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dark-colored orbicular spots 1 centimeter or more in diameter. The 
lower surface of the leaf opposite is also of a darker color. The fibrils 
are closely appressed, and except towards tlieir vanishing extremities 
are thickly covered with the minute black sterile perithecia. 
Coniotiiyrium cephalanthi, n. s. On living leaves of Gephaian- 
thus , Bayou Ohene, La,, October, 1888; Langlois, 1532. Spots large, sub- 
orbicular, or irregular; grayisli-brown above, rusty brown below ; often 
subconfluent over a large part of the leaf, all more or less distinctly 
concentrically zoned. Perithecia hypophyllous, minute, abundant, 
erumpent, black. Sporules brown, continuous, globose, 4-5// in diame¬ 
ter, or ovate, 4-5 by 3-3 J//. 
Spii^eropsis smilacis, n. s. On dead stems of Smilax hispida , 
Lincoln, Nebr., November, 1888. H. J. Webber, 34. Perithecia 
scattered, buried in the substance of the bark, bursting the cuticle, but 
only partially erumpent. Sporules oblong, brown, obtuse, 15-20 by 
6 - 8 //. 
Sph^eropsis cladoniae, n. s. On apothecia of Cladonia cariosa , Em¬ 
ma, Mo., March, 1889. Bev. 0. H. Demetrio. Perithecia minute, about 
i millimeter in diameter, and a little more than that in height, obconic- 
cylindrical, subtruncate above. Sporules globose, or obovate-globose, 
yellowish-brown, about 3// in diameter, on stout basidia about 0 by 2//. 
Differs from 8. parasitans , B. & Rav., in its differently shaped smaller 
perithecia and sporules. 
Hendersonia iieterophragmia, n. s. On dead twigs of Sarcoba- 
tus vermiculatus. Near Great Falls, Mont., July, 1889. F. W. Ander¬ 
son, 541. Perithecia erumpent, superficial, subseriate, globose, col¬ 
lapsing, f millimeter in diameter. Ostiolum papilliform. Sporules 
elliptical or oblong elliptical, brown, 1-3-septate 12-10 by 5-7//. 
Hendersonia concentric a, n. s. On living leaves of Rhododendron 
catawbiense , Roan Mountain, North Carolina, July, 1889. Prof. F. L. 
Scribner. Spots exactly as in Pestalozzia concentrica , B. & 0., marginal, 
1-2 centimeter in diameter, variegated with alternate lighter and darker 
zones, margin definite, but not raised. Sporules fusoid-oblong, pale- 
brown, 3-septate, 12-15 by 3/j, on slender basidia 20-30//. long. Acer- 
vuli mostly erumpent above, black. On Rhododendron maximum from 
the same locality, the fungus occurred on large dead areas of the leaf, 
and the concentric zones were scarcely discernible. 
Hendersonia davisii, n. s. On partly dead leaves of Carya alba , 
Racine, Wis., August, 1888. Dr. J. J. Davis, 10. Spots large, oc¬ 
cupying the entire uppei; half of the leaf, dark brown. Perithecia 
mostly epiphyllous, gregarious, black, erumpent £ to -J millimeter in di¬ 
ameter soon more or less buried by the exuding obovate-oblong, pale, 
olivaceous-black, 3-septate, 10-12 by 3-3J//, sporules. 
Septoria latiiyri, n. s. On dead leaves of Lathyrus latifolious 
(cult.), “ Everlasting Pea,” Newfield, N. J., March, 1889. Perithecia 
ainphigenous, gregarious, prominent, mostly in groups, 2-4 millimeters 
