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subglobose, subhyaline conidia which are 3—3J in the longer 
diameter. 
Isaria straminipes, E. k E.—On decaying twigs lying on 
damp shady ground. St. Martinsville, La., May, ’88. Rev. A. 
B, Langlois, No* 1230. Stromata simple, clavate, tomentose- 
farinose head obtuse and about 1 mm. thick. Conidia abundant, 
obovate, hyaline 2—2J x 1. There is at first a small patch of 
bright yellow subiculum at the base of the stem but the yellow 
color of this subiculum as well as of the stem itself changes to a 
tobacco brown. This possibly is not distinct from 1. clavata, 
Desm, which is said to be of a “reddish-yellow color inclining to 
umber brown’’ with “sporidia” of the same color. Saccardo des¬ 
cribes and figures the Italian specimens as white. The La. 
specimens have the stem bright yellow (at first) and only the club- 
shaped head white. 
Dendrodochium densipes. Sacc. k Ell.—On bark of dead 
cedar, Faulkland, Del. A. Commons 639. Sporodochia seriate- 
erumpent, globose, minute then applanate-pulvinate, suborbicular 
with partially free margin and 1 mm. or more diam. pale-orange, 
. subconfluent. Sporophores fasciculately branched, branches erect, 
20—35 x 1|. Conidia terminal, ovate-elliptical, hyaline, about 
5 x 2J. Longitudinally seriate in cracks of the bark. 
Var. prolificum, E. k E.—On bark of Salix, Louisiana, Lang¬ 
lois 1454, has the conidia a little smaller, (5—6 x 2j) with their 
ends subacute and basidia evanescent. 
Dendrodochium simile, E. k E.—On bark of dead Carya olivae- 
formis. Louisiana Langlois No. 1398, Sporodochia seriate-erum- 
pent, pale orange, whitish pulverulent, J—1 mm. diam. or by con¬ 
fluence 2—3 mm. Sporophores erect, branched, the branches closely 
appressed. Conidia oblong, 2—2| x J—f. Has the same struct¬ 
ure as D.densipes,S. k E.from which it differs in its smaller conidia. 
Septoria atripliois, (Desm.) and septoria chenopodii, West• 
—In examining some leaves of Blitum capitatum , sent by Mr. 
Ilolway, collected by Mr, J. M. Holzinger at Winona, Minn, and 
infested by a fungus which is either the same as or closely allied 
to Phleospora Chenopodii , E. k K. (J. M. iv, p. 26), a careful 
examination was made of all the specimens of Septoria Atriplicis 
(Desm.) & S. Chenopodii , West, in the different Exsiccati at my 
command to ascertain more definitely, if possible, whether the 
fungus collected by Mr, Holzinger, and the Phleospora Chenopo¬ 
dii, E. k K. were really distinct from the species of Westendorp 
and Desmazieres. Of Septoria Atriplicis, (Desm), Fuckel in his 
Symb. Mvc. p, 390, says the sporules are “oblong, obtuse at each 
