REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST IQI5 49 
Phoma verbascicola (Schw.) Sacc. 
Onidead stems of Verbascum thapsus L. -Peckspoit, 
Madison county. H. D. House, July 2, 1915. Also collected at 
Sand lake by Doctor Peck. 
Phyllosticta apocyni Trelease 
On living leaves of Apocynum androsaemifolium 
L. Green’s pond, near Leeds, Greene county. H. D. House, August 
17, 1915. Also collected on the same host at Mechanicville by 
Doctor Peck. 
Phyllosticta liriodendri Cooke 
Along the edge of a woodland north of Liverpool, Onondaga 
county, there was noticed on August 12th, a yellow poplar tree 
(Liriodendron tulipifera L.) upon which the majority 
of the leaves were badly disfigured by insect galls and spots upon 
which appeared a Phyllosticta. About half of the circular brown 
spots were clearly caused by Phyllosticta liriodendri 
Cooke (P. circumvallata Wint.). Most of the remain- 
ing spots were blisterlike galls with considerable dead tissue sur- 
rounding them and caused by the gall midge Thecodiplosis 
liriodendri Osten Sacken (det. Felt), and upon these spots 
was a frequent occurrence of Phyllosticta macrospora 
E. & E., with sporules 18-22 x 6-8 p. One spot showed the presence 
of a Sphaeropsis evidently related to Phyllosticta macro- 
spora, while another spot showed a Septogloeum with spores 
33-40x4 mp. It is interesting to note that Phyllosticta 
macrospora was also found at Black lake near Catskill on 
similar spots apparently caused by a gall midge on leaves of Vitis 
iLporausca (August 2T, 1015). 
Phyllosticta variabilis Pk. 
Jamesville, Onondaga county. On leaves of Rubus odora-. 
tus. H. D. House, August 9, 1915. Professor Dearness, who 
compared these specimens with the types of P. variabilis Pk. 
and P. bicolor Pk., regards all three as essentially the same, 
although the effect of the fungus upon the leaf tissue seems to be 
different in each case and the Jamesville specimens have a wider 
range of spore measurements, namely, 5-8 x 3 p. 
