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sterile hyphse, about 40 x 3 y and mostly curved. Phyllosticta destructiva, 
Desm., is said to grow on various plants and among them are Malvct and 
Althoea , but the specimen of P. destructiva in Thumen’s Mycotheca, 
1,299, on Althaea rosea has sporules only about 5 x 2 y, and of the five 
numbers in Fungi Gallici labeled P. destructiva, only one affords any 
spores, viz.: 2,038, on Malva silvestris , having sporules 10—11 x 3i—4 y 
and pseudo-septate, agreeing tolerably with Saccardo’s Ascochyta althceina 
(Syll. Ill, p. 399). The specimen of P. destructiva in Rabh-Winter’s 
Fungi Eur., 3,092, is different from all the others and certainly very 
different from the Kansas specimens which must also be different from 
P. sidcecola , Ck., said to have sporules 4x2 y. 
* ScoLECOTRicnuM maculicola, E. & K.—On living and partly dead 
leaves of Pkragmites communis. Kansas. June, 1887. W. A. Kellerman. 
Spots amphigenous, narrow elliptical, about 5—8 x2 millim., dirty white, 
with a dark border; hyphse liypophyllous, subundulate, continuous or 
with a single faint septum near the base, subfuliginous, about 40x4— 5y, 
growing in dense, spreading, olivaceous, seriate tufts, forming a single 
continuous line along the middle of each spot; conidia terminal, granu¬ 
lar, continuous (so far as yet seen), ovate, ovate-elliptical or oblong, sub¬ 
hyaline, 20—22 x 8—11 y. IS. tomentosum , Eon., is said to have septate 
hyphse and nothing is said of any spots. Hadotrichum lineare , Pk., also 
resembles this, but has no spots and the liyphse are darker, longer (45—55 
y) and straight, and the conidia mostly shorter and more distinctly ovate. 
Ramularia occidentals, E. &K — On leaves of Rumex Britannica. 
Manhattan, Kas., July, 1887. W. T. Swingle. Amphigenous, spreading 
over the greater part of the leaf, but here and there forming denser 
patches of the minute, white, punctate tufts ; hyphoe caespitose, bacillary 
or slightly undulate above, entire or nearly so, 20—35 x 2j —3 y , hyaline 
and continuous, bearing at their tips the more or less distinctly cntenu- 
late, hyaline conidia, which vary in size and shape from ovate or ovate- 
elliptical, 5—6 x 2—3 y to narrow-cylindrical, 25—85 x 1£— 2 y, granular or 
nucleolate. This appears to differ from all the other species on Rumex 
in the entire absence of spots and in the shape and size of its conidia. 
Cercospora Asimin^e, E. & K.—On living leaves of Asimina triloba. 
Mound City, Ks., July, 1887. W. A. Kellerman. Spots scattered, small 
(1—2 millim. mostly), sterile, rather indefinite and purplish-brown above, 
grayish or mouse-colored below ; fertile hyphse scarcely tufted, short, 
brown, 12—15 x 6—7 y, rounded above or sometimes divided into several 
branches ; conidia subolivaceous, broad, lanceolate, 5 —7-septate, 60—80 x 
6—7 y. A very curious and distinct species. 
Cercospora fuligniosa, E. & K.—On living leaves of Diospyros 
Virginiana. Mound City, Ks., July, 1887. W. A. Kellerman. Spots 
amphigenous, small (1—2 millim.), purple-black; hyphre liypophyllous, 
closely fasciculate-csespitose, dark olivaceous, 100—150 x 3 y, obscurely 
septate, undulated and abruptly bent and much toothed above; conidia 
obclavate, 3-septate, olivaceous, 35—40 x 4 slightly curved. Differs 
from C. Diospyn , Thurn., in its definite spots and different liyphse and 
conidia. 
