188 General Notes. [ February, 
all these forms were once included, has, as far as any generic sig- 
nificance is concerned, entirely disappeared, being retained only 
to designate the 420 species (enumerated on pp. 367-543, Sil 
vol. 2) whose fructification is unknown. Whether this new classi- 
fication, founded principally on the color and septation of the 
sporidia, will finally be accepted, remains to be seen. By tie 
mycologists of coftinental Europe it is already adopted, while the 
English mycologists, under the leadership of Dr. Cooke, are rais- 
ing some objections which are worthy of consideration. 
The old classification of the Sphzriacee has already been 
essentially modified and is destined yet to undergo still a 
changes. The only question seems to be concerning the mim 
and extent of these changes. 
In making innovations on any old and well established syste™ 
the tendency is always to extremes, and the new definitions 
proposed are finally accepted, rejected or modified in accor | 
with the conclusions deduced from more mature deliberation, 
this no doubt will be the case with the new carpological T 
so ably advocated and finely illustrated by the learned editor 
the Sylloge. 
The objections urged against this system are, in bie 
forms evidently closely allied are widely separated. For ee 
the old genus Melanconis is limited to the species with un! ae 
hyaline sporidia and stands in the sect. Hyalodidym@, a geek 
species with uniseptate brown sporidia constitute the genus prown ) 
coniella in the sect. Pheodidyma, and the species with a 
sporidia having three or more septa are placed in the sine al 
dovalsa in the sect. Pheophragmiz, the mode of growtl ‘not 
these three forms being essentially the same, t. e., perit i be 
or less distinctly circinate in a definite stroma. It CaM ier 
denied that the carpological system of classification has je th | 
not to be disregarded or hastily rejected, and it is PFO" Mear 
with some modification it will yet be universally adopted. ology | 
while, whatever may be the final conclusion, students of mye ee : 
everywhere will be glad that with the two volumes of ne 
and the “ Genera Pyrenomycetum ” they may now witb fungi 
certainty determine the various species of Sphæriaceo oo. : 
within their reach—/. B. Ellis, Newfieid, N. J., Dee 7 i 
New Froripa Funat, II.—Zsariopsis clavata, E. & es 2 
dles of fertile hyphae about 5"™ high and 30-40. thick, Cr ort 
of loosely compacted threads divergent and subundulat® tt : 
and bearing at their tips single oblong-fusiform brow? be 
conidia, 18-22 x 5-6 p. Many of the component Se; ing cot 
minate in free, divergent ends, these free ends also woe’ forming = 
dia. There is also a prostrate hypha, like that of Melio “On livit 
orbicular patches from which the upright hyphæ anse 
leaves of Persea palustris. - 
