NOTES ON NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI FROM 
VARIOUS LOCALITIES 
Charles E. Fairman 
I. Pestalotia truncata septoriana var. nov. 
Supposed to be the foliicolous form of a fungus generally found 
on wood {Fagus, Corda), branches {Populus fastigiata, Leveille) 
or on stems {Rubus, as var. Rubi Karst. Regarding the spelling 
of the generic name it may be noted that the genus was published 
by DeXotaris" as Pestalotia. I do not know who first varied the 
spelling nor for what reason the change was made. I suggested 
to Dr. Barnhart, librarian of the New York Botanical Garden, 
that it might have been for euphony but he gave it as his opinion, 
in a verbal communication, that Pestalotia was equally euphonious 
and to be preferred. Taking up the matter with Prof. Henry F. 
Burton, of the department of Latin in Rochester University, 
I obtained the following information; “ Pestalotius is undoubt- 
edly the correct Latin form for Pestalozzi. Classical Latin has 
no ‘ z ’ sound or ‘ z ’ character except in a few words borrowed 
from the Greek. The Italian ‘ z ’ or ‘ zz ’ often stands for 
Latin ‘ t ’ or ‘ ti.’ For example in Palazzo (palatium), Arezzo 
(Arretium), Firenze (Florentia), Venezia (Venetia).” 
Spots circular, 1-4 mm. in diam., or irregular and i-io mm. in 
length, light-brown, surrounded by a narrow brown line, becoming 
paler and deciduous with age ; acervuli epiphyllous, minute, punc- 
tiform, scattered and sparse, arranged like the pycnidia of some 
Septoria; spores oblong-clavate, 2-4 septate, as a rule not guttu- 
late, not much constricted, intermediate cells dark, end cells hya- 
line, the upper cell broad and rounded from which protrude 2-3 
cilia simple or branched, the lower cell more acute and ending in 
a filiform pedicel, 20-22 X 7-8 /x. 
On leaves of a small shrub probably belonging to the Rubiaceae, 
Pueblo Viejo, Mexico, June, 1911, Rev. H. Q. Morton. 
’ Hedwigia. 1896, p. 48. 
■ Micr. Ital. Dec. II, p. 80. 
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