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LIST OF NOVA SCOTIAN FUNGI—SOMERS. 287 
Lactarius piperatus Fries. 
L. vellerus Fries. 
L. sp.? All growing in open spaces in the woods. 
Gomphidius (glutinosus) var. roseus, F7., in woods. Not 
common. 
Cantharellus (cibarius) Fries., MeNab’s Island, Sept., 1885. 
Polyporei. 
Polyporus dryadeus Fr., dripping polyporus, on dead trees, 
Dutch Village. distils a gelatinous fluid which soon 
hardens. 
P. nigricans F’r., growing on birch trees, MeNab’s Island. 
P. Ignarius Fr., rusty hoof polyporus, on poplar. Deal’s 
woods, Dutch Village. 
Clavarinei. 
Clavaria botrytis Pevs., common in spruce groves, Sept. 
Sphzeronemei. 
Spheeropsis malorum Berk. Apple sphzropis, on windfalls. 
Dematiei. 
Cladosporium dendriticum Wally., on leaves and fruit ot 
apples, pears and other species of the Rosaceze. This 
cladosporium attracts attention to it because of its 
ravages in our apple orchards, many of our apples pro- 
duced during the past season being rendered by it 
almost unfit for merchantable purposes, more especially 
the variety known as Bishop Pippin, of which very 
few, if any, of this fruit offered in our market could be 
said to be free from it. As the life history of this 
fungus may be of interest to fruit growers, I subjoin 
in an abridged form a paper taken from the Gardener's 
Chronicle of November 28th, 1886, by G. W. Smith, of 
Dunstable, England, in which he says: “The worst 
form of cracking in Apples and Pears is caused by a 
fungus named Claudosporium dendriticum, Wall. It 
not only attacks the fruit and causes serious cracking, 
but in spring it grows upon the leaves and forms black 
dentritic spots (arborescent) a quarter of an inch or 
more across. The fungus also attacks all parts of the. 
