Report OF THE STATE BOTANIsT. 95 
Phoma Phytolacce, B. & C. 
Dead stems of poke weed, Phytolacca decandra. Albany. June. 
In our specimens the spores are a little longer than the dimensions 
given in the description of the species and the perithecia are sometimes 
slightly compressed or subhysteriiform. 
Phoma elevatum, 2. sp. 
Perithecia numerous, small, rotund, oval or hysteriiform, sunk in the 
matrix but occupying small elevations or ridges, black; spores ovate or 
subelliptical, colorless, .oo03 in. long, .coo16 broad. 
Decorticated wood of deciduous trees. Adirondack mountains. June. 
The marked feature of the species and one suggestive of the name is 
the position of the perithecia. Each one occupies a minute ridge or 
pustular elevation of the wood. 
Phoma Pruni, 2. sp. 
Perithecia small, slightly prominent, subconical, at first covered by the 
epidermis, then erumpent, black; spores oblong-elliptical or subfusiform, 
binucleate, hyaline, .00035 to .o00045 in. long, .ooo12 to .ooo16 broad, 
supported on equally long or longer sporophores. 
Dead branches of choke cherry, Prunus Virginiana, Karner. June. 
Phoma albifructum, 7. sp. 
Perithecia numerous, large, .o2 to .03 in. broad, conical or subhemis- 
pherical, sometimes irregular and two or three confluent, erumpent, 
black ; spores oblong-fusiform, acute at each end, two to four-nucleate, 
colorless, .00065 to .c0085 in. long, .o002 to .coo25 broad, oozing out 
and forming a white globule. 
Dead bark of maple, Acer rwbrwm. Karner. June. 
The perithecia and spores are unusually large for a Phoma and would 
seem to justify Prof. Saccardo’s proposed genus Macrophoma. 
Sphzropsis ribicola, C. ¢ £. 
Dead stems of fides floridum. Bethlehem, Albany county. May. 
Sphzropsis alnicola, 7. sp. 
Perithecia numerous, .0014 to .co2 in. broad, prominent, hemispheri- 
cal, erumpent, sometimes confluent, forming black patches , spores ob- 
long, colored, 0006 to .00095 in. long, -00035 to .0004 broad. 
Dead branches of alder. West Albany. Apr. 
S. Alnz C. & E. has smaller spores and inhabits living branches, 
Appendicularia, gen. nov. 
Plate 3, figs. 1-4. 
Perithecium thin, delicate, rostrate, supported on a filamentous pedicel 
_ and accompanied by an appendage at its base. Entomophilous. 
This genus has been formed to receive the single species here de- 
scribed. Its name is suggested by the appendicular organ at the base of 
the perithecium and supported with it by the common pedicel. 
