114 Mortier F. Barrus 



At various times other names have appeared in the synonymy of this 

 fungus. Richon (1889) gives the name Glaeosporium phaseoli n. sp. to a 

 fungus which he found on the pods and stems of beans at St. Amand, 

 France. His meager description fits this fungus very well, and it is not 

 improbable that he had before him the fungus causing bean anthracnose. 

 Saccardo (1892) lists Gloeosporium phaseoli Rich, and gives Richon's 

 description. Allescher (1903) also lists Richon's fungus and gives his 

 description, but says that it is an uncertain species perhaps identical 

 with G. lindemuthianum Sacc. & Magn. or with a Colletotrichum. 



Allescher (1903) designates as Gloeosporium lindemuthianum Sacc. & 

 Magn. forma folUcolum Allesch. the fungus he found on the upper surface 

 of subcircular, brownish spots on leaves of Phaseolus vulgaris var. nanus. 

 An examination made of type specimen No. 380 Allescher & Schnabl 

 (1894), in the herbarium of the Pathological Collection of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, showed spots somewhat larger and more 

 nearly circular than is usual for anthracnose but not sufficiently distinct 

 to warrant the placing of the fungus as a form of the species. The spores 

 are like those of Colletotrichum lindemuthianum. Allescher says the 

 form folUcolum is similar to the type except in the appearance of the spots 

 as described and in the absence of setae. 



Desmazieres (1843 a) describes as Septoria leguminum Nob. a fungus 

 on the pods of Phaseolus. He ascribes to variety "b" of the same 

 species a form on Pisum. Saccardo (1878) says he is not able to decide 

 whether or not Septoria leguminum Dsmz. should stand, as he cannot 

 distinguish the young condition from Gloeosporium lindemuthianum, but 

 the description varies widely from Septoria and approaches more nearly 

 that of G. fructigenum Berk. Berkeley (1881), speaking of dried 

 specimens distributed by Desmazieres under the name Septoria 

 leguminum, says the species shown is not a good representative of the 

 genus Septoria, but belongs rather to Gloeosporium and has been figured 

 by Saccardo in his Fungi Italici as Gloeosporium lindemuthianum. Cooke 

 (1881), on the basis of Berkeley's observations, cites Septoria leguminum 

 Desm. as synonymous with Gloeosporium lindemuthianum Sacc. Kirchner 

 (1906: 137) ascribes to it the small, dry, sharply differentiated brown spots 

 on beans, on which appear later very small black pimples. 



Specimens of bean pods distributed by Desmazieres (1843 b) as 

 Septoria leguminum, deposited in the cryptogamic herbarium of the New 



