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be confirmed by a sporeculture, as the ascospores would not happen 
to germinate, though we employed several cultur-fluida (termostate 
279), which are generally usable. 
Sphaeropsidaceae. 
Dothiorella pseudodiblasta sp. n. Pl. IV, fig. 4. 
Stromatibus caulicolis, numerosis, 1—2 (raro 3) mm. long., 
1/2—1 mm. lat., oblongis, pulvinatis, structura pseudoparenchymatico 
nec non sclerotioideo, coriaceis, circum facsiculos vasculares orientibus, 
epidermidem versus crescentibus, eamque postremo longitrorsum 
rumpentibus, pustulas brunneas formantibus. Pyenidiis in summo 
stromate insidentibus, nunc semiimmersis, nunc basi modo insculptis 
et botryoideo-coacervatis, inter fasciculos fibrosos epidermicos seriatim 
ordinatis, 100—150 x diam., forma varia, subglobosis vel ellipsoideo- 
ovoideis, ostiolo subconice protracto instructis.  Sporulis oblongo- 
fusoideis, utrinque acutiuscule rotundatis, plasmate  constanter 
bipartito pseudodiblastis, sæpius vacuolatis, 14—16 4 — 3—3%4 pm, 
hyalinis. — Basidiis tenuibus, curtis. 
Species prima Dothiorellae in planta monocotyledonea observata, 
matricem valde infestans. 
Ad caules vivos Scleriae sp. in insula St. Jan Indiae 
occidentalis (Leg. F. Boergesen). 
St. Jan: Cruz Bay, 29. 3. 1906. 
Explanation of the plate. 
Fig. 1. Eutypella Cocos. Habitus of a stroma, circ. 1/4. 
Fig. 2. Phyllachora Randiae Rehm. subsp. aculeatae. a. Habitus of the 
fungus on a leaf of Randia aculeata L., 1/1; b. Vertical section 
through a stroma with two Phyl lachora-perithecia and two 
Heetee Do jegs (the small ones) magnified; c. Conidia, 
highly ma 
Fig. 3. Spirogramma rr a. Vertical section through 3 stromata, 
1; b. Asci, 9]: c Sporidis, cire: fy; 
Fig. 4. Dothiorella poetdodiilanta a. Habitus of the fungus on a stem 
of Scleria sp.,"I1; b. Vertical section through a stroma (transversal 
section of the stem), "I; c. Conidia, c. 199913, 
17.—3.—1909. 
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