1884.] Botany. 189 
The above described species were collected at Green Cove 
Springs, Florida, during the winter of 1882-3, by Dr. Martin. 
To these may be added the following species collected at various 
places : 
Phyllosticta fraxini E, & M.—Spots: light brown with a dark 
purple border, 14-1™ in diam., perithecia epiphyllous, scattered, ` 
lentiform, black, (1502); spores oblong, or oblong-elliptical, 
hyaline, 1-2 nucleate, 7-9 X 214-3». On leaves of Fraxinus, 
Del. Co. Pa. Dr. Martin; and Bethlehem, Pa., E. A. Rau. 
„Phyllosticta catalpe E. & M.—Spots pale brown, circular, 5—7™™" 
diam., border darker ; perithecia few scattered, often sterile, brown, 
lenticular, innate, epiphyllous, 112 x 84; spores subhyaline, 
oval, 5-7 x 214-44. On leaves of Catalpa bignonioides, West 
Chester, Pa., August, 188 : 
Ramularia orontii, E. & M.—Spots large, pale brown, border 
darker ; hyphz epiphyllous, hyaline, 30 x 3, apices mostly bifid ; 
conidia hyaline, numerous, oblong, with the ends rather acute, 
uniseptate, 18 X 4u. On leaves of Orontium. Newfield, N. J. 
Ramularia andromede E. & M.—Hypophyllous, forming dull 
white orbicular patches about 1° diam., with a red-brown spot of 
same extent on the opposite side of the leaf; hyphz, simple or 
branched, continuous, 30-40 X 3; conidia oblong or cylindrical, 
10-20 x 114-24, continuous or uniseptate. On leaves of 4. 
racemosa. Newfield, N J 
Cercospora perse@, E. & M.—On reddish-brown irregular-shaped 
Spots 7—jm diameter, with a dark but not raised border ; hyphe 
“piphylious, densely czspitose, brown, faintly septate, bent and 
Seniculate above, apices subdenticulate, 55 x 4#. Conidia slender 
vate, 3-4 septate, 100 x 3u. On leaves of Persea palustris. 
hcg a heuchere E. & M.—Spots brown, mostly round 
sl i ), border obsolete ; hyphæ fasciculate, flexuous, light brown, 
eona hypophyllous, 30 x 3-4%4z; conidia subhyaline (light 
H, color), cylindric-clavate, septate, 60-75 x 3. On leaves of 
w 
tuchera americana. Chester Co, Fa 
i oacrosporium Martindalei E. & M.—Hypophyllous on pale 
Hyph Spots, 35-34% diam. on living leaves of Magnolia glauca. 
we €rumpent, czespitose, geniculate, multiseptate, 50-80 X5 ; 
teen 35-50 X 18-22%, about 3-septate at first, becoming muri- 
hyphae d dark brown; pedicels 20-50 long, often wanting. The 
gi ba® form tufts nearly black, arranged in a circle about 3™™ In 
the leaf Occasionally the fungus appears on the upper side of 
wi aw The spots on the upper side of the leaf are much darker 
| “the center, € distinct border and show a dark discolored speck in 
7: an inch > In which a gre ryo small sanes larva — y 3 
- insect, whic aPParently hatched from an egg deposited by som 
ge Which thus causes the dead spot in oe leaf on which the 
