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(i) Stylospores; (2) irregularly shaped or flattened pycnidia, with a well- 
developed beak; (3) long, stout, and awl-shaped conidiophores; (4) thick, 
black wall at the top of the pycnidia, becoming less noticeable at the 
base. It forms a stroma in culture and beaks 1 mm. or more in length. 
The combination Phomopsis vexans is proposed as the name for the 
fungus. In 1892 Halsted assigned the name Phoma solani to the organ¬ 
ism causing the damping-off of the eggplant, apparently not being aware 
that it was preoccupied by Cooke and Harkness for a fungus on another 
host. In view of that fact, Saccardo and Sydow substituted Phoma 
vexans for Phoma solani Hals. 
Phomopsis vex&ns (Sacc. and Syd.), n. comb. 
Phoma solani Hals., 1892, in N. J. Agr. Expt. Sta., 12th Ann. Rpt., 1891, p. 277. nom. nud. Sacc., 
189s. Syll. Fung., v. 11. pars 3. P. 490. Not Cooke and Hark., 1884, in Grevillea, v. 13, p. 16. 
Phoma vexans Sacc. and Syd., 1899, in Sacc. Syll. Fung., v. 14, p. 889. 
Ascochyta hortorum (Speg.) C. O. Sm., 1905, in Del. Agr. Expt. Sta. Bui. 70. p. 10-14. err. det. Not 
PhyUosticta hortorum Speg. 
On the foliage and stems pycnidia loosely gregarious in more or less definite spots, 
on fruit compact, at first buried, later erumpent, black without, beaked, flattened 
or irregular in shape, on leaves and stems 60 to 200 p. broad, on fruit 120 to 350/1 broad; 
pycnosporessubcylindrical, somewhat acute, 5 to 8 by 2 to 2.8a, continuous, hyaline, 
2-guttulate, rarely 3; basidia simple, short, straight or slightly curved, hyaline, con¬ 
tinuous ; stylospores filiform, curved, rarely straight, 13 to 28/t long. 
Hab. on leaves, stem, and fruit of Solatium melongena. Type specimens deposited 
in the herbarium of the pathological collections of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
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Diedicke, Hermann. 
1911. Die Gattung Phomopsis. Ann. Mycol., v. 9, no. 1, p. 8-35, pi. 3. 
Halsted, B. D. 
1892. Some fungous diseases of the egg-plant. N. J. Agr. Expt. Sta., 12th Ann. 
Rpt. 1891, p. 277-283, fig. 16-22. 
Smith, C. O. 
1904. A new egg plant fungus. Jour. Mycol., v. 10, p. 98-99, 6 fig. May. 
1905. Study of the diseases of some truck crops of Delaware. Del. Agr. Expt. 
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Spegazzini, Carlos. 
1881. Nova addenda ad mycologiam venetam. Atti, Soc. Crittog. Ital., ann. 24, 
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Voglino, Pietro. 
I 9°7* Intomo ad un parassita dannoso al Solanum Melongena. Malpighia, ann. 
21, fasc. 7/8, p. 353-363, ph 4- 
I 9 I 3 - I funghi pift dannosi alle piante osservati nella provincia di Torino e 
regioni vicine nel 1911. Ann. R, Accad. Agr. Torino, v. 55, 1912, p. 
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