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Differs from Hendersonia Rosae Kickx,® in smaller pycniclia, 
and in larger, more constricted spores, as compared with ^lyc. 
Germanica no. 420 on branches of Rosa villosa. Kickx, loc. cit. 
says “peritheces immerges, eparpilles autours des noeuds, soule- 
vant I’epiderme qui devient bulbeux, blanc, ou noirci, par trans- 
parence et qui se dechire longitudinalement pour livrer passage a 
I’ostiole.” 
6. Hendersonia coccolobina sp. nov. 
Leaf spots irregular, whitened; pycnidia minute, black, sit- 
uated just beneath the whitened epidermis which is easily de- 
tached and through which the minute ostiola protrude ; spores 
oblong-ellipsoid, subtruncate at apices, 2 to 4 septate not con- 
stricted, brown, 10-12 X 4-6 /*, on short, hyaline, subcylindj*ical 
basidia. 
On leaves of Coccoloba uvifera, Pueblo Viejo, IMexico, June, 
1911, Rev. H. Q. Morton. 
7. Phyllosticta Mortoni sp. nov. 
Spots srnall, 1-3 mm. in diam., circular, at first black and sur- 
rounded by indefinite red or purple discoloration of the leaf sur- 
face, then becoming whitish in the center, and in age with the dis- 
appearance of the purplish spots running into brown, discolored 
areas ; pycnidia black, sparse, covered then erumpent, amphi- 
genous, about 100 /a in diam.; spores oblong-ellipsoid, continuous, 
hyaline, 4.5-7 X 2.5-3 M- 
On leaves of Mango, Mangifera Indica, Pueblo Viejo, Vera 
Cruz, Mexico, June, 1911, Rev. H. Q. Morton p. 
8. Pyrenochaeta fraxinina sp. nov. 
Pycnidia 220-330 /a diam., immersed then erumpent, globose, 
centrally ostiolate, with the ostiola surrounded by continuous, 
acute-tipped setae which are 175-350 /u. long; spores basillar or al- 
lantoid, straight or curved, hyaline, granular, or at times minutely 
nucleolate, 7-10 X 0.5-1 /a; sporophores hyaline, rather long. 
On petioles of Fraxinus, Lyndonville, N. Y., October, 1910, 
C. E. Fairman. 
® Fl. Crypt. Flandr. i: 389, Sacc. Syll. 10: 318. 
