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The structure is that of a compound Stilbum, each stem sur- 
mounted by a cluster of capituli which terminate short branches, 
and are composed entirely of minute gelatinous spores. 
Folycephalum aurantiacum, Kalch. & Cke. 
Totum aurantiacum. Stipite crasso, cylindrico, superne in 
ramulis brevibus diviso. Capitulis ellipticis, deciduis. Sporis 
hyalinis (’0025 x '0015 mm.). 
On rotten wood. No. 1353. 
The ramuli are scarcely more than papillae, each of which bears 
a capitulum. 
Fusaxium aloes, Kalch ^ Cke. 
Sparsum, carneum, gelatinosum. Hyphis brevibus. Sporis fusi- 
formibus, continuis, rectis vel lunatis, utrinque acuminatis, hyalinis, 
(•04-*05 X •0035-'004 mm.). 
On Aloe arhorescens. No. 1473. 
Microstxoma quercinum, Niessl. 
On oak leaves. 
Ramularia richardiee, Kalch. 
Effusa, farinosa, albida. Hyphis simplicibus vel furcatis, erectis. 
Sporis elongato-ellipticis vel subclavatis, hyalinis ( 05 x '015 mm.). 
On leaves of Richardia albomaculata. Nos. 1116, 493. 
Ramularia rumicis, Kalch. Sf Cke. 
Maculis fuscis, ellipticis, magnis. Hyphis subsimplicibus, erectis, 
fasciculatis. Sporis cylindricis, utrinque rotundatus ('022--03 X 
•005 mm.). 
On leaves of Rumex obtusifohus. No. 1180. 
Distinet from Peronospora obliqua, Cke., which is technically 
also a Ramularia. 
Oidium exysiphoides, Fr. 
On leaves of Verbena. No. 493. 
IHIystrosporium poly trichum, Cke. in RaveneVs N. Atner. Fungi. 
(^Alystrosporium velutinum, K 4' C.) 
Atrum, velutinum, effusum. Hyphis fasciculatis, erectis, simpli- 
cibus. Sporis clavatis, multicellulosis ('Ol-’Odb X '018 mm.) fuscis. 
On aloe. No. 500. 
Apparently not distinct from the common North American species. 
Mystrosporium aterrimum, B. & C. 
On Celastrus buxifolius. No. 1282. 
Macrosporium punctatum, Kalch, 8^ Cke. 
Effusum, griseum ; csespitulis sparsis, punctiformibus. Hyphis 
fasciculatis, erectis, simplicibus. Sporis clavatis, 3-5 septatis, 
fuligineis, hinc illic cellula unica longitudinal iter divisa (•035-'06 
X •0i-'015 mm.). 
On Allium scheenoprasum. No. E. 21. 
Epochnium phyllogenum, Kalch 4 Cke. 
Effusum, epiphyllum. Hyphis repentibus, hyalinis, ramosis ; 
ramulis assurgentibus, rectis ; sporis terminalibus, globoso-ovatis, 
cellulosis, fuligineis (’025 x *02 mm.). 
On living leaves. 
Natal, No. 39. 
