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paraphyses abundant linear; sporidia 8, vermiform, yellowish 
faintly nucleate, acute at each end, 35-45 x 1%. The perithe 
cia are solitary, one in the center of each spot, but the spots 
often sterile. On leaves of Andromeda ferruginea. 
70 General Notes. 
selves. On leaves of //ex dahoon. 
Septoria serpentaria E. & M.—Spots chestnut-brown, becom 
darker, eroded, border obsolete, 1™™ diam. ; perithecia black, sut 
‘globose, innate-epiphyllous, 156 x 140y.; spores subhyaline, 
cylindrical curved, 82-108 x 4». On leaves of Quercus l 
olia. e 
Pestalozzia myrice E. & M.—Spots irregular, chestnut-browt - 
(5-10™™), acervuli innate-erumpent, epiphyllous, 75. diam ; spore 
oval, dark brown, biseptate, ends hyaline, 9-12y. long, crest 2 
parted; pedicels 12 X 2y., contracted below. On living leaves ® 
Myrica cerifera. 
Helminthosporium fumosum E. & M.—Hypophyllous in l 
olivaceous tufts which form a circular group 14—1°™ diam, sta 
ing on a prostrate pale brick-colored, branching mycelium, W 
forms a radiate-fimbriate margin around the whole; the $ 
hyphæ are pale brown, simple, septate, 75-80 X 6p., and | 
their tips a single obovate, brown, 3-septate spore, 25-30 X I 
On living leaves of Persea palustris — F. B. Ellis, Newfield, 
and Dr. Geo. Martin. 
Among the interesting plants described is a white-rayed | 
phium (S. a/biflorum) from Texas, closely related to the 0 
compass plant. In the thistles (now of the genus Cnicus 
merly Cirsium) the species C. discolor is hereafter to be the Vi 
discolor under C. altissimus. : 
“Of genuine Lactuca, or the Scariola section, we 
