BRIEFER ARTICLES. 
LASIODIPLODIA E. & E., n. gen.—With Plate V.— Perithecia col 
lected in a stroma, clothed with brown mycelium; basidia and spor 
ules with paraphyses intermingled; otherwise as in Diplodia. 
Lasiodiplodia tubericola E. & E., n. sp.—Perithecia are si 
350m (inner cavity 175-1904), clothed outside with an abundant bro 
olive-green and grey. The olive-green parts show an abundant, datt 
brown, septate, branchi e brow 
cells of the host (fig. 1). It may be added also, that the matur 
spores frequently show longitudinal striations (fig. 4). the df 
As Lasiodiplodia has not been previously described, and dint 
eases of the sweet potato have been pretty thoroughly studie or 
United States, it seems more than probable that the form is 1895 
ported one. Sweet potatoes brought from Java in hist ed i 
ffected by the same fungus when they were set fro 
Baton Rouge, so in this case they could not have been infect 
the soil at the Louisiana station. he work 
Cultures of the fungus have been undertaken, looking to thé 
“ah Scho 
ing-out of its life history.—Ipa CLENDENIN, The Girls’ High 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
EXPLANATION oF PLar 
witbit 
Same. Paraphyses and immature spores 
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Fig. 3. Portion of 
Fig. 4. Mature spo 
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