226 The Botanical Gazette. [April, 
constricted at the septa, ends obtusely rounded, 50-604 long, 
somewhat flattened, seemingly elliptical, 18—20y wide in front 
view, but cylindrical and 12-154 wide in side view.—-On 
living leaves of Arundinaria, Georgia and Mississippi. 
Notes on specimens of Meliola. 
Perhaps no group of fungi is in greater confusion in most 
American herbaria than the species of Meliola and their allies 
in the other genera of the Perisporiaceze. This is largely at- 
tributable to the fact that the specimens of so many published 
exsiccati are incorrectly named. Having recently had occa- 
sion to examine the specimens in the herbarium of the Di- 
vision of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology of the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, the following notes may prove of 
general interest: 
Meliola amphitricha Fr., Bonin Islands, U. S. North Pacific 
Exploring Expedition.—This is mentioned by Gaillard! 
among the forms which he refers to M. amphitricha Fr., but 
this specimen differs from his description in the much smaller 
(only 16 xX 124) capitate hyphopodia, which often have the 
apical cell conspicuously lobed, and in the evident false ostio- 
lum of the perithecium. The sporidia also differ in being 
Strictly cylindrical (not elliptical), with the rounded apical 
cells longer than the rather short medial ones. : 
_Meliola amphitricha Fr., on Callicarpa americana, Gaines 
ville, Florida, Ravenel: Fungi Amer. Exsic. no. 84.—This§ 
Meliola cookeana Speg. It is the same as N. A. F. mo. 1295: 
_ Meliola amphitricha Fr., on Gordonia lasianthus, Louis 
jana, 1885, coll. Dr. Palmer (herb. no. 1785).—This is Mel- 
= cryptocarpa E. & M., and is the same as N. A. F. ™ 
Meliola amphitricha Fr; on Laurus carolinensis, Hom 
H. W. Ravenel, no. 116a.—This is 90 
Meliola amphitricha F r., on Persea palustris, Green 
Springs, Florida, March, 1883, Dr. Martin, A. F 
1290.—This is the type of Meliola martiniana Gaillard.’ 
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