JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 
Vol. IE. MANHATTAN, KANSAS, FEBRUARY, 1887. No. 2. 
ADDITIONS TO CERCOSPORA, GLOEOSPORIUM 
AND CYEINDROSPORIUM. 
BY J. B. EEEIS AND B. M. EVERHART. 
Cercospora destructiva, Ravenel.— On dying leaves of Euon- 
ymus Japonica , Aiken, So. Car., September, 1886. H. W. Ravenel, No. 
4122. Spots amphigenous, brown, becoming gray or whitish, 3—4 millim. 
in diam., with a narrow, raised, darker border, sometimes confluent and 
covering a large part of the leaf; hyphse amphigenous, but more per¬ 
fectly developed above, erumpent, in large (one sixth to one fifth millim.) 
scattered, spseriseform tufts of a smoky olive color, 30—45 x 3—4 /-*, olive- 
brown, simple, subdentate above, sparingly septate, bearing at their tips 
the oblong or oblclavate, 1—3-septate, subhyaline, 20—40 x 3 y conidia. 
Cercospora serpentaria, E. & E. —On living leaves of Avis- 
tolochia serpentaria , Faulkland, Del., September, 1886. A. Commons,No. 
337. Spots amphigenous, gray, with a narrow black border, wh ; ch again 
is often surrounded by a fuscous belt included in a second narrow black 
border, diameter of the gray spot, 1—H millim., or of the whole, 3—4 
millim.; hyphse mostly hypophyllous, forming smo)£y-colored tufts 
thickly scattered over the gray spots, simple, continuous or sparingly 
septate, abruptly bent and toothed, pale brown, 50—75 x 4—5 y ; conidia 
fusoid, 1—3-septate, 40—60 x 4—5 /■*, or subacicular, elongated to 75 or 80 
y long, 3—5-septate, smoky or yellowish hyaline. Very different from 
C. olivascens, Sacc. 
Cercospora Stylosanthis, E. & E.—On dead, brown, rather in¬ 
definitely-limited spots and parts of the leaves of Stylosayitlies elatior, 
Delaware, September, 1886. Commons, No. 336. Hypophyllous ; tufts 
subconfluent, subolivaceous; hyphse densely tufted, very short (15—20 
x 4—5 y), simple, contracted above, mostly entire, pale brown; 
conidia obclavate, slender, 50—75 x 3 y, faintly 3—5-septate, yellowish- 
hyaline. The affected leaves have a dead, scorched look. 
Cercospora Sequoee, E. & E.—On dying foliage of Sequoia 
gigantea , Germantown Nurseries, Penn., September, 1886. Com. Thos. 
Meehan. Forming large, compact, olivaceous tufts which, under the lens, 
resemble the perithecia of a Sphcerella; hyphse (under the microscope) 
ferruginous, brown, abruptly bent, subnodulose and toothed, sparingly 
