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SOME EXOTIC FUNGI. 
plant is carbonaceous. The conidia are produced at the free ends 
of the fertile tips. 
Plate 172, Fig. A. a , stroma, natural size; b, a fertile tip magnified; 
c, section of same; d, ascns and sporidia X 400; e, sporidia X 400;/, 
conidia X 400. 
Dimerosporium insignis, Cooke. 
Peritheciis gregariis, superficialibus, minutis, atris ; subiculo 
conidiophoro in maculas orbicularas effuso, hyphis simplicibus fur- 
catisve, erectis, gracilis, atrofuscis, conidiis ellipticis, minutis, 
hyalinis (3x2 /x), ascis octosporis, lanceolatis, sessilibus, sporidiis 
arcte ellipticis, continuis, hyalinis (12 X 4 /x). 
On leaves of Eurya Japonica. Ternate. 
Dermatea pallidula, CooTce. 
Erumpens, cupulis convexis, subcaespitosis (2-4), testaceo-carneis, 
demum pallescentibus (1-2 mm. lat.), deorsum in stipite brevi 
communi attenuatis ; margine obsoleto ; ascis clavatis, octosporis ; 
sporidiis ellipsoideo-lanceolatis, utrinque obtusis, triseptatis, hya- 
linis (25 X 9 /x), paraphysibus sursum incrassatis, brunneis. 
On branches of Rhus venenata. New Jersey, U.S. ( J . B. Ellis). 
This and Dermatea crypta , Cooke, are supposed to have been 
described many years ago, but reference to them cannot now be 
found. 
Dermatea crypta, CooTce. 
Erumpens, pallide umbrina, glaucescens, cupulis solitariis vel 
(2-3) csespitosis, deorsum attenuatis, connatis, hymenio plano vel 
subconcavo (J mm. diam.). Ascis breviter clavatis. Sporidiis 
lanceolato-ellipticis, triseptatis, fuscis (30 x 10 /x) paraphysibus 
sursum incrassatis, fuscis. 
On branches of Andromeda, Azalea, &c. New Jersey, U.S. 
(J.B. Ellis). 
Uredo cussoni», CooTce. 
Hypophylla. Soris minutis, haemisphericis, demum fissuratis, 
pallide fuscis. Uredosporis ellipticis, spinulosis, subhyalinis, demum 
fuscis (25 X 18 /x). 
On leaves of Cussonia. Inanda, Natal ( Wood 3494). 
Uredo compositarum, var. melantherse, CooTce. 
Uredosporis subglobosis, asperulis, fuscis (18 /x diam.). 
On leaves of Melanthera Brownii. Durban, Natal (TFoo<Z3850). 
Coniothyrium Indicum. CTce. # Mass. 
Peritheciis gregariis, globosis, erumpentibus, primo tectis, dein 
subsuperficialibus, atris, opacis (J-| mm. diam.). Sporulis glo- 
bosis, atro fuscis, demum opacis (8 /x diam.). 
On twigs of Salix. Hindu Koosh at an elevation of 11,500 
feet. (Gilgit Expedition.) 
Fericonia opaca, CooTce. 
Atra, gregaria, hyphis erectis (3-4), septatis, simplicibus, atro- 
fuscis, opacis, capitulo subgloboso (5-6), conidiarum composito, 
