PR6 REpoRT OF THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE 
Saceardo’s Sylloge Fungorum. This species is an addition; 
it seems to be an enlargement of Fries’s description, with the 
addition of ascus and spore characters. In a note he says: 
“The sporidia are not mature, but the endochrome is divided, 
-and there is every probability that they are uniseptate when 
mature; in fact, in some instances they appear to be so now; 
but this cannot be affirmed positively, although a figure beside 
the specimens in Herb. Berk. represent the sporidia as unisep- 
tale. : 
It seems probable that the specimens used for this description 
come from or were collected by de Schweinitz and that they 
had asci and spores which Cooke describes. No doubt this is 
the point of departure or origin of the ascosporic species from 
Fries’s Phoma-like fungus. Cooke evidently supposed his to be 
the same as that of Fries, though, of course, the latter makes no 
mention of asci and spores. However, it is possible that one is 
an imperfect form of the other; such an assumption may not be 
made till they have been definitely connected either from fresh 
material or from authentic specimens in herbaria. The former 
method seems possible though the latter is unlikely because 
most of those old type specimens seem unreliable. Ellis*® gives 
a note on this species saying: “ The specimen in Herb. Schw. 
is without fruit; immature or sterile.’ The Director of the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, writes “ that Spherella Cucurbitacearum 
Schwein. No. 1699 has not been found in the Kew Herbarium. 
A copy of the label of the only Schweinitz specimen of this 
species is given below. The specimen was originally in Berk- 
ley’s Herbarium and there is a drawing at the side showing 
the aseptate spores ‘S (subtecte) Cucurbitacearum F, 452 
Herb. Schwein.!’” A specimen of Lestadia Cucurbitacearum 
(Schw.) Sace. by Roumegeure was examined and found not 
only sterile, but without even an indication of fruiting bodies. 
Thus two seemingly distinct things are called Spheria Cu- 
curbitacearum, in later publications, without clearly intimating 
that such complications exist. Saccardo, on page XXXIII of 
38 North American Pyrenomycétes 264, Newfield, N. J. 
