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Phyllosticta fagicola, Ell. & Morgan.—On leaves of Fagusferni- 
ginea. Ohio, Morgan. Spots amphigenous, orbicular, one cm. in diam¬ 
eter, dull white, with a narrow (one millim.) red border; perithecia black, 
scattered, prominent, mostly epiphyllous; sporules narrow, elliptical, 
with a pale yellowish tint, 10—13 x 3—4 p. The best-developed perithecia 
were on the nerves of the leaf and hypophyllous. 
Phyllosticta orbicularis, E. & E.—On leaves of Cucurbita pepn. 
Faulkland, Del., September, 18S7. Only a single specimen seen. Spots 
orbicular, large (three cm.), cinereous-brown, with a narrow, darker mar¬ 
gin, around which the leaf is shaded yellow; perithecia mostly epiphyl¬ 
lous, prominent, about 100 !>■ in diameter, broadly pierced above; sporules 
rather acutely-elliptical, hyaline, 5—6 x 2—24 p. P. Cucurbitacearnm y 
Sacc., differs in its spots and curved sporules. The specimens of this 
species in Fungi Gallici , No. 3176, have small (1—2 millim.) white spots, 
and the sporules are strongly curved. 
(To be continued.) 
NEW LITERATURE. 
BY W. A. KETjTjKKMAN. 
“Some Exotic Fungi.” By M. C. Cooke. Grevillea , December, 1887. 
“Ovularia bulbigera, Sacc.” By W. B. Grove, B. A. 1. c. 
“Revision of Polysaccum.” By G. Massee. 1. c. 
“Australian Fungi.” By M. C. Cooke. 1. c. 
“New British Fungi, continued.”’ By M. C. Cooke. 1. c. 
“British Hypiiomycetes : A Catalogue of Known Species.” By 
M. C. Cooke. 1. c. 
“Beitr^ege zur Morphologie und Biologie der Uredineen. 
Inaugural Dissertation.” Yon Paul Dietel aus Greiz, pp. 26, 
plate 1. 
“Curious Growth of Mushrooms.” The Garden , Dec. 10,1887. 
“The plants belong to the rankest and coarsest kind of Horse Mush¬ 
room (Agancus arvensis ), but as they have originated from good spawn of 
the true mushroom (Agancus campestris ) the case affords an additional 
proof of the fact generally accepted by experienced botanists, that the 
Horse Mushroom and Pasture Mushroom are really one and the same 
plant.” (W. G. S.) 
“The Genus Geaster.” Review by A. P. Morgan. AmeHcnn Natural¬ 
ist , November, 1887. 
Appended to his account of Dr. G. B. DeToni's “Revisio Mono- 
graphica Generis Geasteris, Mich.,” Prof. Morgan gives the following 
new species, cuts of which are kindly loaned by the botanical editor of 
the American Naturalist: 
“1. Geaster campestris, Morg. (fig. 1.) 
“Outer peridium thick, multifid; the segments (eight to ten) rellexed, 
whitish below, rufescent within; inner peridium globose, subpedicellate. 
