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JOUKNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 
[VOL. 11, 
PiiYLLOSTiCTA LuDOViciAisrA, E. & M.—On living- leaves of Quercus 
aquatica. Louisiana, May, 1886. Rev. A. B. Langlois, Xo. 446. Peritlie- 
cia ampliigenous, but more prominent below, brown, flattened, erumpent, 
150 !J- in diam., scattered over large, red-brown areas of the leaf (mostly 
lateral) or on more definite oval or subangular spots, with a darker, 
slightly raised border ; sporules oval, hyaline, 5—8 x 2—3 /^-. 
PIIYLLOSTICTA ADUSTA, E. & M.—On Orange leaves partly killed by 
frost. Green Cove Springs, Florida, March, 1886. Spots ampliigenous, 
pallid or grayish, with a definite, narrow, yellowish-brown border, mostly 
marginal, 1—4 cm. across or extending along the entire margin of the 
leaf; perithecia ampliigenous, black, subglobose, closely aggregated, 
sometimes confluent, covered Dy the cuticle, which is soon torn, 175—210 
[j- in diam.; sporules hyaline, oblong or subcylindrical, mostly with two 
or three nuclei, 10—16 x 4—7 i >-; basidia 7—10 p- long. Differs from P. 
marginalise Penz., in its larger sporules. 
PIIYLLOSTICTA ('yrill^e, E. & M.— On leaves of Cgrilla racemijiorae 
Green Cove Springs, Florida, Feb. 2d, 1886. Spots large, covering the 
ends and edges of the leaves, red-brown at first, changing to grey-brown 
with age; perithecia black, subglobose, stomatous, deeply immersed, 
then erumpent, mostly epiphyllous, aggregated, 110—140 !>-; sporules 
hyaline, ovoid, granular, 8—10 x 5—7 
Phyllosticta Aesculi, E. & M.—On living leaves of Aesculns 
glabrae Missouri (Galloway, Xo. 76). Ilypophyllous on large, indefinitely- 
limited spots and areas of the leaves; perithecia punctiform, minute 
(40—50 /^), scattered, brown ; sporules oblong-cylindrical, hyaline, 3—4 x 1 
fj-. Differs from P. spliceropsoideae E. & E., in its much smaller sporules. 
Phyllosticta sacciiarina, E. & M.—On living leaves of Acer 
saccharinume Missouri (Galloway, Xo. 86). Spots amphigenous, definite, 
small (1—2 millim.), white, with a rusty-brown border, scattered irregu¬ 
larly ; perithecia epiphyllous, but visible also below, lenticular, black, 
100—120 p in diam.; sporules oblong, 3i-4i x 1—li hyaline. Phyllos¬ 
ticta Pseudoplatanie Sacc., as shown in de T/mem€n'’s Mycothecae 1789, 
has similar spots, but they are clustered on large, reddish-brown spots. 
The specimens in our copy are sterile, but the larger sporules (5—6 x 3 p) 
would separate it. Of P. fallax, Sacc., which this must closely resemble, 
we have no specimen, but this too is said to have the sporules 5—6 x 3—34 p. 
NEW LITERATURE. 
BY W. A. KKLLEKMAX. 
“ Thp: Boleti of the Birmingham Distri(;t.'’ By \V. B. Grove, B. A. 
The Midland Naturaliste October, 1886. 
“ Une nouvelle maladie DU Froment.-’ Berne Mycologiiiqnee Octo¬ 
ber, 1886. The notice contains the diagnosis, by Dr. G. Passerini, of 
a new genus, as follows : 
Girellina, Passer.,nov. gen.—Stroma velsubiculum matrici immers- 
um, byssoideum, atro-griseum, primitis canescens, plus minus expansum, 
ex hyphis tenuibus fumoso-pellucidis intricatus forrnatum ; perithecia 
