REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST IQI4 29 
Nothomyces nigricans Sacc. 
Near Oneida, Madison county, on dead bark of Carpinus 
faroliniana. HH: DD, House, July 22,1013. Cotype. 
Phyllosticta baccharidis Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Spots flesh colored to pale ferruginous, subcircular, determined by 
the large veinlets, usually visible on both surfaces of the leaf and 
similar, but in some cases showing on the upper surface only, with 
a very distinct concolorous raised border, tending to be deciduous, 
3-8 by 2-6 mm; pycnidia dark, amphigenous but more numerous 
on the upper surface of the spot, as many as thirty to a spot, round 
perforate but sometimes hysteriiform, 50-115 pw, mostly about 75 pw 
in diameter; spores hyaline, reniform, usually nucleate at each 
end, 4-6 by 3 np. 
On iivine “leaves, of Baceharis, halimitfolia “Linn: 
Orient Point, Long Island. Roy Latham, August 14, 1911. Type 
in the herbarium of the New York State Museum. 
Phyllosticta chenopodii Sacc. 
Albany, on living leaves of Chenopodium album Linn, 
H. D. House, October 20, 1914. Apparently new to America as 
the specimens distributed in the North American Fungi, no. 1158, 
wader this tame are Septoria atriplictrs.: 
Phyllosticta medeolae Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Spots reddish or gray-red areas beginning at the tips of the leaves 
and extending in some cases over half of the leaf; pycnidia black, 
sulcate, epiphyllous, scattered, about 100 mw in diameter; spores 
hyaline, sometimes guttulate, linear-oblong, 12-15 by 2-3 up. 
On living or languishing leaves of Medeola virginiana 
Linn. near Albany. H. D. House, no. 14.137, September 12, 1914. 
Phyllosticta lantanoides Peck 
Albany, on living leaves of Viburnum cassinoides 
Linn. H. D. House, September 12, 1914. Originally described 
from Caroga, on leaves of Viburnum alnifolium. 
Phyllosticta nyssae Cooke 
Karner, Albany county, on living leaves of Nyssa sylvatica 
Marsh. H. D. House, October 3, 1914. Apparently new to the 
State. 
