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Ceroospora Brunkii, n. s. On leaves of geranium (cult.). Brazos 
County, Tex., November, 1889. Prof. T. L. Brunk. Spots ampkigenous, * 
light-brownisli or pale brick color, orbicular or oval, f-2J millimeters 
in diameter, with a narrow, slightly raised, and rather darker border, 
which is more prominent on the lower side of the leaf. Hyphse am- 
phigenous, but more abundant below; pale brown, 90-200 by 3-5//, sub- 
geniculate, 2-5 septate, forming loose spreading tufts of 5-6 (rarely 
more). Conidia clavate-cylindrical, hyaline, multiseptate (5-20). 50- 
125//. long, 3-4//. thick (at the lower end). Differs from C. geranii in 
its darker hyphse with more numerous septa, its larger multiseptate 
conidia and the raised border of the spots. 
Dendrodochium subeffusum, n. s. N. A. F. 394. On thallus of 
some foliaceous lichen on trunk of a pear tree. Farmington, N. Y., Au¬ 
gust, 1889. E. Brown, 134. Sporodochia subeffused, spreading over 
parts of thallus and apothecia, collected and condensed here and there 
into compact orange-red subapplanate masses about 1 millimeter in 
diameter. Basidia subulate, 25-35 by 2-3//, sparingly branched. Con¬ 
idia terminal, solitary, subglobose to ovate and elliptical hyaline 1-2 
nucleate, 5-8 by 4J-6//. 
Scoriomyces Andersoni. n. s. Under a decaying log of Pinuspon- 
derosa. Belt Mountains, Montana. Altitude 6,500 feet. September, 
1889. F. W. Anderson. Forms a waxy-yellow porous mass, 4-12 cen¬ 
timeters long, 2-4 centimeters thick and 2-4 centimeters wide, with an 
irregularly lobed outline and uneven, colliculose surface; lying among 
the decaying wood and humus and resembling somewhat a mass of col¬ 
lapsed honeycomb. It is made up principally of loosely compacted glo¬ 
bose spores, 35-55// in diameter and filled with coarse granular mat¬ 
ter. Differs from S. Cragini , S. & E., in its more compact growth and 
larger spores. In S. Cragini they are only 18-20// in diameter. 
NEW FUNGI. 
By J. B. Ellis and B. D. Halsted. 
Phyllosticta molluG riNis-, n. s. On Mollugo verticillata. New 
Brunswick, N. J., October, 1889. Perithecia ampkigenous, scattered, 
black, prominent, 80-100// in diameter. Sporules oblong or elliptical- 
oblong, hyaline, 8-10 by 3-4//. 
Septoria rudbeckije, n. s. On leaves of Rudbeckia laciniata , north¬ 
ern New Jersey, September, 1889. Halsted. On R. hirta , Wilmington, 
Del., October, 1889. Commons, 1033. Spots conspicuous, of a weather¬ 
beaten or wood-colored brown, 2-4 millimeters in diameter, irregu¬ 
lar, subangular in outline, with a definite darker border surrounded by 
a purplish stain. On R. laciniata , often one or two smaller white spots 
are included in the larger brown spots. On both hosts the spots are 
paler below. Perithecia epipliyllous, prominent, subacute, black, scat- 
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