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hyphopodia which occur only on certain mycelial threads. 
The setae are sometimes straight but the great majority of 
them are strongly curved near the summit. 
MELIOLA BICORNIs Wint. ? 
Heller, no. 6259, on some unknown plant of the Legu- 
minosae, Porto Rico. 
This seems to be the same as Ule’s Brazilian specimens 
issued under this name as no. 3545 of Rabenhorst-Winter, 
Fungi Europaei. These specimens are included under this 
species by Gaillard, Le Genre Meliola 99, but as the type of 
the species is from the island of St. Thomas off the coast of 
Africa the determination seems somewhat doubtful. No 
African specimens of the species have been seen. 
Meliola Chamaecristae sp. nov. 
Amphigenous and caulicolous, effused, forming a thin black 
coating; mycelial threads bright fuscous, uneven and wavy, 
4-8 p thick, cells 30-35 # long; capitate hyphopodia alternate 
or scattered, irregular subcylindric, usually curved or circi- 
nate, 16-25 x g-10 4; mucronate hyphopodia not seen; setae 
infrequent, scattered, 200-250 7 y, straight, tapering upward 
but obtuse, apex pale, pellucid; perithecia numerous, scat- 
tered, globose, small, 120-150y, thin-walied, subpellucid, 
slightly roughened by the convex uniform cells which are 10- 
12 #in diameter; asci elliptical, mostly 4-spored; ascospores 
4-septate, pale fuliginous, cylindrical, much constricted, 
obtuse, small, about 30 x IO-II # 
On leaves and stems of Chamaecrista glandulosa, Porto 
Rico, Heller, no. 6371. 
This resembles JZ. mzcrospora Pat. & Gaill. in the unusally 
small spores but differs in the larger capitate hyphopodia, 
the absence of mucronate hyphopodia, and the narrower and 
paler setae. 
Meliola circinans sp. nov. 
Forming irregular black velvety patches 5-10 mm. in 
diameter or widely confluent and effused, easily separating 
from the leaf; mycelium abundant, dark fuscous, branching 
anastomosing at wide angles, not agglutinated, somewhat 
