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Phyllosticta oakesiae Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Spots colorless, translucent, surrounded by an indistinct border 
from which a reddish stain extends into the leaf tissues, one-half 
to 1 cm broad; pycnidia dark brown, epiphyllous but visible from 
beneath, 100-200 mw in diameter; spores hyaline, grumous or guttu- 
late, elliptic to fusoid, 9-22 by 5-7 p. 
On languishing leaves of Uvularia (Oakesia) sessi- 
lifolia Linn. Karner, Albany county. H. D. House, no. 14.278, 
October 8, 1914. Type in the herbarium of the New York State 
Museum. 
Phyllosticta orobella Sacc. 
On languishing leaves of the Beach pea, Lathyrus mari- 
timus (Linn.) Bigel. Orient Point, Long Island. Roy Latham, 
September 11, 1911. New to America. The spores are 2-guttulate 
and 7-11 by 3 pm. . 
Placosphaeria celtidis Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Stromata scattered, lenticel like, 1-2 by 1 mm, pycnidia 3-8 in a 
stroma, cortical, erumpent through the cuticle, carbonous, conical, 
100-160 ms; spores issuing in cirrhi in the water, hyaline to amber, 
mostly 2-nucleate, 5-8 by 3-3.5 pu. 
On dead twigs of Celtis occidentalis Linn. Saugerties. 
Dr Charles H. Peck, May. Type in the herbarium of the New 
York State Museum. 
Puccinia tenuis (Schw.) Burrill, I. 
(Aecidium tenue Schw.) 
On leaves of Eupatoriumiageratoidés LUmnyeiver. 
Hannibal, Oswego county. H. D. House, no. 14.36, June 27, 1914. 
This species has also been collected in the Catskill mountains 
upon the same host by Dr Charles H. Peck, and near Ottawa, 
Canada, by Dr J. M. Macoun, no. 156, June 13, 1903. 
Septoria breviuscula Sacc. 
Eaton, Madison county, on languishing and dead leaves of 
Linnaea americana. H. D. House August) soqmom 
Cotype. 
Septoria lobeliae Pk. var. lobeliae-inflatae Sacc. 
Albany, on living leaves of Lobelia inflata. H. D. House, 
July 1913. Cotype. 
