Dec. 1902] 
Ohio Stations for Myriostoma 
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OHIO STATIONS FOR MYRIOSTOMA. 
JOHN H. SCHAFFNER. 
Myriostoma coliformis is regarded as quite a rare species for 
America. So far as the writer is informed, it has been reported 
from only four states, widely separated; in Colorado, Florida, 
Ontario, and South Dakota. The past summer, while on a col¬ 
lecting trip with Professors E. L. Moseley and W. E. Wells, on 
Cedar Point, Erie Co., Ohio, the writer discovered a large patch 
of this interesting fungus growing in the rich leaf mold on the 
bay side of the Point. Most of the specimens were in excellent 
condition. Later the writer collected the plant at several other 
places on Cedar Point. Miss L. C. Riddle found it on Green 
Island, Ottawa Co., where a considerable number of fine speci¬ 
mens were collected by the writer in a short time. 
The plants grow in open places under trees and shrubs where 
there is an abundance of moist leaf mold. It is probably quite 
common in this region wherever the environment is suitable. The 
plants found matured the latter part of July and the early part of 
August and this is probably the best time to look for them. 
Botanical Department, Ohio State University. 
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NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI FROM VARIOUS LOCALITIES. 
BY J. B. ELLIS AND E. BARTHOLOMEW. 
Aecidium delphinii Barthol.—On leaves of Delphinium 
scopulorum. Steamboat Springs, Colo. July 15, 1902. E. 
Bethel. 
Hypophyllous. Spots on the upper side of the leaf yel¬ 
lowish brown with lighter margin. Circinate-clustered, 3-5 mm. 
diam., deep orange color, irregularly scattered over the leaf. Ae- 
cidia medium height, 250-350 diam., lacerate fringed at first but 
smooth with even surface when fully expanded. Spermogonia 
few and indistinct. Spores irregular, rough in outline, subglobose 
or angular, containing one or more bright golden nuclei, 20-25 
V■ diam. Mr. Bethel in his notes says: “Epidemic this year — 
there are thousands of acres of it here.” 
Diaporthe (Chorostate) celastrina E. & B. — On dead 
stems of Celastrus scandens. Clyde, Kansas, May 1901. (No. 
2856.) 
Perithecia in circinate groups of 5-15, globose, -J mm. diam., 
horn color inside, slightly raising the surface of the wood, and the 
short-cylindrical, smooth, subconical-pointed fasciculate ostiola 
