Report of the Cryptogamic Botanist. 



To the Director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment 

 Station: 



Sir. — I respectfully submit the following report for the past 

 year: 



One bulletin (Bulletin 94, May, 1895), has been published during 

 the year, which treats of several of the obscure fungi which cause 

 the rot of seedlings and other green-house plants. The bulletin 

 consists of forty pages and is illustrated with six full-page plates, 

 representing the life history and development of the parasites. 



Other investigations are in progress which, in time, will be 

 presented for publication, especially on the leaf spot of the quince 

 and pear. In connection with this, there has been discovered 

 a hitherto unknown fungus which is quite abundant on pear 

 leaves, causing much the same appearance and injury as the ordi- 

 nary leaf spot (Entomosporium maculatum), and probably many 

 times having been mistaken for it, since it is impossible from the 

 usual popular descriptions of this fungus to distinguish it from 

 this new one. Probably many of the descriptions which have been 

 given heretofore of experiments for the prevention of leaf-spot 

 have been wrongly applied to the Entomosporium. Several other 

 investigations which were mentioned in the last report are still 

 under wav. 



Dr. E. J. Durand, assistant cryptogamic botanist, has been en- 

 gaged upon the investigations of the life history and development 



