REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST FOR I924 ^J 



Diatrypella decorata Nitschke 



Nevvcomb, Essex county, on dead branches of B e t u 1 a 1 u t e a 

 Michx.f. H. D. House, June 8, 1922. Doctor Peck recorded this on 

 the same host species from Sandlake. 



Diatrypella discoidea (Cooke & Peck) Sacc. 



On dead limbs of Bet u la papyrifera Marsh. Indian 

 Pass, Essex county. H. D. House, July 15, 1923. Compared with 

 material of D. favacea, D. betulina and D. decorata 

 (all on Betula), which has been passed upon as authentic for the 

 species named, by either Ellis. Farlow, Peck or Rehm. This com- 

 parison indicates that there is some confusion in regard to the 

 status of these four species. The only clause in the description of 

 D. discoidea discrepant with the Indian Pass material is that 

 according to the description the large orbicular .stromata have small 

 perithecia and small, scarcely exserted ostiola, while the ostiola in 

 the Indian Pass collection are distinct and sulcate. 



Diatrypella quercina (Pers.) Nits. 



East Greenbush, Rensselaer county, on dead branches of C r a- 

 t a e g u s sp. H. D. House, May 23, 1923. There is a collection 

 by Peck in the State herbarium from the same locality and on the 

 same host genus. Doctor Peck has also collected this on Crataegus 

 at Elizabethtown. Essex county. 



Valsa ceratophora Tul. 



Albany, on dead stems of Cephalanthus occidentalis 

 L. H . D. House, November 5, 1922. 



Anthostoma amplispora (Cooke) E. & E. 



On dead branches of Pruuus virginiana L. Albany. 

 H. D. House, December 28, 1919. Cooke's description of this 

 species is not very complete. It states that the perithecia in a 

 stroma are few and rather large. Some of the stroma have twelve 

 or more perithecia. but with the exception that the perithecia can 

 not be called relatively large, there are stromata, perithecia, asci 

 and sporidia agreeing with his description. The type was said to be 

 "on bark, probably of Ouercus, United States." 



