1896. ] Some Species of the Genus Meliola. 225 
develop. Mycelial sete very abundant, acicular, thin (200 
x6x), of a clear fuliginous brown, with numerous septa. The 
moniliform mycelium, the absence of hyphopodia and of spores 
cause us to place this plant among the doubtful species.” 
Ravenel’s specimens seem to be the only ones known of 
this fungus. Some confusion exists in quoting his numbers, 
they being variously given as 330, 331 and 831. These seem 
tobe simply misprints of the same number. The specimen 
in the herbarium of the Division of Vegetable Physiology and 
Pathology of the U. S. Department of Agriculture is cer- 
tainly Fungi Amer. Exsic. xo. é 
In the fall of 1893 I was fortunate enough to collect this 
little-known species on Arundinaria tecta at Ocean Springs, 
Miss. The characters found in these specimens differed so 
markedly from any described species that I was inclined to 
think it new, since they afforded the combination of such dis- 
linctive marks as the divided tips of the sete and the con- 
spicuously lobed apical cell of the capitate hyphopodia. I 
nd, however, that it agrees exactly with Ravenel’s specimen 
“ag Amer, Exsic. no. 331, as represented in the herbarium 
ete, 
Saccardo’s description is incorrect as to the sete and he 
does not mention the hyphopodia at all. The specimens ex- 
amined by Gaillardwere evidently very imperfect or immature. 
The following description is taken from Ravenel’s specimen 
. 331 in the herbarium of the Division of Vegetable Physi- 
is be 
Se » branched, frequently septate, not constricted at the 
i. 7 thick; conidia not observed: ice erie 
eum abundant, dark fuscous, irregularly flexuous an 
Nodular, frequently septate, 8—gyu thick: capitate hyphopodia 
, vit, alternate, about 20-25 long; basal cell short- 
larl about 8 x 8y; apical cell broader, usually irregu- 
_ distinctly three or four lobed, 12-15 X 12-20p; on 
tip “aoe tigid, dark and opaque, 200-400 X I0y, grit . 
of ta, trifid, or occasionally 4-parted for a distanc 
