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NEW OR INTERESTING SPECIES OF FUNGI IV 

 a Fungi New to the State Flora 



Camarosporium robiniae (West.) Sacc. 

 Of frequent occurrence on dead twigs of Robinia. Collected at 

 North Bay, Oneida county, on Robinia viscosa. H. D. 

 House, June 26, 19 15, and at Orient, Long Island, on Robinia 

 pseud o-acacia Linn, by Roy Latham, no. yoz, February 4, 

 1915. Associated with Cucurbitaria elongata. 



Cercospora lathyri Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Spots bluish gray and finally arid, limited by the veinlets and 

 developing a narrow reddish boundary, 2-4 by 2-3 mm in extent. 



Hyphae very short on numerous, evenly scattered, brownish 

 bases, amphigenous. 



Conidia more abundant on the upper surface, straight or slightly 

 curved, continuous or obscurely 1-2-septate, 40-70 by 2f-3| n. 



On living leaves of Lathyrus maritimus (L.) Bigel. 

 Wading River and Eastport. C. H. Peck, August, September. 

 Type in the herbarium of the New York State Museum. 



Cercospora microstigma Sacc. 

 On dead or dying leaves of Carex arctata Boott, Pecks- 

 port, Madison county. H. D. House, July 15, 191 5. Also collected 

 by Doctor Peck on Carex plantaginea Lam. at Taberg, 

 Oneida county. The species is doubtless common on many Carices, 

 and Professor Dearness records it also on C. g r a n u 1 a r i s, 

 C. albursina and C. laxiflora. 



Cercospora pastinacae (Sacc.) Peck 

 On leaves of Pastinaca sativa L., Portage, N. Y. C. H. 

 Peck, August 12th, (year not indicated). -Professor Peck raised 

 this from a variety of Cercospora apii Fres. to specific 

 rank after an examination of material collected by J. M. Bates in 

 Nebraska on the same host. Its occurrence in New York has never 

 been recorded by Doctor Peck and this collection of his from Portage 

 was among some undetermined material. 



Coryne sarcoides (Jacq.) Tul. 

 On decayed logs of pine and chestnut. Karner, Albany county. 

 H. D. House, November 2, 1916 (determined by F. J. Seaver). 



