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fore, to assume that additional collections of material would 

 furnish conditions intermediate between these species. Though 

 admittedly closely related, they must be regarded as sharply 

 demarcated and distinct. In the introduction to this paper an 

 attempt is made to show how they have arisen from a common 

 ancestor. 



Material Examined 



Brazil: Herb. H. Rehm, No. 1881, Stockholm, Sweden (two 

 packets of material collected by Ule, April, 1892) ; Fitz- 

 patrick Herb. No. 1192 (material found in phanerogamic 

 herbarium at N. Y. Bot. Gard. on leaf of Podocarpus Seh 

 lowii collected by Sellow and communicated to Herb. 

 Columbia College, New York). 



Chili: Rehm, Ascomyceten No. 1326b (two specimens in Bot. 

 Dept. Herb, at Harvard Univ., one seen, both alike acc. Far- 

 low ; the specimen in Herb. C. E. Fairman, Lyndonville, N. 

 Y., is C. tropica). 



Columbia: Fitzpatrick Herb. No. 1484 (material found in 

 phanerogamic herbarium at Harvard Univ. by A. J. Eames 

 on leaves of Podocarpus sp. collected by Purdie). 



Bolivia: Fitzpatrick Herb. No. 1577 (material communicated 

 by L. Romell, of Riksmuseets Vetenskapsakademien, Stock- 

 holm, Sweden, from Herb. Robt. Fries No. 301 on Podo- 

 carpus angustifolid ; part of the type material on which Star- 

 back founded C oredphila). 



Costa Rica: U. S. D. A. Bur. PI. Ind. Herb, (material found 

 in phanerogamic herbarium of U. S. National Museum by 

 Miss Vera K. Charles on leaves of P. macrostachys No. 

 940952, collected at Volcan Poas, San Jose, by O. L. Jamenez). 



7. Corynelia brasiliensis sp. nov. 

 Type : Material in herbarium of Elam Bartholomew at Stock- 

 ton, Kansas, collected by F. Noack in the province of Sao 

 Paulo, San Francisco dos Campos, Brazil, Dec. 1896, com- 

 municated by P. Sydow under the name Corynelia oreophila 

 (Speg.) Starb. Slides showing asci and spores deposited 

 in Fitzpatrick herbarium as No. 1630. 



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