688 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
Ramularia variata n. jsp. 
Spots amphigenous, angular, limited in part by the veins, 
yellowish brown becoming black, cm. i n diameter; coni- 
diophores hypophyllous, fasciculate, hyaline, simple, straight or 
apical portion oblique, continuous or indistinctly septate, denti¬ 
culate, 25-45 x 2%-3/a; conidia subapical, catenulate, hyaline, 
ovoid to fusoid to cylindrical, continuous or the longest 1-sep- 
tate, 10 x 5-30 x 3/a. On Monarda fistulosa. Lynxville, Wiscon¬ 
sin, Sept. 3, 1915. This is very similar to Ramularia lamiicola 
C. Massal. but in the absence of knowledge as to the cause of the 
resemblance I am considering the American form on Monarda 
as specifically distinct. 
In Farlow’s Host Index Mentha canadensis is given as a host 
of Ramularia menthicola Sacc. and in the provisional list collec¬ 
tions on this host were recorded under that name. The Wis¬ 
consin specimens however as well as those collected in Montana 
by E. T. and E. Bartholomew and issued in Fungi Columbiani 
4380 I am now referring to the species described above. They 
differ from R. menthicola Sacc. as described, in the character of 
the spots and in the shorter conidiophores. In the Montana 
specimens the spots apparently do not become black as they do 
in the Wisconsin ones. It may be that this is not distinct from 
Ramularia lycopi Hollos which I have not seen. A word as to 
the Monarda host: as it occurs in Wisconsin the under surface 
of the leaves bears very^. short (30-40/a), conical, erect hairs that 
form a pile that is somewhat velvety to the touch. With these 
are much longer white, pilose hairs that are usually few but in 
some specimens more abundant. 
Cercospora depazeoides Sacc. On Sambucus canadensis. 
Grant County opposite Bridgeport. 
Cercospora gentianicola Ell. & Evht. On Halenia deflexa. 
Solon Springs. The following notes were made from this col¬ 
lection: Spots dark, indefinite, becoming confluent; conidio¬ 
phores hypophyllous or epiphyllous, fasciculate from small black 
stromatic tubercles, fuligenous to dark brown, straight or more 
often more or less flexuose, continuous, entire or denticulate, 10- 
40x3-4 /a; conidia hyaline, obclavate-cylindrical, straight or 
curved, becoming tri-septate, 40-72 x 3-5/a. I take Cercospora 
gentianae Pk. to be a synonym. 
