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Fresenius, the type of the genus Passalora Fr., in the herbarium 

 of the New York Botanical Garden, convinces me that the two 

 are not generically distinct. Both are biophilous, and have long, 

 pannose, fasciculate, fuscous conidiophores, which bear the once 

 or more septate oval or ovate conidia both acrogenously and 

 pleurogenously. Adopting this view of the case, the name and 

 synonymy of our fungus will stand as follows : 



Passalora fasciculata (C. & E.). 



Syn. : Fusicladium fasciculatum C. & E. Grevillea, 6 : 88. 

 Mr. 1878. 



Scolecotrichum euphorbiae Tracy and Earle, Bull. Torrey Club, 

 23 : 209. My. 1896. 



Piricularia euphorbiae Atkinson, Bull. Cornell Univ. 3 : 40. 



Cercosporidium euphorbiae Earle, Muhlenbergia, 1 : 16. Au. 

 1 90 1. 



Scolecotrichum fasciculatum Shear, Bull. Torrey Club, 29 : 449. 

 Jl. 1902. 



Cercosporidium Helleri Earle, Muhlenbergia, 1:16 should 

 also be changed to Passalora Helleri (Earle). 



F. S. Earle. 



New York Botanical Garden. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. N. L. Britton returned on September 13 from a visit to 

 England. 



Mr. J. A. Shafer, curator of the herbarium of the Carnegie 

 Museum, Pittsburg, Pa., spent the month of September at the 

 New York Botanical Garden; and H. Harold Hume, of the Florida 

 State Agricultural College, has recently devoted a week to con- 

 sulting its library. 



" Forage Conditions on the northern Border of the Great 

 Basin " by Dr. David Griffiths, " Stock Ranges of northwestern 

 California" by Mr. Joseph Burtt Davy, and "The North Ameri- 

 can Species of Spartina" by Mr. Elmer D. Merrill, are titles of 

 bulletins recently issued by the Bureau of Plant Industry. 



