Vol. n. MANHATTAN, KANSAS, APRIL, 1886. No. 4. 
NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI FROM VARIOUS L.O- 
CAEITIES. 
BY .J. B. ET.r^IS AND U. M. EVERHART. 
Thelephoka Florid ana, E. & E.—On bark of dead limbs. Florida. 
W. VV. Calkins, No. 187. Resupinate; following the inequalities of the 
bark, and forming a thin, continuous umber-colored stratum, several 
inches in extent; margin thin, concolorous; component threads, about 
5 u- in diameter, distantly septate, much branched, many of the branches 
issuing nearly at a right angle ; spores subglobose, rough (echinulate), 
large, 10 ij- in diameter. In its thin loose texture, approaching Zygodesmus. 
Phyllosticta IV..ECOLA, E. & E.— On living leaves of Iva iru- 
tescens. Plaquemines Co., La., Jan., 1886, Rev. A. B. Langlois, 193. 
Spots amphigenous, small (1—2 millim.), whitening out, with a 
slightly raised, narrow, brown border. Perithecia epiphyllous, puncti- 
form (75—90 /^-), thin, black, sporules ovate- or oblong-elliptical, hyaline, 
4—5 X li 
Cyphella subcyanea, E. & E.—On living leaves of Sabal Pal¬ 
metto. Louisiana, Nov., 1885. Rev. A. B. Langlois, No. 57. Shal¬ 
low cup-shaped, thin, substipitate, oblique, less than 1 millim. 
across, whitish and nearly smooth outside, hyrnenium bluish, or lead 
colored. Spores filiform, multinucleate, upper end thickened, curved into 
a semicircle, 40—60 p- long by li P- thick, on short (10—12 x U—2 /'•) sub- 
cylindrical sporophores, which are a little thickened below. 
Cyphella Ronance, Cke., has spores 10—12 x 2i P and disk snow white, 
O. muscecola, B. &■ C., has an orange disk and C. Palmar urn, B. & C., is 
white with a tomentose stipe. 
Diplodina gall.e, E. <& E.—On oak galls. Massachusetts, Miss C. 
H. Clarke. Small, black, scattered, covered by the epidermis which is soon 
ruptured, exposing the suberumpent perithecia wliich lie either singly or 
in little groups of 3—6. Spores obovate, 1-septate, subhyaline (with a yel¬ 
lowish tint), 10—12 X 5—7 p, on stout pedicels. Differs from Spha3ropsis 
gallae. B. & C. (which is not a Sphceropsis but a Phoma with small 
( 5__0 \ 2—3 !>■) hyaline spores), in its much larger 1-septate spores. 
