1885.] 



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H. RHomA, Ell. & SiieG.—Gloeosporium (.?) rhoinum, Sacc. Fungi 

 Ital., tab. 1036, Spots liYpophyllous, subcircular, fading out with a 

 darker margin. Acervuli innate-emergent, pulvinate, nearly amber 

 color. Conidia suballantoid, somewhat curved, 10—12 x 3 Basidia 

 copiously once or twice branched, 56—60 fj- long, branches sometimes ver- 

 ticillate, bacillary, hyaline or yellowish in the mass. In the lower sur- 

 face of the leaves of B/ius copaUina, Newfield, N. J., August and Sep- 

 tember, 1883. 



ELLISIELLA, Sacc, n. g., Mich. II, p. 26.— Hyphre steriles erectifi, 

 simplices, fuscse. Conidia fousoid, with a long, curved beak above. 



E. CAUDATA, Sacc, Mich. II, p. 147.— Tufts erumpent, oblong or 

 sublinear, black, minute, i — i mm. long, i mm. wide. Sterile hyphas 

 erect, cuspidate, rather rigid, continuous, or often distinctly septate, 

 100—180 X 7 /-i, dark-fuliginous, subbulbose at base. Basidia at the base 

 of the hvphse, subpyriform, subobtuse at the apex, 2— 3-spored, 15—20 x 

 6 fJ-, very pale olivaceous. Conidia f usoid, slightly curved, 28 x 5—6 

 hyaline or yellowish, nucleate, attenuated below into a slender, curved 

 base or pedicel, 25—30 x 1 



We agree with the opinion expressed by Prof, Peck, in the 35th Eep. 

 J^^". Y. State Mus., p. 189, that this genus is not siifficiently distinct from 

 ColletoincMm. 



NEW LITEKATURE. 



BT W. A. KHLLEElXAjr. 



Saccardo & Berlese.—" Miscellanea My cologica," 



[Continued from page 95.] 

 SCOBIOMYCES, Ell. & Sacc, nov. gen. 

 Sporodochium amorphous, somewhat waxy, bright colored, arising 

 from the apices of rhizamorphoid fibres, forming a dense net in each sub- 

 hexagonal area of which are produced the subglobose spores, hyphae 

 or basidia seen. An anomalous genus of doubtful affinity, 



ScoRiOMYCES Cragini, Ell. & Sacc 



Fibres rhizamorphoid, amber- colored, bearing at their extremities 

 orange colored masses of irregular shape, subcontinuous or interrupted 

 and cavernous, bearing some resemblance to a mass of broken down 

 honey comb or ''bee bread," the amorphous masses attached to each 

 other in a subreticulate manner, and bearing the subglobose or subangu- 

 lar, orange-yellow, grumous spores, 16—20 z^- in diameter. 



On rotten wood of Bhtis vemnata, under the bark, and in the earth 

 and among decaying roots around old stumps, J^ewfield, J. Sent also 

 from Kansas by Prof. F. W. Cragin (no. 148.) Probably not autonomous 



