SPEGAZZINIAN MELIOLA TYPES 
F. L. STEVENS 
(WITH PLATES XXIV—XXVI) 
Through the kindness of Dr. CARLO SPEGAZZINI, I have received 
recently a number of original packages containing type specimens 
of Meliola described earlier by Dr. SPEGAzzrNt. In each case the 
packet bore on the outside copious penciled notes concerning the 
specimen and careful, delicate drawings of the more significant 
structures. This collection of types, together with the notes and 
drawings in particular, are a fine commentary on the work of Dr. 
SPEGAZZINI. When we remember the large volume of his descrip- 
tive work and reflect that not only his types but other specimens 
as well are thus thoroughly and carefully annotated and figured, 
we are in a position more adequately to recognize the great indebted- 
ness of mycology to him. 
The drawings of the present collection have not been published, 
and in view of the comparative inaccessibility of most of these 
types, it is desirable that they should be made generally accessible 
to students by publication. 
Permission having been received from Dr. Specazzin1, Dr. 
Alva Peterson has faithfully copied for me, for publication, the 
most important of the drawings. Such copying was necessary, 
Owing to the color of the paper upon which the originals were drawn, 
and the faintness of the penciling, which prohibited direct photo- 
graphic reproduction. These drawings have been compared by 
me with the type material and are published herewith with such 
comments as seem necessary. A permanent celloidin mount* has 
been made from each specimen and, together with a fragment of 
the type specimen, is deposited in the herbarium of the University 
of Illinois. The original specimens have been returned to Dr. 
SPEGAZZINI at La Plata, Argentine. 
MELIOLA ARMATA Speg. (fig. 1).—F. Puigg., Pug. I, no. 231; 
Sacc. 93415. 
*STEVENS, F. L., Phytopathology 6: 367. 1916. 
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