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Vor, IV, No. fi. 
Cercospora Scutellariae, E. & E.—On leaves of Scutellaria ver¬ 
sicolor, Nutt., Concordia,Mo., October, 1886. Rev. C. II. Demetrio. Am- 
pliigenous ; spots angular, limited by the veinlets (2—4 mm.), brown 
below, darker above where the leaf is tinged with purple and yellow; 
hyphffl forming small compact tufts, continuous, brown, simple, straight, 
80—40 x 3 P ; conidia slender, 70—90 x 3 p, multinucleate and with sev¬ 
eral indistinct septa. 
Monilia penicellata, E. & E.—On rotten wood, Newfield, N. J. 
Sent also from Louisiana by Rev. A.B. Langlois (No.782) and from the Ad¬ 
irondack Mts. by Dr. G. A. Rex. Effused or siibccespitose, orange red ; 
sterile liyphse prostrate, hyaline, overrunning the matrix like the threads 
of a spider’s web and scarcely visible unless considerably magnified; 
fertile liyphse erect, stout, simple or branching from the base, 100—200 x 
25—40 p, filled with orange-colored granular matter, not septate, bearing 
at their obtuse and slightly swollen tips recurved and more or less branch¬ 
ing chains of orange-colored, large (25—60 x 20—40 p) conidia of an 
acutely-elliptical shape when dry but with the ends obtuse when moist 
and then readily separating from each other and from the stipe-like base. 
Often the conidia arise directly from small gangliform thickenings of the 
prostrate threads and in this case are hardly concatenate or at least in 
series of only 2 or 3. This differs from the usual type of Moniha in its 
penicillate mode of growth. 
Zygodesmus membranaceus, E. & E.—On rotten wood, Ottawa, 
Canada. Dr. John Macoun. Light yellowish-white, the color becoming 
finally a little deeper ; hyplise pale, branching at a right angle or nearly 
so, 3—5 p in diameter, with the zygodesmoid joints very distinct, com¬ 
pacted into a loose membrane; spores abundant, subglobose, 3 p- in diam¬ 
eter or subelliptical, 3 x 34 p, smooth and nearly hyaline. This species 
approaches Corticium in its submembranous character. It lias much the 
same general appearance as Corticium echinosporum , Ell. (N. A. F., No. 
608), but that has larger rough spores. It is not Z. Icevisporus, Ck., for 
that has spores 10 p in diameter and is really a Rhinotrichum closely allied 
to R. Cartisii , Berk., as near as we can judge from the specimens in Rav. 
F. Am. The same thing has been found in Florida by Mr. Calkins, No. 
821. In old specimens the conidia adhere to each other so as to resemble 
one large rough spore, but placed in water they soon separate. 
Vermicularia velutina, E. & E.— On decaying herbaceous stems, 
St. Martinsville, La., January, 1888. Rev. A. B. Langlois, No. 1113. 
Densely gregarious ; peritliecia membranaceous, erumpent, depressed- 
hemispheric, 70—80 p in diameter, thickly beset with straight, erect, slaty- 
black hairs 50—100 x 3—4 p\ sporules slightly arcuate, nearly hyaline, 
nucleolate, 18—22 x 3—31 p, ends subacute. Recognized by its soft erect 
hairs, which give the stem a velvety appearance. 
Stictis parasitica, E. & E — On old Diatri/pe tremellophora , Now- 
field, N. J., October, 1887. Erumpent, minute (one-sixth mm. in diam.), 
margin dirty white, fimbriate-dentate, expanding tardily ; asci clavate- 
