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Geaster striatus, DC. 
Sandy soil. Karner. Sept. Bi cs 
When the external peridium first opens and expands the inner pe- 
ridium appears to be globose and sessile, but as the plant matures and 
dries the inner peridium is seen to be narrowed below and raised ona 
short pedicel. 
Phyllosticta Labruscz, Thum. 
Living leaves of grapevines, Vitis Labrusca. Highland Mills, Orange 
county. July. 
This differs from P. viticola in its more numerous, larger and more 
prominent perithecia and in its larger spores. 
Phyllosticta Epigzee, 7. sp. 
Spots large, irregular, brown or reddish-brown ; perithecia minute 
.0045 to .0055 in. broad, covered by the epidermis, erumpent, epiphyllous, 
black; spores elliptical, colorless. .0003 in. long, .oo016 broad. 
Living leaves of trailing arbutus, Hpigwa repens. Caroga. July. 
Phyllosticta lantanoidis, n. sp. 
Spots rather large, suborbicular, cinereous, sometimes with a brown 
margin ; perithecia minute, .oo4 in. broad, slightly prominent, epiphyl- 
lous, black; spores elliptical, colorless, binucleate, .o0025 to .0003 
in. long, .coo16 broad. 
Living leaves of hobble bush, Viburnwm lantanoides. Caroga. July. 
This differs from P. tinea Sacc. in the targer size and binucleate 
character of the spores. 
Phyllosticta Podophylli, Winter. 
Living leaves of mandrake, Podophyllum peltatum. Albany. June. 
Externally this resembles Ascospora Podophylli Curt., but the spores 
are very different. 
Ascochyta Cassandra, x. sp. 
Spots suboro.cular or irregular, reddish-brown or grayish with a red- 
dish-brown margin; perithecia epiphyllous, minute, erumpent, blackish; 
spores oblong-fusiform, acute at each end, uniseptate, colorless, .coo4 
to .00065 in. long, .coo12 to .ooo16 broad. 
Living leaves of leather-leaf, Cassandra calyculata. Adirondack 
mountains, June and July. 
Ascochyta colorata, 2. sp. 
Plate 2, figs. 9 and 10. ~ 
Spots indefinite, often confluent, red with a brownish center, paler on 
the lower surface ; perithecia minute, .oo4 to.oo5 in. broad, black ; 
spores oblong, somewhat pointed at one or both ends, straight or curved, ~ 
slightly constricted in the middle, obscurely uniseptate, colorless, .0007 
to .oo1 in. long, .0003 to 00035 broad. 
Living leaves of strawberry, /ragaria Virginiana. West Albany. Aug. 
This differs from A. Fragarie Sacc, in the color of the spots and in 
the size and character of the spores. 
