NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI 



All color-terms used below conform to the charts and syn- 

 onymic lists in Saccardo's Chromotaxia. 



SPOKODESMIACEAE 



Septonema isthmium Pound and Clements. 



Caespituli thin, broadly effused, very dark; sporophore 

 obsolete; chains of conidia simple, 90-150 i^ long, very 

 often with a hyaline, simple or 1-2-septate terminal 

 conidium, conidia sooty brown, clavate-cylindrical, 

 straight, or rarely slightly curved, 3-7-septate, con- 

 stricted at the partitions, connected by a short, nar- 

 row isthmus 3-4 p- wide, cells with a single large 

 gutta, 35-70x10 /x. 



On dead twigs of Smilax hispida, Wabash. (4597) 



EXCIPULACEAE 



Scaphidium Clements nov. gen. 



Apopycnidium oblong or linear-disciform, at length 

 hysterioid, waxy-membranaceous, dark brown ; basidia 

 simple; sporidia uniseptate, hyaline, fusoid. Cor- 

 responds to Sporonema in the Hi/alodidymae. 

 Scaphidium houtelouae Clements. 



Apopycnidia minute, grouped in lines, upon indistinct 

 brownish spots, innate-erumpent, dark brown, mem- 

 branaceous, or waxy-membranaceous, linear, hyster- 

 ioid, glabrous, 100 /* in diameter; basidia simple, 

 very short, hyaline, 10x2 ft ; sporidia hyaline, solitary, 

 uniseptate, sigmatoid, 25x3-4 h-. 



On leaves of Bouteloua hirsuta, Simeon. (12100) 



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