30 Annual Report of the State Botanist. 



Pleospora Asparagi Reh. 



Dead stems of asparagus, Asparagus officinalis. Menands. April. 

 This species appears scarcely to differ from P. herharum except 

 in the fewer septa of the spores. 



Lophiostoina vagrans Fab. 

 Dead stems of Lonicera tartarica. Lyndonville. July. Fairman. 



Stictis minuscula Karst. 

 Dead twigs of sprace, Picea nigra. Redfield. July. 



Pseudopeziza Pyri n. sp. 



Cups scattered, minute, .014 to .021 in. broad, hypophyllous, 

 erumpent, surrounded by the laciniately ruptured epidermis, 

 brownish when moist, blackish when dry, the margin incurved; 

 hymenium whitish or grayish-white; asci subcyHndrical, .002 to 

 .0024 in. -long; spores biseriate, oblong, straight or slightly curved, 

 colorless, .0004 to .0005 in. long. 



Fallen leaves of mountain ash, Pyrus samhucifoUa. Cascade- 

 ville, Essex county. June. 



Saccharomyces Betulae Fk. & Fat. 



(Plate2, flgs. I6andl7.) 



Conidia variable, elliptical, oblong or subcj'lindrical, often form- 

 ing submoniliform strings of cells .0003 to .0008 in. long, .00016 

 broad, intermingled with slender mycelial threads, the whole 

 forming a thin whitish gelatinous stratimi. 



Sap moistened cut surface of a birch stump, Betula lutea. New 

 Baltimore, Greene county. May. 



This is a curious species, apparently related to S. alhicofiis, but 

 differing from it in habitat and spore dimensions, and it is also 

 peculiar and aberrant in having distinct hyphae. 



(D) 

 EEMAEKS AND OBSEEYATIONS 

 Thalictrum purpurascens L. var. ceriferum Aust. 

 Fishkill mountains. June. 



Cimicifuga racemosa Nutt. 

 Common in the Highlands and in the southwestern part of the 

 State. It is rare in the eastern and northern parts. 



