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TWO NEW SPECIES OF CYEINDUOSPORIUM. 
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the soil—or rather sand—is dry and remains so, no undergrowth, except 
young pines, springing up. Len^ites sepiaria, Fr. seems to be the favored 
denizen of the dead pine and not abundant. This rule holds good in 
places where the pine grows along with hard wood species and is then 
not gregarious, as in tlie pine barrens proper. I liave examined num¬ 
bers of fallen pines in both situations, and can only report, besides the 
above, a very few specimens of Jrpex{'^) and of Polyporus carneus, the 
latter a resupinate form and so rare that 1 have never found over one 
half dozen specimens. In the absence of other support, the pine be¬ 
comes, in the struggle of the Fungi for existence, a dernier resort, and 
it seems a poor one. Where the soil is such as to produce a growth of 
hard wood—and thirty or forty species on a few acres is not uncommon— 
there will be found all the conditions of shade, dampness and decay, so 
necessary to the prolihc development of the great family we are con¬ 
sidering. 
TWO NEW SPECIES OF CYEINDROSPOMUM. 
BY J. B. ELLIB AND W. A. KELLERMAN. 
Cylindrosporium Tradescanti^, E. & K. — On living leaves of 
Tradescantia Virginica. Manhattan, Kans., June, 1886. (Kellerman, 
837.) Conidia erumpent in little flesh-colored heaps, cylindric-vermi¬ 
form, a little narrower at one end, 65—80 x 4—5 /^, 4—6-septate (granular 
and nucleate at first); hyplne obscure, nearly obsolete. The affected 
leaves are stained purplish. 
Cylindrosporium angustifolium, E. & K.—On living leaves of 
Yucca angustifolia. Manhattan, Kans., June, 1886. (Kellerman, 838.) 
Spots amphigenous, oval, 4—1 x i cm., yellowish-brown, with a darker 
border; acervuli erumpent, olivaceous, covered by the cuticle for some 
time; conidia scarcely distinguishable from those of the preceding spe¬ 
cies ; hypha3 simple, short, consisting of two or three concatenated cells 
of the proligerous layer. The general appearance is that of Pfioma con- 
centricum. 
SKETCH OF JOHN F. BEAUMONT.* 
BY TIIOS. M. PETERS, A. M. , MOULTON, ALA. 
Prof. John F. Beaumont, according to his own account, was born 
in the state of Pennsylvania, about 1825. lie died at Troy, in Henry 
county, Ala., about the end of the late civil war. In size, manners and 
conduct, as well as name, he was a Canadian Frenchman, but he did not 
This interesting' account ot Prof. Beaumont was sent me some months ago with 
the request that 1 “construct” from it a sketch for publication in the .Touknal. No 
abridgment seemed necessai-y, and, besides, it would lose much if it did not appear 
in the form in which Judge Peters himself furnished it. K. 
