REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I908 I9 



quandoque omnino evanescente, bulbo volvae rcliquis persistenti- 

 bus marginato; sporis globosis, 8 /Jt in diam. 



Amanita porphyria Fr. 

 Woods. Sand Lake, Rensselaer co. and Alenands, Albany co. 



Aster vittatus Bu. 

 Rocky places. Xear Corning. August. 



Botrytis plebeja Fres. 

 Living leaves of the common red currant, Ribes vulgare 

 Lain. Menands, Albany co. September. It develops on the lower 

 surface of the leaves on large brown spots. Usually one or two 

 spots occur on a leaf. They are on the margin. 



Brassica japonica Sieb. 

 Introduced. Sometimes cultivated as a salad ; but it seeds it- 

 self and persists in gardens. Coopers Plains, Steuben co. August. 

 It is called pepper grass or California pepper grass. 



Calicium alboatrum Floerk. 

 Decaying wood of red oak, Q u e r c u s rubra L. Catskill 

 mountains. September. 



Celtis crassifolia Lam. 

 Near Saugerties, Ulster co. ]\lay and October. 



Cephalozia lunulaefolia Dumort. 

 Decaying wood. Near Little ^loose lake, Herkimer co. Sep- 

 tember. Miss C. C. Haynes. 



Cercospora rudbeckiae n. sp. 



Spots irregular, unequal, sometimes confluent, brownish or green- 

 ish brown ; hypbae hypophyllous, cespitose, .003-.004 of an inch 

 long, .OOO2-.O0O24 broad, fiexuous, sparingly septate ; spores sub- 

 cylindric or tapering upward .0008-.0036 of an inch long, .0002- 

 .00024 broad, 1-3-septate, colored nearly like tlic liypbac. 



Livinjr leaves of the tall cone flower, iv u d b c c k i a 1 a c i n i - 

 a t a L. Near Painted Post, Steuben co. August. 



Spots similar to those of R a m u 1 a r i a rudbeckiae Pk. 

 but hyphac much longer, denser and colored. 



