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cracks or openings in the bark made by some Cytispora or abortive Valsa. 
Hyphse erect, septate, brown, equal, 100—120 x 3—4 conidia subellip¬ 
tical (terminal [V]), subhyaline at first, then brown and mostly 3-septate 
but scarcely constricted at the septa, subacute at each end with a short 
persistent pedicel at base, 30—40 x 10—14 p. 
Alternaria lancipes, E. & E.—On living leaves of Argemone 
platyceras , Manhattan, Kansas, August, 1887. W. T. Swingle, 957. Hy- 
pophyllous, subolivaceo-velutinous, on round, black, concentrically 
wrinkled subindefinite spots 2—5 mm. in diameter; hyphse short, erect, 
subfasciculate, pale olivaceous, soon becoming swollen in a nodulose 
manner above from the incipient conidia which are at first concatenate 
but soon deciduous, mostly 3-septate and strongly constricted at the 
septa, the lower cell narrowed to an acute point, the upper rounded and 
obtuse and at length one or more of the upper cells divided by a longitu¬ 
dinal septum. This seems to be well characterized by the wedge-like or 
lance-pointed base of the conidia. Gloeosporium Argemonis , E. & E., 
occurs on some of the spots. 
Botrytjs griseo-eilacina, E. & E.—On bark of dead oak trunks, 
Concordia, Mo., October, 1887. Rev. C. H. Demetrio. Prostrate sterile 
hyphse brown, intricate, branched, coarse (3—4 p in diameter), forming 
continuous grayish-lilac patches 1—2 cm. across, with a whitish, definite, 
minutely subfimbriate margin, fertile erect hyphm pale, simple or spar¬ 
ingly branched and often subundulate above, forming subpulvinate tufts 
and bearing the subhyaline elliptical conidia (5—9 x 3—4 p) at their tips. 
Apparently allied to B. lilacinct, Schw. 
Eusartum hydnicoeum, E. & E.—Parasitic on Hydnum membrana- 
ceum. Bull., growing on bark of dead oak, Concordia, Mo., October, 1887. 
Rev. C. H. Demetrio. Enveloping the teeth of the hydnum in a thin 
white mycelium ; conidia minute, subglobose, 2—21 P’■ or elliptical, 2-nu- 
cleate, 3—5 x 2—21 P. Belongs in Saccardo’s Sect. Leptosporium. 
Eusarium barbatum, E. & E.—On Usuea barbata , Newfieid, N. J., 
January, 1888. Sporodochia applanate, subconfluent, cinereous at first, 
then orange; hyphse erect, simple, hyaline, continuous or faintly sep¬ 
tate, attenuated above, 20—25 x 21 p at the base, bearing at their tips the 
pyriform, hyaline, continuous, 4—6 x 2—21 P conidia. Belongs in Sect. 
Leptosporium , Sacc. 
Stagonospora septorioides, E. & E.—On dead leaves of Quercus 
wibricaria, Starkville, Miss., November, 1887. S. M. Tracy. Perithecia 
innate-erumpent, small, hypophyllous; sporules cylindrical, subhyaline, 
3—9 septate, 15—25x4 P, oozing out and staining the leaf around the 
perithecia. 
Melasmia GLEDiTScniiE, E. & E.—On living leaves of Gleditscliia 
triacanthos, Concordia, Mo., October, 1887. Rev. C. II. Demetrio. Peri- 
