REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST IQI5 A3 
Cercospora chionea E. & K. 
Pyudotville, ‘On leavessof (Gercrs japonica. DriG: E. 
Fairman, August 1904. The spores are clavate and shorter than 
given in the description of C. chionea, but appear to be closer 
H@anat species than to C. cercidicola. 
Cercospora longispora Peck 
Sylvan Beach, Oneida county. On Lupinus perennis 
inns H. -D. House, July 3, rors. 
Cercospora rhoina C. & E. 
Near Schroeppel’s Bridge, Oswego county. On leaves of Rhus 
Pepati¢na L. H. D. House, August 13,1015. 
Dothidella vacciniicola Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Stromata nodular, subglobose, I-2 mm in diameter at the base, 
1-2 mm high, dark brown, reaching to the base of the cortex, 
becoming hollow, subcarbonaceous. 
Ascigerous locules peripherical, mostly but not wholly in a single 
layer, 6 or 7 to a mm, their position apparent in a surface view; 
ostiola punctiform 120-150 mw wide, 150 , deep. 
Asci linear to subclavate, tips subconnivent in the locules, 
75-90 x 6-7 p, paraphyses linear, gO-1i0 p. 
Sporidia hyaline, nearly uniseriate, somewhat overlapping, uni- 
septate, 10-12 x 5-6 up. 
Parasitic on living twigs of Vaccinium atrococcum 
(A. Gray) Heller, taken from herbarium plants collected at Bilt- 
more, N. C. H. D. House, May 1912. 
Dothidella vaccinii Rostr. inhabits leaves and has 
larger, appendaged sporidia. 
Dendrodochium pallidum Peck 
(Bul. Torrey Club 11, p. 50. Sacc. Syll. XI, p. 646) 
The host for this species is given by Professor Peck as “ rotten 
wood.” An examination of the original specimens collected near 
Ottawa, Canada, by Professor Macoun shows that the host was 
decorticated and somewhat decayed maple (Acer). 
Dendrophoma cephalanthi Peck 
On dead branches’of Cephalanthus occidentalis Lb. 
at Sylvan Beach, Oneida county. H. D. House, May Io and June 
21,1915. 
