May 1905] 
Notes on Fungi II. New Species 
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NOTES ON FUNGI il. WITH NEW SPECIES FROM 
VARIOUS LOCALITIES. 
P. L. RICKER. 
The type species unless otherwise designated are in the 
author’s herbarium. 
SPHAEROPSIDALES. 
Phyllosticta amphipterygii Ricker n. sp. — Spots subcir¬ 
cular, light-brown, 2-8 mm. in diameter, often confluent, with 
a slightly raised dark reddish brown margin; pycnidia scattered, 
black, epiphyllous, 55-80/A diam.; sporules oblong, often inequi¬ 
lateral, hyaline, bi-guttate, ends acute, 2.5-3x8-10//,. 
On Amphipterygium amphifolium Hemsl. & Rose. Type 
specimen in the U. S. National Herbarium, collected by J. N. 
Rose and Jos. Painter, near Guadalajara, State of Jalisco, Mex¬ 
ico, Sept. 28, 1903. 
USTILAGINALES. 
Tilletia eragrostidis Clinton & Ricker n. sp. — Sori in 
ovaries, ovate to oblong, J-f mm. long, infecting only a part of 
the flowers but showing quite conspicuously; spores globose to 
subglobose, dark brown, with regular reticulations (2.8-4.5/A pro¬ 
jecting as a lighter zone 2.5-3/x,), 25 37/A in diameter. 
On Eragrostis glomerata (Walt.) Dewey. Type specimen 
8841 S. M. Tracy, Yazo City, Miss., Sept. 8, 1904. 
Ustilago bromivora F. de W. Specimens of Brachypodium 
distachyon R. & S. were recently examined, which were badly 
infected with a smut which proved to be an Ustilago. The 
characters and measurements agree in every way with this species 
and as the host is closely related to Bromus it seems best to 
refer the smut to the above species. Specimens collected by A. 
Letourneux, Mariut, Egypt, March 3, 1878. 
Ustilago dutiiiei Ricker n. sp. — Sori in spikelets, infect¬ 
ing ovaries, which are scarcely larger than normal, inconspicuous 
until ruptured, spore mass olive brown; spores golden brown, 
ovoid to subspherical, 8-1 2 /a diam. 
On Andropogon bladhii Retz. Type specimen No. 7699, J. 
F. Duthie, Denra Dun, India, Oct. 22, 1888. 
A large number of smuts have been described on Andropo¬ 
gon but the above material does not seem to agree well with any 
of them described under Ustilago, using as a basis for the genus 
the characters outlined in Clinton’s recent montograph. Neither 
do the spore measurements agree well with the species referred 
to other genera. It is difficult to tell without examining material 
