Annual Report of the State Botanist, '27 



Phoma CandoUei, Sacc. 

 Leaves of box, Buxus sempermrens. Patchogue. August. 



Haplosporella Ailanthi, E. & E. 



Dead bark of Ailanthus glandulosus. Lyndouville. May. C. E. 

 Fairman. 



Diplodia JEsculi, Lev. 



Dead bark of horse chestnut, JEsculus Hvppocastanum. Lyndon- 

 ville. Fairman. 



Leptostroma Polygonati, Lasch. 



Dead stems of giant Solomon's seal, Polygonaium giganteum. 

 Menands. May. 



Didymosporium effusum, Schw. 



Dead bark of slippery elm, Ulmusfulva. Copake Iron Works. June. 



Our plant differs somewhat from the type, and may be desig- 

 nated as 



Var. distinctum. Heaps rotund, erumpent, distinct; spores oblong, 



oblong-ovate or elliptical, uniseptate, rarely biseptate, colored, .0014 



to .0018 in. long, .0006 to .0008 broad, oozing out and staining the 



matrix. 



Septoria Helianthi, E & K. 



Living leaves of sunflower, Helianthus annuus. Rainbow. August. 

 Our plant is a variety in which the perithecia are amphigenous and 

 the spots by confluence are very large and irregular. 



Septoria thecicola, B. & Br. 



Capsules and pedicels of moss, Polytrichum juniperinum. Sevey. 



July. 



Cytospora orthospora, B. & G. 



Dead branches of clammy locust, Bobinia viscosa. Sandlake. June. 



Melanconium magnum, Berk. 



Dead bark of sugar maple, Acer saccharinum. Stark, St. Lawrence 



county. July. 



Puccinia Eleocharidis, Arthur. 



Living stems of Eleocharis palustris. Shore of Lake Champlain , 

 near Plattsburgh. August. 



Puccinia mammillata, Schroet. 

 Living leaves of hedge bindweed. Polygonum dumetorum. Flatbush. 

 October. Zabriskie. 



