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this species. The spots are centrally punctured and epee to 
have been produced by the stings of insects. 
PHYLLOSTICTA POPULINA, Sacc. v. PARVA n. var. 
Living or languishing leaves of necklace poplar, Populus mon- 
alifera. Menands. October. 
Spots very small, orbicular, white, with a brown border; peri- 
thecia one to tour on a spot. 
PHYLLOSTICTA SPERMOIDES, N. sp. 
Spots suborbicular, brown or cinereous with a brown border, 
sometimes confluent ; perithecia minute, .0014 to .0025 inch broad, 
numerous, hypophyllous, blackish ; spores minute cylindrical, .0002 
inch long. 
Living leaves of wild grape vine, Viizs, ripariva. Gansevoort. 
September. 
PHYLLOSTICTA FAGINEA, N. sp. 
Spots suborbicular, small, often seriate or subconfluent, and 
arranged in rows parallel to the veins of the leaf, cinereous or red- 
dish-gray, with a reddish-brown border or wholly reddish-brown, 
subferruginous beneath ; perithecia few, epiphyllous, minute, .003 
inch broad, black; spores ovate or elliptical, .0003 to .0004 inch 
long, .0002 to .00025 broad. 
Living leaves of beech, Fagus ferruginea. Argusville and 
Elizabethtown. September. ; 
PHYLLOSTICTA VAGANS, N. sp. 
Spots none; perithecia minute, .003 to .0035 inch broad, 
amphigenous, numerous, occupying the whole leaf, black; spores 
very minute, spermatoid, .00012 inch long, .00004 broad, some- 
times oozing out and forming a white globule. 
Dead leaves of Smilacina racemosa. Conklingville. September. 
This is a very anomalous species. But for the very short 
minute spores, it would accord better with Septoria than Phyl- 
losticta. 
PHYLLOSTICTA FATISCENS, N. sp. 
Spots rather large, suborbicular, pallid, generally marked by one 
or more elevated concentric lines, at length cracking around the 
margin and separating, wholly or in part, from the uninjured 
tissues of the leaf; perithecia minute, .004 inch broad, epiphyllous, 
