New York AGRICULTURAL EXXPEPIMENT STATION, 287 
the addenda to Vol. I., in his Sylloge Fangorum Vol. II (June 
1883), gives Cooke’s description in full under the name “ Les- 
tadia Cucurbitacearum (Schw.) Sace.; Spheria Cucurbita- 
cearum Schw. in Fr. Syst. Mye. II., 502; ” and, in Sylloge Fun- 
gorum Vol. IX (1891), page 580, the species is repeated as 
“ Lestadia .Cucurbitacearum (Schw.) Sacec.; Spherella Cu- 
cucurbitacecrum Schw., in Fr. Syst. Myc., II, 502,” with no 
changes except in the synonym. Ellis, in Ellis and Everhart’s 
N. Am. Pyr., page 264, practically translates Cooke’s description 
except “Gregaria,” but names it Lestadia Cucurbitacearum 
(Schw.) and gives Spheria Cucurbitacearum Schw., Sphe- 
rella Cucurbitacearum Cke., and Lestadia Cucurbitacearum 
Sacc., aS synonyms. Of course, it is possible that both Ellis 
and Saccardo gave their descriptions partially from herbarium 
material though that supposition may be incorrect as regards 
Ellis, judging from his note quoted on the opposite page. 
On the other hand, in Sylloge Fungorum Vol. III, page 148, 
Saccardo gives an exact transcription of Spheria Cucurbita- 
cearum Fries (Syst. Myc., Il, p. 502), with the addition of 
spore length, under Phoma Cucurbitacearum (Fr.) Sacec. Al- 
lescher expresses the same view in Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen 
—Flora.Vol. I, part 6, page 284. 
Now, from this brief view of the complications it seems prob- 
able that Lestadia Cucurbitacearum (Schw.) Sacc. and Les- 
tadia Cucurbitacearum (Schw.) Ellis and Ey.(?), are Sphe- 
rella (Lestadia) Cucurbitacearum (Schwein. No. 1699) of 
Cooke, and that the confusion has arisen because neither Sac- 
cardo nor Ellis properly credited Cooke with the description 
he gave. 
