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perithecia amphigenous, few, depressed, .3-6 mm broad, brown or 

 blackish brown ; spores variable, continuous or pseudouniseptate, 

 cblong or subcylindric, obtuse, hyaline, 6-15 x 2.5-4 fx. 



Living or languishing leaves of alfalfa, Medicago sativa 

 L. Geneva. ]\Iay and June. F. C. Stewart. 



It may be separated from Ascochyta medicaginis Bres. 

 by its habitat and smaller perithecia and spores. 



Ascochyta rhei E. & E. 

 Living leaves of pie plant, Rheum rhapontic u m L. Orient 

 Point. R. Latham. This was originally described as Phyllo- 

 s t i c t a rhei E. & E. 



Boletus albidipes n. sp. 

 For description of this species see article on Edible Fungi in 

 another chapter of this report. 



Boletus ballouii n. sp. 



Plate VIII, figures 1-5 



Pileus fleshy, firm, often irregular, convex becoming nearly plane 

 or slightly depressed in the center, dry, unpolished or minutely 

 tomentose, occasionally rimosely squamose, at first bright orange or 

 orange tinged with brown, becoming wood brown or subcinnamon 

 with age or in drying, flesh white tinged with yellow beneath the 

 cuticle, taste mild or sometimes slightly disagreeable ; tubes at first 

 white or whitish becoming smoky brown where cut or bruised and 

 brown or brownish in drying, usually slightly depressed around the 

 stem and adnexed or subdecurrent ; stem variable, solid, mealy or 

 minutely scurfy, striate or subreticulate at the top, single or cespitose, 

 white or pallid above, yellow or orange below, similar to the pileus 

 in color when dry, its flesh when cut while fresh assuming a brownish 

 tint, mycelium white, radiating at the base; spores pale yellow 

 inclining to orange, 8-10x4-5 H-> cystidia rare, fusiform, granular 

 within. 



Pileus 5-12 cm broad; stem 2.5-12 cm long, 7-15 mm thick. 



Orient Point. October. R. Latham. Specimens have also been 

 received with copious notes from XV. H. Ballon for whom the 

 species is named. They were collected in groves at or near Deal 

 Beach. X. J. It is said to be common in Monmouth co.. N. J. This 

 1 a beautiful species apparently related to Boletus subsan- 

 guineus Pk. from which it differs in its dry pileus with its 



