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3. Ramularia Solani n. sp. (Figs. 1a and 51) 



Conidia from nearly cylindrical to slightly curved, with both ends 

 rounded or with basal cell slightly papillate, mostly 1- and 2-septate; 

 1-septate measuring 29.5x6.5 (28-30 x 6.2-6.7) n, and 2-septate meas- 

 uring 32x6.4 (26-33.7 x 6.3-6.8) /i; plectenchyma flat, usually chocolate 

 brown; aerial mycelium from 2 to 4 millimeters high, from medium dense 

 to medium loose, from chamois to deep olive-buff, on potato agar rich in 

 glucose, often with a chocolate-drab tinge; substratum, on the same 

 medium, in zones of from sepia to tawny olive, and in old cultures to 

 Saccardo's amber; conidia in mass from nearly white to deep olive-buff; 

 no chlamydospores observed. 



Hab. On rotted tubers of Solanum tuberosum, New York. 



Fig. 51. — Ramularia Solani. a, Sporodochial conidia from 1 2-day s-old culture on oats; 

 B and c, conidiophores from 34-days-old culture on hard lima-bean agar; D,'conidia from aerial 

 mycelium from 25 -days-old culture on slightly acidified hard potato agar; e, conidia from aerial 

 mycelium from 34-days-old culture on hard lima-bean agar; f, sporodochial conidia from 8- 

 day s-old culture on hard lima-bean agar; a, sporodochial conidia from 55-days-old red rasp- 

 berry cane plug; h, sporodochial conidia from 67 -days-old flask culture on hard potato agar 

 with 2 per cent glucose 



Latin description. — Conidiis ferme cylindricis vel parum curvatis, 

 ut risque finibus rotundatis vel cella infima parum papillata, plerumque 

 1-2-septatis; conidiis 1-septatis, 29.5x6.5 (28-30x6.2-6.7)//, vel 2-sep- 

 tatis, 32x6.4 (26-33.7 x 6.3-6. 8)//; plectenchymate piano, plerumque 

 "chocolate brown" (R); aerio mycelio 2-4 mm. alt., e mediocriter denso 

 mediocriter laxo, e "chamois" (R) "olive-buff" (R), saepe in agare So- 

 lani tuberosi perglucoso "chocolate-drab" (R) tincto; substrato, eodem in 

 agare, e "sepia" (R) "tawny olive" (R) in zonis, vel in culturis maturis 



