium, England, 
Scandinavia, French Guiana, and the United States. 
ceived it from several localities. The specimens collected by Ra’ ne 
8. C., on Chamerops, and published in Fungi Caroliniana, Fase. 4. ie 
