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The following is a complete diagnosis of the fungus, also its synonymy 
and known distribution. 
meer sacchari, Mass., Ann. Bot., vol. vii, p. 515, pl. xxvii. 
ungus  ascophorus. Peritheciis ovatis obtusis nigris, setulis 
miren ud septatis acuminatis rigidis brunneis sursum pallidioribus 
undique vestitis, ascis cylindraceis apice rotundatis stipitatis octosporis, 
sporis oblique monostichis elliptico- oblig hyalinis 8—9 x 4x. 
Fungus stylosporiferus (Melanconium stage). ^ Acervulis nigris 
gregariis epidermide cinctis, conidiis cylindraceis utrinque obtusis 
runneis continuis vel subinde pacano c Satie 14—-15 x 3°5—4y in 
cirros gelatinosos varios nigros exsilientib 
Strumella Sacchari, Cooke, Grevillea, xix., p. 45 (1890) ; Cobb, 
Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, vol. iv., pt. 10, p 
figs. 17-19, 
Trullula sacchari, Ellis and Everhart, Journ. Inst. of Jamaica, 
vol. i, p. 159 (1892). 
Fungus macroconidiophorus.  Maculas —— cec eil irre- 
sulares efformans, conidiis in interiore hypharum nulatim formatis 
et dein exsilientibus ellipsoideis utrinque haii aiei brunneis 
18—20 x 12px. 
Fungu a a a piora. Statui macroconidiophoro similis 
conidiis 10—11 x 64. 
Hab. In culmis Sacchari officinarum 
Distr. India, Borneo, Mauritius, Queensland, New South Wales, West 
Indies 
Evidence has now come to hand which points to the existence of the 
same disease in Jav: 
r. Went has just described in the Mededeelingen van het Proe fstation 
West Java, 1893, what he considers to be a new sugar-cane disease, 
caused by a fungus, to which he has pra the name Thielaviopsis 
ethaceticus. When developing in a solution of sugar-cane sap, this 
ungus possesses the property of E alschotis itin The 
same, or a closely allied form, has previously been observed to cause a 
similar fermentation in pine-apple sap, hence the adir calls the present 
disease, “ pine-apple disease of the sugar-cane.’ 
Judging from the description and figures, I appears to be 
identical with the macro- and microconidial state of T'richospheria 
sacchari; curiously enough the author has iopied the above terms to 
the two conditions of his fungus, and apparently considers it as a s 
only of some higher development, as he queries the constant absence of 
an ascigerous stage. 
CCCLXIV,—SEMINAL VARIATION IN THE 
SUGAR-CANE 
The Kew Bulletin for 1891 {PP 10-24) contained a discussion of 
the interesting discovery made at the Botanical Station (Dodd's Re- 
formatory), Barbados, of the sites of fertile seed by the ipiis 
