30 Annual Report of the State Botanist. 



Diplodia Dulcamarse, Fcld. 

 Dead stems of bittersweet, Solamun dulcamara. Sancllake. Aug. 

 The spores are at first simple, and in this condition the fungus 

 might be referred to the genus Sphseropsis. 



Hendersonia Mali, Thum. 

 Living leaves of apple tree. Phoenicia, Ulster county. Sept. In 

 our specimens the perithecia are rather smaller than in the type. 



Septoria Trichostematis, n. sjx 



Spots mostly large, but one or two on a leaf, brownish-gray, 

 generally with a broad purplish margin ; perithecia epiphyllous, 

 minute, .003 to .004 in. broad, black ; spores bacillary, slender, 

 straight or curved, .0012 to .0016 in. long. 



Living leaves of blue curls, Trichostema dichotomum. Manor. Aug. 



Sacidium lignarium, n. sp. 



Perithecia numerous, scattered or aggregated, thin, membranous, 

 clypeate, astomous, quadrangular or pentangular, black, easily separ- 

 able from the matrix ; spores minute, oblong, colorless or faintly 

 colored, .00016 in. long, .00008 broad. 



Bottom of a basswood barrel in a cellar. Flatbush, Long Island. 

 April. Rev. J. L. Zabriskie. 



Aposphseria aranea, n. sp. 



Perithecia scattered or gregarious, superficial, astomous, subglo- 

 bose, submembranous, rupturing irregularly, black, involved in and 

 generally seated on pale webby filaments ; spores .00012 to .00016 in. 

 long, about .0001 broad. 



With the preceding. Zabriskie. 



Vermicularia truncata, Sckw. 

 Old bean pods. Menands. Oct. 



Vermicularia Wallrothii, Sacc. 

 Kind of squash, Gucurbita melopepo. Menands. Sept. 



Dinemasporium hispidulum, Sacc. 

 Dead wood of Viburnum dentatum. West Albany. May. 



Gloeosporium lagenarium, Sacc. & Roum. 

 Rind of squash, Gucurbita melojjejjo. Menands. Nov. 



Gloeosporium Physalosporse, Gar. 

 Ripening grapes. Menands. Oct. 



