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JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 
[VOL. II, 
SErToiiTA SYMPHORiCAiiri, E. & E. —Oil leaves of Sympliori- 
carpus. Valley City, Dakota, Aug., 1881. Prof. A. B. Seymour. 
Spots subcircular, small ( 1—2 millim.), white with a brown border. 
Perithecia subleuticular, black, epiphyllous, few (1—5), prominent; 
sporules subcylindrical, a little narrower below, nearly straight, 20—40 
(mostly 30—40) x 2 !J- and faintly 1—3 septate. The white spots are often 
included in larger irregularly-shaped rusty-brown spots and areas of the 
leaf, but the perithecia are, so far as observed, ('ontined to the white 
spots. Besides the large brown spots, tlie leaves are thickly spotted with 
smaller (1—2 millim.) brown spots. 
I^ESTALOZZiA suFFOCATA, E. & E.—Oil living rose leaves kept 
for some days under a bell-glass. Prof. E. L. Scribner. Erumpent 
in black cirrhi. Conidia oblong-fusiform, 22—26 x 5—6 !>-, the three 
inner cells brown, the terminal ones hyaline, contracted below into a 
pedicel about as long as the conidia and crowned above with a crest of 
three hyaline spreading bristles 25—30 !>■ long. 
Melanconium triangulare, E. & E.—(IS", xl. F. 1568.) On dead 
limbs of Carpiyms Americana. West Chester, Pennsylvania, June, 1882. 
Everhart & Haines. xAcervuIi subepidermal, orbicular, thin, stroma corti¬ 
cal, elevated in the center into a little conical pustule. Spores obtusely 
triangular, small (5—6 y-) brown under the microscope, black when 
seen in mass on the matrix, borne on the tips of slender basidia about 
15 xl y, at length oozing out. In the early stage of growth, the stroma is 
distinctly multilocular, but this structure tinally disappears. The shape of 
the spores indicates a relationship to Astevosporium. Found on the same 
limbs with Valsa {Diaporthe ) Ellisii, Rehm., probably its pycnidial 
stage, thus indicating that this last-named species is a near ally of Mel- 
anconis, a supposilion still further strengthened by the faintly appendic- 
ulate sporidia with a thin, gelatinous coat. 
lSroRiDESMm3i iNQUiNANS, E. & E.—Under side of a decaying oak 
plank. Jdaquemines Co., La., Dec., 1885. Rev. A. B. Langlois, 139, in part. 
Forming a <lense purplish-blacl,i, pulverulent layer, having almost tlie 
same appearance as Torula herbarum, L^ers. Conidia subglobose, rough- 
ish, opaque, 12-25/'- in diameter, pedicellate, but the pedicels, which are 
about equal in length to the diameter of the conidia, are soon deciduous. 
The conidia, witli their closely compacted, component cells, are much 
like tliose of >8. hysteriokleum, C. & E., and somewhat resemble blackber¬ 
ries. Nearly allied to S. lepraria, B. & Br., but more pulverulent, and 
conidia smaller. 
SPORIDES3IIU3I iiELTCoiDES, E. & E. Under side of an old oak 
plank. Plaquemines Co., La., Dec., 1885. Rev. A. B. Langlois, No. 139, 
Compacted jnto a thin, black, crustaceous layer, forming patches 
2—3 cm. long by about 1 cm. wide, and composed of cylindrical, <lai-k- 
colored, multiseptate conidia, 40—69 /'- long and 6—8 p wide, some of 
whicli are nearly straight, but oftener tlie tips are involute, so as to re¬ 
semble the conidia of Helicornyces; occasionally, one or more cells are 
