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In our specimens only a few of the ovaries of a panicle are 

 affected. These swell to an unusual size. They are green or 

 greenish externally, and are filled with a mass of olive-brown 

 spores collected in glomerules varying much in size and shape. 



Ovularia decipiens Sacc. 

 Living or languishing leaves of buttercups, Ranunculus acris. 

 Alcove. June and October. Shear, 



Cylindrosporium Padi Karst. 



Living leaves of cultivated plum, Prunus domestica. Helder- 

 berg mountains. September. 



Some mycologists appear to have confused Septoria cerasina 

 Peck, with this species, but the two are clearly distinct and may 

 easily be separated at a glance. In S. cerasina the spores ooze 

 out in a gelatinous mass or in tendrils ; in this species they form 

 a white flocculent mass on the surface of the matrix as do other 

 species of this genus. 



Cladosporium carpophilum Thum. 

 On peaches. Menands. August and September. The fungus 

 forms small olive-green spots on the fruit. Sometimes these 

 spots become confluent and form patches. They are often more 

 numerous on one side of the peach than on the other, and the 

 affected side fails to develop as rapidly as the other, giving the 

 fruit a flattened or deformed appearance, and the flesh beneath 

 the fungus is more tough and less succulent than the unaffected 

 part. The fungus is, therefore, to be classed among the injurious 

 species. 



Dendryphium nodulosum Sacc. 



Dead stems of bleeding heart, Dicentra spectabilis. Menands. 

 April. 



The fungus bears some resemblance to Ilelminthosporium 

 inter seminatum, but is separable even by the naked eye, by 

 reason of its more ferruginous color. 



Coniothecium Rubi n. sp 

 Thinly effused, olive-green ; spores coalescing in glomerules 

 varying much in size and in the number of component spores or 

 cells, separate spores .0006 to .0007 in. broad, glomerules about 

 .0016 in. broad. 



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