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Phyllosticta paviae Desm. 
(Phyllosticta sphaeropsoidea Ell.) 
(See figure 3) 
On living leaves of Aesculus hippocastanimee 
Catskill, August 18, 1915. This fungus is responsible for a very 
unsightly disfiguration of the foliage of horse chestnut trees in some 
localities. Certain trees near Catskill were so badly affected in 1915 
that by the end of August practically all the leaves were turning 
brown and many of them falling. Fortunately the disease does 
not appear to reoccur with equal abundance from year to year. 
Mr V. B. Stewart (Abs. in Phytopathology 4:399.: 1914) shows 
that the sexual stage of Phyllosticta pa viaiemiegeeee 
stadia aesculi Peck which occurs commonly upon the fallen 
petioles and leaves. 
Physalospora ceanothina (Peck) Sacc. 
(Sphaeria ceanothina Peck) 
On dead twigs of Ceanothus americanus Linn, 
Karner, Albany county. H. D. House, April 1915. The type was 
also collected at Karner by Professor Peck in May 1875. 
Poria attenuata Peck 
Karner, Albany county. H. D. House, no. 148, October 3, 1914. 
Sylvan Beach, Oneida county. H. D. House, October 12, 1915. 
Rather common on dead hardwood sticks on the ground in moist 
woods and thickets. 
Phyllosticta phomiformis Sacc. 
(See figure 4) 
This. fungus, common on the leaves ‘of QOuercmsmeaame 
prinus and prinoides, appears to be invariably associated 
with the insect galls caused by Cincticornia, and is therefore of a 
saprophytic nature, although occurring on living leaves. This 
species has been transferred to the genus Macrophoma, but all our 
specimens have spores much smaller than described by Saccardo 
and it is quite possible that they should not be referred to his species. 
Phoma galactis Dearness & House, n. sp. 
Pycnidia subcuticular, hemispheric, black, thickly scattered, 200 pu 
in diameter ; spores pyriform, hyaline, on basidia of about the length 
of the spores which are very small, oblong, 2%-3 x 1% p. 
Dead flowering stems of Galax aphylla L. Biltmore, N.C. 
H. D. House, May 1912, 
