FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
69 
1921, of the Quarterly Bulletin of the 
State Plant .Board. Reprints of this ac¬ 
count are available at the Plant Board 
Exhibit, Hotel Thelma, or they can be ob¬ 
tained by addressing the State Plant 
Board, Gainesville, Florida. 
At the exhibit just referred to, the wri¬ 
ter is also showing cultures of the several 
entomogenous (insect-living) fungi that 
he has been growing: Two strains of the 
Red Aschersonia, one each of the Yellow 
Aschersonia, the Goldiana Fungus, the 
Orange-colored Fungus, the Cuban 
Aschersonia, and the Cephalosporium 
Fungus. 
Heretofore we have listed five fungi 
as known to be parasitic on whiteflies in 
Florida: namely, Red Aschersonia 
(Aschersonia cdeyrodis), Yellow Ascher¬ 
sonia ( Aschersonia flavo-citrina), Brown 
Fungus ( Aegerita webberi), White- 
Fringe Fungus ( Microcera sp.), and Cin¬ 
namon Fungus ( Verticillium heterocla- 
dum). On the so-called Armored Scales 
(hard-shelled scales) there are four: Red¬ 
headed Scale-Fungus ( Sphaerostilbe coc - 
cophila)*, Pink Scale-Fungus ( Microcera 
fugikuroi), White-headed Scale-Fungus 
(Ophionectria coccicola ), and Black Scale 
Fungus ( Myriangium duriaei). For the 
so-called Soft Scales, including the Flor¬ 
ida Wax Scale, we have three: The Cu¬ 
ban Aschersonia ( Aschersonia cubensis ), 
the Turbinate Fungus ( Aschersonia tur- 
binata), and the Cephalosporium Fungus 
(Cephalosporium lecanii). 
*The name of this fungus, probably also of 
some others as listed in this paragraph, will very 
likely be changed in future publications. [Two 
papers by T. Petch in the Transactions (1920) 
of the British Mycological Society.] 
In a talk presented at the Citrus Sem¬ 
inar last October (1921) on “New Strains 
of Entomogenous Fungi,” I spoke of 
finding and then recently growing arti¬ 
ficially a new strain of (1) Red Ascher¬ 
sonia (5805), or Red Whitefly-Fungus, 
of growing (2) the Goldiana Fungus 
(Aschersonia goldiana ), (3) the Cuban 
Aschersonia, and (4) another yellow 
aschersonia (5804) (since that time iden¬ 
tified as the Goldiana Fungus). The first 
and last of these were taken from fungus 
material found infecting whitefly larvae 
on holly and bay collected in a hammock 
near Winter Park by Messrs. F. M. 
O’Byrne and C. E. Whittington, in No¬ 
vember, 1919. The Goldiana Fungus was 
grown from material that had been re¬ 
ceived from Cuba at the Experiment Sta¬ 
tion by Dr. O. F. Burger, and the Cuban 
Aschersonia from material sent to the 
writer by Mrs. D. P. Smith of New 
Smyrna, Florida, where it was controlling 
the Pyriform Scale infesting guava. 
As the information given in my talk 
at the Citrus Seminar has not been pub¬ 
lished, I will here briefly review what I 
stated at that time. 
I emphasized the finding and growing 
of a new strain (No. 5805) of Red 
Aschersonia, or Red White fly-Fungus, 
collected on holly (Ilex cassine) in the 
hammock near Winter Park. It was 
found infecting an unidentified species of 
whitefly and was recently re-collected by 
the writer in the same locality and on the 
same species of holly. I further explained 
that this strain of the Red Aschersonia 
fruited (produced spores) so much better 
than the other strains of Red Aschersonia 
