1885.] 



NEW LITERATURE. 



71 



ISTEW LITERATURE. 



BY W. A. KBLLERMAN. 



Harkness, H. W. 'Tungi of the Paciffc Coast;" in Bulletin of the 

 California Academy of Sciences, Feb. 1885. 



Of the long list of species the following are described as new : 

 Polyplocium Californicum, Hk.; Lycoperdon sculptum, Hk.; Septogleum 

 defolians, Hk., on Quercus Kelloggii; Sorosporium Californicum, Hk., 

 in heads of Grindelia; Dicranidion fragile, Hk., on decaying ISTerium 

 Oleander; Chalara setosa, Hk., on dead leaves of Quercus densiflora; 

 Cercospora glomerata, Hk., on living leaves of Garrya elliptica; Tetra- 

 ploa scabra, Ilk., on Scirpus ; Plowrightia phyllogona, Hk., on leaves of 

 Amelanchier alnifolia ; and Geopora Cooperi, Hk. Two new genera are 

 diagnosed as follows : 



DICRANIDION^", Hk. {Ety m. Dikranos, a fork.)— Acervuli pale, sca- 

 tered. Spores hyaline, septate, shaped like a tuning-fork, attached by 

 the closed extremity to short branching hyphse. 



D. FRAGILE, Hk. — Acervuli, rosy- white, minute, scattered; spores 

 hyaline, 4-septate, shaped like a tuning-fork, attached by the closed 

 extremity, easily separating, each arm dividing near the centre and near 

 the base, forming one rounded and four oblong segments; length of 

 spore 12—16 ; width of arm 4—5 /^-. On decaying Nereum Oleander, Feb. 

 Cal. In appearance much like Fasarium. 



GEOPORA, Hk. (Etym. Ge, the earth, and opora, Autumn fruits.) 

 Subterranean. Integument woolly, continuous with the trama. Hymen- 

 iuin convolute. Asci cylindrical. Sporidia hyaline, oblong, smooth. 



G. Cooperi, Hk.— Irregularly globular, 2—4 cm. in diameter, covered 

 with dense brown wool, which is continued inwards on the trama ; 

 absorbing base none ; hymenium white, not closely packed ; asci cylin- 

 drical, 8-spored, 220 x 26 M ; sporidia hyaline, oblong, smooth, with a 

 large, shining excentric, nucleus, 28 x 20 P-. Belonging to the Tuberacei, 

 allied to Hydnotrya, but sporidia oblong and smooth. 

 Kellermai^, W. a.— "A Partial List of the Kansas Parasitic Fungi, 

 together with their Host-plants ;" presented to the Kansas Academy 

 of Science, ^oy. 25, 1884, and reprinted in Bull. Wash. Coll. Labor- 

 atory of Nat. Hist., p. 72. 



The species were collected in 1883 and 1884, numbering about one 

 hundred and eighty. No descriptions are given (except of Septoria Kel- 

 lermaniana, Thuem. n. s. Sporis bacillaribus, rectis, tenuissimus, sim- 

 plicibus, vel vix visible septatus, 60—80 x 1.5 !^.) A list of the host 

 plants is given, arranged alphabetically. The genera most numerously 

 represented are Puccinia with nineteen species, Septoria with nineteen , 

 Phyllosticta with thirteen, Cercospora with thirty- three, and Ramularia 

 with eight species. Puccinia Malvacearum, Mont., is here reported from 

 the Arkansas Valley, as occurring on Malvastrum coccineum. Accord- 

 ing to Mr. Arthur (see p. 27) it had not been reported in the United States. 



