VALSA VITIS, AGAIN. 
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nor whether it is that of Saccardo’s Sylloge, No. 2812. Since the 
diagnosis of the latter is so amended that it is not that of either 
Schweinitz or Montagne, whilst if the latter is supposed to be in- 
cluded, then the Algerian locality is not cited. 
Under Eutypa viticola (Schw.), Saccardo, No. 669, quotes 
“ Schwein. Syn. Car. No. 64, and Mont. FI. Alg. p. 463, and Y. 
vitis Schw. sec Cooke Yalsei U.S. p. 113.” To this we object that 
the Sph. viticola of Schwein. Syn. Car. is not Eutypa, with hyaline 
allantoid sporidia, but, according to Schweinitz’s own specimens, 
brown uniseptate sporidia {=Valsaria) . And yet it may be the 
species of Montagne, who evidently confounded the Sphceria vitis 
of Schweinitz with his Sph. viticola. Probably the species in view 
is the Sphceria vitis of Schweinitz, and that of “ Cooke Valsei U.S.” 
p. 113. But on what authority is Schweinitz’s specific name of 
vitis changed to Montagne’s viticola, only to confuse it with the 
S. viticola of Schweinitz. 
The following is the Sphceria vitis (Schw.) : — 
“ Circinata, minor nigra, sphaerulis majusculis subtrinis coalitis 
librum elevantibus, ostiolis pulveraceis. 
“ Rarior in junioribus ramis Vitice in libro, ubi decorticati sunt. 
Tres vel quatuor sphaerulae majusculae sub cortice interiori seu libro 
nidulant, corticem bullosum reddunt et in pustulam coalescent. 
Ostiola irregularia, subpulveracea, nigra.” — Syn. Car. No. 117. 
Syn. Amer. Boi\ No. 1362. 
This is the Valsa vitis, Berk, and Curt. p. 171, under 869*, 
which is entered twice in the North American Fungi as Diatrype 
vitis under 855*, and as Valsa vitis , both of which refer to Sphceria 
vitis (Schwein.), and to no other, and should stand as — 
Valsa (Eutypella) vitis (Schwein.'), probably Eutypa viticola, Sacc. 
Syll. No. 669, not the Valsa vitis (Schw. P) Sacc. Sy 11. No. 449. 
There are two species represented by specimens from Schweinitz, 
and none other. One is Diatrype ( Valsaria ) viticola, with unisep- 
tate brownish sporidia ; the other is Valsa ( Eutypella ) vitis, with 
most distinctly sulcate ostiola, called by Schweinitz “ irregularia, 
subpulveracea.” 
Valsa vitis (Schw.), Saccardo No. 449, is not the species of 
Schweinitz at all, as we have already pointed out, but Valsa vitigera 
(Cooke), and we challenge Professor Saccardo to produce his 
evidence that this species was ever known to Schweinitz at all. It 
does not exist in any collection of American Fungi which we have 
ever examined. It is not to be found amongst specimens from 
Schweinitz in the Kew Herbarium or the Berkeley Herbarium, or 
in specimens communicated by Dr. Curtis as the Sphceria vitis of 
Schweinitz, and we feel fully entitled to call for the direct evidence 
that the Valsa vitis of Saccardo is in any part the Valsa vitis of 
Schweinitz, even if found in the North American Continent at all. 
Diatrype (Valsaria) viticola, Schw. Sphaeria viticola, Schwein. Syn. 
Car. p. 8, No. 64. Schwein. Amer. Bor. No. 1290. Diatrype viticola, Berk, 
dc Curt. Amer. Fungi , No. 854*. Hei'b. Berk, No. 8781. Valsaria viticola, 
Sacc. Syll. No. 2812. 
