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it in the agglutinated crust-like mycelium. It certainly has 
no connection with the present species. 
I would also include here Tracy’s nos. 4079 and 7158 on 
Cladium effusum, Ocean Springs, Miss., and Braidentown, 
Fla. These have been distributed as AZ, Amphitricha Fr. 
Meliola compacta sp. nov. 
Amphigenous, forming compact, black, crusts 1-2 mm. 
in diameter; mycelial threads dark fuscous, 7 » thick, densely 
crowded and agglutinated; mycelial setae none; capitate 
hyphopodia numerous, crowded, 18 » long, the basal cell 8p 
long, the head cell globular, 10% in diameter; mucronate 
hyphopodia notseen ; perithecial setae scattered, 70-100 x 6, 
uniform in size, obtuse, often abruptly bent about 20 4 below 
the tip, the upper portion nearly hyaline; perithecia globose, 
200-225 #2; asci elliptical, 4-spored; ascospores compressed, 
cylindrical, obtuse, 4-septate, constricted, dark fuscous, 
40-45 X 14 X 10K. 
On leaves of Crossopetalum pallens, Porto Rico, Heller, 
no. 6217. 
This species is well characterized by the compact agglu- 
tinated mycelium, the peculiar perithecial setae and the com- 
pressed spores. 
Meliola Compositarum sp. nov. 
ae aaa ; mycelium forming small, 1-2 mm., black 
or dark brown spots, scattered or sparingly confluent, threads 
7p thick, cells 20-30 long; capitate hyphopodia alternate, 
25-30 # long, basal cell about 8 » long, head cell irregularly 
lobed, 15-20 wide, occasionally elongate and uniseptate ; 
mucronate hyphopodia usually opposite, bottle-shaped, 
crooked; setae none; perithecia globose, about 200 4, with 
a group of 6-12 chitinized appendages near the apex, which 
are pale fuscous, 80-100 x 204, the tip obtuse, abruptly un- 
cinate and darker; asci usually two-spored, soon evanescent ; 
ascospores cylindrical or narrowly elliptical, fuliginous, 4- 
septate, constricted, obtuse, about 45 x 14-16 yp. 
Type, Heller’s no. 6385 on Wiellughbaea sp., from Porto 
Rico. J place here also Heller’s nos. 141 and 6185 on Lupa- 
tortum sp. from Porto Rico, my own no. 45 on Eupatorium 
sp. from Jamaica, and the specimens on some unknown com- 
