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end, uniseptate and hyaline.” The specimens of this species in 
Saccardo’s Mycotheca Yeneta 1227 on Chcnopodium inurale have 
the sporules 15—20 x 3—4, continuous or 1-septate. Those in 
Myc.Mar. 387, on Atriplex (sp.), have sporules 15—22 x 4 -—5, 
1—3-septate, the larger ones slightly constricted at the septa. 
Those in Eriksson’s Fungi Scan. 188. on Atriplex hastata have 
sporules 15—22 x 3J—4J and mostly 1-septate. Specimens of 
Septoria Chenopodii, West, from de Tliumen, on Chenopodium 
murale have the sporules continuous,20—25 x3—3J. In Mycotheca 
Marchica 1570 (on C. rubrum ), the sporules are partly 1-septate. 
and 15—25 x 3—3J and partly larger 15— 22 x 3—4,1—3-septate. 
All the specimens above mentioned have the same general appear¬ 
ance and can not be distinguished by their external character; nor 
do their sporules differ sufficiently to warrant specific distinction, 
being mostly continuous or uniseptate in perithecia on the smaller 
and paler spots, on leaves still green, and larger and 1—3-sep¬ 
tate on spots apparently older, on leaves nearly dead. In the 
original specimens of Phleospora Chenopodii E. & K. on leaves 
of Chenopodium from Kansas, the spots are concentrically wrinkled 
and have a definite, slightly raised border, in which respect as well 
as in the much thicker (7 — 11 micr.) sporules strongly constricted 
at the septa they differ from the specimens of Septoria Atriplicis 
and S, Chenopodii , though considering the variability in the spor- 
ulcs of these two so called species, there may be good reason to 
doubt whether Ph. Chenopodii , is more than a var. or a more 
perfectly developed form of S, Atriplicis , (Dcsm.), In the 40th 
Rep. N. Y. State Mus, Nat. Hist, is a Stagonospora Chenopodii , 
Pk. which was published at about the same time as the last 
mentioned species but if the genus Phleospora is to be re¬ 
tained it will evidently include Peck’s species which, unless it can 
claim priority (which is doubtful), will become a synonym of 
Phleospora Chenopodii , E. & K. The Minnesota specimens 
differ from the Kansas specimens of Phi. Chenopodii only in the 
less definitely margined spots without any concentric wrinkles. 
This variability would seem to strengthen the supposition that all 
the forms here enumerated may be referable to Septoria ( Phyl - 
losticta) Atriplicis , Desm. It should also have been noted that 
the specimens in N. A. F. 1108, labelled u Phyllosticta Chenopo¬ 
dii, West ,” and having sporules 12—16x3—4, some of them 
faintly uniseptate are evidently only an imperfectly developed 
state of Septoria Atriplicis , Desm. J. B. E. 
