WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 47 



FUSARIU:M Link. 

 F. cuLiiORUM Smith. 



On heads of ripe living wheat. IMonongalia Co., Laurel 

 Point (Millspattgh). 



"This -specimen combines the characters of a number of 

 so-called species, making it difficult to say which it really 

 is. Probably they are all forms of one species." Professor 

 Peck (in letter). 



F. SARCOCHROUM (Desm.) Sacc. 



On Acer Xegimdo, April 24, 1894 (Xnttall, 1482, 462). 

 F. ALEURiNUM E. & E., Bull. Torr. Club, 24:476 (1897). 



Sporodochia compact, subtuberculifonn-effused and sub- 

 confluent, reddish-orange, mycelium white ; fertile hyphse 

 erect, ,much branched, branches erect; conidia terminal, 

 fusoid, slightly curved, continuous or faintly 1-3-septate. 

 nucleate, 35 to 45 x 2.5 to 3 /x,. 



On wheat flour spilt on the ground and left exposed four 

 months. Fayette, near Nuttallburg (Xuttall). 

 F. Ox\T)EXDRi E. & E. Bull. Torr. Qub 24:477 (1897). 



Sporodochia tuberculiform, about i mm. diameter, slate- 

 color, subcartilaginous, truncate or concave above, erumpent 

 through, and closely surrounded by the ruptured epidermis ; 

 hyphae branched, hyaline, nucleolate (olivaceous in the 

 mass) ; conidia arcuate, nucleate, continuous (as far as 

 seen), 40 to 60 x 2.^ to 3 /i. 



Allied to F. Scliwciiiifcii Ell. & Hark., but that has conidia 

 oblong, obtuse, 20 to 30 x 6 fi. 



On Oxvdendron arhoreum. Fayette, near Xuttallburg, 

 Z^Iarch, 1896 (Xutfall, 827). 

 F. roseu:m Link. 



On follicles of Asclcpias Syriaca, 'Slay 31, 1894. Conidia 

 55 X 4 /i + 6-septate (XiiftaH, 1530, 503). 



F. ROSEUM A'ar. nov ? 



On dead fruit of Diospyros J'irgiititvta, Aug., 1895 (Xntt- 

 all, 1831, 721). 

 F. SoLAXi !Mart. 



Found associated with "black rot" on Tomato fruits that 

 have fallen to the ground. Monongalia Co., at Alorgantown, 

 1 89 1 ( Millspaugh ) . 



F. • sp. 



On stems of Asparagus ofUcinaU-s, Oct. 28. 1893. Color, 

 light-pink, Conidia oblong to obovate j.'^ to 10 x 2.5 fi 

 (Xuttall. 1239, 1248, 185). 



