June 1902 ] New Alabama Fungi 73 
Cercospora vincetoxici E. & E.—On leaves of Vincetox- 
icum hirsutum. 
Spots subcircular, reddish-brown, 4-10 mm. diam., with a 
narrow slightly raised, concolorous margin. Fertile hyphae 
amphigenous, simple, erect, continuous, 15-20x3 as brownish, 
slightly toothed or entire above, densely cespitose, the tufts effused 
and forming a slate-colored layer covering the central area of 
the spots. Conidia oblong 20-30 or elongated 30-60x3 n , slightly 
colored, continuous. 
Cercospora canescens E. & M.—Am. Nat. 1003. 1882. 
Mr. Carver sends this on dead stems of Lycopersicum esculen- 
tum, Petunia parviflora and on leaves of Ricinus communis and 
Amaranthus. The hyphae which are crowded in dense tufts 
are at first cylindrical, straight and truncate at the apex but in 
the more elongated ones they sometimes become geniculate and 
some of them branched. The conidia often reach 300 u long and 
become 10-12 (or more) septate. They are quite perfectly hyaline 
and are so abundant as to give the tufts a light-gray appearance. 
Stemphylium copallinum E. & E.—On leaves of Rhus 
copallina. 
Hyphae creeping, loosely and irregularly branched, not in¬ 
terwoven, brown, sparingly septate, 4-5 ju thick. Conidia sub- 
globose, 20-25 ju diam., mostly 4-celled with two septa at right 
angles to each other, some of them 5-6-celled, pale brown at first, 
then opaque, nearly sessile and lateral. 
S. epochniodeum (Berk.) has the conidia much smaller and 
the hyphae hyaline. 
Vermicularia oblongispora E. & E.—On dead stems of 
Portulaca oleracea, Tuskegee, Ala. June 1901. 
Perithecia 80-110 u diam., thin membranaceous, sparingly 
clothed with short (20-50x3 u) brown, continuous hairs mostly 
curved or irregularly bent. Sporules oblong, obtuse,11-14x3-4 
M on basidia longer than the sporules. 
Vermicularia rugulosa E. & E.—On dead stems of Rumex 
crispus, Tuskegee, Ala. Aug. 1900. 
Perithecia scattered, superficial, about \ mm. diam. mem¬ 
branaceous, rugulose, rather sparingly clothed especially around 
the base and sides with straight, rather short (90-120 ) black 
bristle-like hairs. Sporules oblong-fusoid, hyaline, straight, sub- 
obtuse, continuous, 13-15x2 fi. 
Different from V. orthospora Sacc. or V. rectispora Cke. 
