EEPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST. 15 



In our specimens only a few of the ovaries of a panicle are 

 ailected. These swell to an unusual size. They are green or 

 greenish externally, and are filled with a mass of olive-brown 

 spores collected in glomerules varying much in size and shape. 



Ovularia decipiens Sacc. 

 Living or languishing leaves of buttercups, Iianu?iculus acria. 

 Alcove. June and October. Shear. 



Cylindrosporium Padi Karst. 



Living leaves of cultivated plum, Prunus domeMca. Ilelder- 

 berg mountains. September. 



Some mycologists appear to have confused Septori'a cerasina 

 Peck, with this sjjecies, but the two are clearly distinct and may 

 easily be separated at a glance. In S. cerasina the spores ooze 

 out in a gelatinous mass or in tendrils; in this species they form 

 a white llocculent mass on the surface of the matrix as do other 

 species of this genus. 



Cladosporium carpophilum Tham. 



On peaches. Menands. August and September. The fungus 



forms small olive-green spots on the fruit. Sometimes these 



spots become confluent and form patches. They are often more 



numerous on one side of the peach than on the other, and the 



affected side fails to develop as rapidly as the other, giving the 



fruit a flattened or deformed appearance, and the flesh beneath 



the fungus is more tough and less succulent than the unaffected 



part. The fungus is, therefore, to bo classed among the injurious 



species. 



Dendryphium nodulosum Sacc. 



Dead stems of bleeding heart, Dicentra spectahilis. Menands. 

 April. 



The fungus bears some resemblance to IlelminthogjMrium 

 interseminatu7n, but is separable even by the naked eye, by 

 reason of its more ferruginous color. 



Coniothecium Rubi «. s/^ 

 Thinly effused, olive-green ; spores coalescing in glomerules 

 varying much in size and in the number of component spores or 

 cells, separate spores .00u6 to .0007 in. broad, glomerules about 

 .0016 in. broad. 



