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compound, than the third syllable from the end. This is the 
case if the quantity of the last syllable be short; if it is long, the 
accent may recede only as far as the second syllable from the 
end. It will at once be recognized that this secondary law often 
shifts the accent of the emphatic word in a compound to a dif- 
erent syllable from the one upon which it originally rested. For 
instance, myrio-stoma would in prehistoric Greek have become 
myrio-stoma, like the Sanskrit sahasra-mukha of almost the 
same meaning quoted above. But, in the earliest records we 
have, Greek had already completed the shifting due to the law 
of recessive accent, and therefore we find myrio-stoma. So also 
caryo-spora, if it had occurred in early Greek, would have been 
caryo-spora. The latinization of most of the mycological words 
of this type reduces the number of clear examples for illustra¬ 
tion. 
When the foundation word is more than three syllables in 
length, or has a long final syllable, it is evident that the law of 
recessive accent must withdraw the emphasis completely from the 
preceding dependant word. An example of this is poly-cepha- 
lum, which would have been poly-cephalum in prehistoric Greek, 
from the elements poly-cephale, which naturally had to undergo 
such a compromise when they became united into one word. A 
still more apparent example is cylindro-cephalum; the first of 
its component parts is cylindro-, which likewise had to give up its 
accent entirely, since it preceded a three-syllabled word in the 
combination. 
NEW SPECIES OE FUNGI FROM VARIOUS 
LOCALITIES. 
J. B. ELLIS AND B. M. EVERHART. 
Septorella* sorghi E. & E. On leaves of Sorghum hala- 
pense, Tuskegee, Ala. (Prof. Geo. W. Carver, 383). 
Perithecia gregarious on dry, dead areas of the leaves, super¬ 
ficial, globose, coarsely tubercular-roughened, subcarbonaceous, 
80-100 /* diam. Sporules elongated-fusoid, slightly curved, 3-4- 
nucleate becoming faintly 3-4-septate, yellowish-hyaline, 40-55 x 
2 ft. Basidia very short. 
Macrophoma ulmicola E. & E. On dead elm twigs, Riv¬ 
erside, Ill., November, 1902. (E. T. & S. A. Harper, No. 781.) 
Comm. Elam Bartholomew. 
Perithecia thickly scattered, white inside, apex erumpent. 
Sporules globose or shortly elliptical, large 15-20/* in the longer 
The genus Septorella was published in Hedwigia 1897, p. 241. The name is 
badly chosen, differing only in a single letter^ from Septoriella Oudemans, in his 
Contributions St la Mycol. Flora des Pays-bas, XIII, p. 52, but the fungus described 
by Oudemans is very different from the Septorella of Allescher, the perithecia in 
Prof. Oudeman’s genus being enclosed in a dothideaceous stroma. The sporules 
in the species published by Allescher are smaller (18-22 x 1 //) than in s. sorghi. 
