July 1904] New Species of Fungi 167 
spect with the description and this is the first collection known 
on this host. 
Puccinia obscura Schroet.— A species not before observed 
by the author was collected on Juncoides comosum (E. Mey.) 
Sheld., at Ukiah, Oreg., by Mr. M. A. Crosby, Aug. 21, 1903. 
U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry, 
Department of Agriculture. 
NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI FROM VARIOUS LOCALITIES. 
BY J. B. ELLIS AND B. M. EVERHART. 
Dendrodocliium sepultum E. & E.— On dead limbs of 
Ulmus pubescens. Natoma, Kansas, Jan. 8. 1904. (E. Barthol¬ 
omew, 3139). 
Sporodochia densely gregarious, orange-red, single or sev¬ 
eral smaller ones subconfluent, at first entirely covered by the 
epidermis which is raised into flattish pustules 1-2 mm. diam., 
soon ruptured, but still closely adherent, until the upper part 
entirely disappears, exposing the concave, pezizoid sporodochium. 
Sporules oblong, continuous, rounded at the ends, 10-15x5-6^, 
hyaline or with a slightly yellowish tinge, terminal on fasciculate, 
thread-like basidia, 30-70 \x long, simple or furcately branched. 
Nos. 2831 and 2899 (Bartholomew) on Morus alba are the 
same as this. 
This may be the conidial stage of Peziza cruenta Schw. 
Sph^eropsis grandinea E. & E. — On twigs of Maple. 
Riverside, Ill. March 1903. (E. T. & S. A. Harper, 796). 
Perithecia minute, (£~J mm.) thickly scattered, raising 
the bark into minute pustules but hardly rupturing it. Sporules 
elliptical or subovate, 15-20x8-10^, on stout basidia as long as 
the sporules or a little longer. 
Sphseropsis clintonii Pk. is on decorticated wood and has 
sporules oblong-elliptical and a little shorter. S. acerina E. & B. 
(according to our specm.) is a Haplosporella,— perithecia in a 
cortical stroma, 2-6 in a stroma, sporules oblong. 
Harknessia (?) tetracerae E. & E.— On leaves of Tetra- 
cera volubilis. Nicaraugua, 1903. (C. F. Baker, 3992.) 
Amphigenous, apparently superficial, consisting of scattered, 
subhemispherical heaps of conidia which are ovate or elliptical, 
12-15x6-7^, hyaline at first, then brown with a light colored 
streak across the middle. The heaps of conidia are black and i-i-| 
mm. in diameter. 
No perithecium was seen nor any cavity in the substance of 
the leaf from which the conidia were discharged, and in this 
respect the fungus does not agree with the generic character of 
either Harknessia or Melanconium. 
