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fungus made no further progress, except several spots which showed the 
brownish hyphz, but no conidia. The plants upon which no sowings 
were made remained healthy. If the experiment had been made earlier 
in the season the development of the fungus would have been more 
rapid. A form of ©. Apii is quite common on Pastinaca, but is quite dis- 
tinct from C. Apii on cultivated celery. In the Journal of Mycology (vol. 
I, p. 87), the form on Pastinaca is included under C. Apii Fres. Mr. Ellis 
thinks, however, that the form on Pastinaca might be called C. Pustinace 
with propriety, as distinct from C. Apii Fres—B. T. Ga.toway, 
Columbia, Mo. 
An American Papaver.—Last summer Mr. John Spence, a florist of 
Santa Barbara, collected many plants in the high mountain regions of 
Santa Barbara County, which he submitted to me for examination. 
Among other novelties were the beautiful orange-colored blossoms of a 
Papaver. In the absence of root or foliage, it was not easy to tell 
whether it was P. Rhosas of Europe or something new; but, judging from 
the location in which it was obtained, I suspected it might be something 
new, and sent it to Dr. Gray. On a visit to the same locality later in the 
season, Mr. Spence obtained ripe seed, and succeeded in raising perfect 
plants, specimens of which he has sent to Dr. Gray, who decides that it is 
anew species. Being the first American representative of the genus, Dr. 
Gray very appropriately christened it Pupaver Californica. Mr. Spence 
says the plant is found in quantity where the ground had been burned 
over the previous season, and that the large masses of brilliant orange 
flowers could not fail to attract attention. The same plant was found 
last year, by other individuals, in two different localities in the Santa 
Ynez mountains, and under the same conditions, on ground that had 
been burned over the previous year; but we have no report of its having 
been collected before last year—Mnrs. R. F. BINGHAM. 
Vermicularia phlogina Fairman (n. sp.)—Perithecia very delicate, 
minute, superficial, sparingly clothed with bristles of varying length, 
subhyaline above, darker below, continuously or sparingly septate, 60-100 
4 long and 5-7 » thick, tips (especially the longer ones) obtuse: sporules 
oblong, fusoid, hyaline, slightly curved, endochrome at length imperfect- 
ly divided in the middle, 15-20><2}-8 ».—Differs from V. Coptina Pk. in 
its smaller, paler perithecia and different bristles. 
On leaves of Phlox divaricata. Ridgeway, Orleans County, New 
York, July, 1836, 
_ This Verm‘cularia occurs on the phlox leaves, (generally after flower- 
ing of the host), often mixed with a Cladosporium (C. epiphyllum Nees?) 
‘ometimes pure, and at times suspected leaves have only the Cladospo- 
Mum present,—CHar.es E. FarrMan, Lyndonville, New York, 
