24 Report of the State Botanist. 



Clavaria Herveyi n. sp. 



Gregarious or subcaespitose, simple or with a few branches, 

 often compressed or irregular, scarcely one inch high, golden- 

 yellow, sometimes brownish at the apex, flesh white, branches 

 when present short, simple or terminating in few or many more 

 or less acute denticles ; spores globose, .00<'3 in. broad, minutely 

 roughened ; mycelium white. 



Ground under hemlock trees. Orono, Maine. September. 

 2^. L. Hervey. 



Allied to G.fastigiata and C. muscoides but distinct from both 

 by its more irregular and less branching character and by its 

 larger spores. 



Exobasidium Cassiopes n. sp. 



Attacking the young shoots and all their leaves, thickening and 

 enlarging them ; spores oblong, .0005 in. long. 



On Cassiope Mertensiana. Olympia, Washington. Henderson. 



The galls are very variable in color, and may be either pinkish, 

 red, purple or whitish purple. 



Nidularia Candida n. sp. 



Peridium externally tomentose, white, becoming cup-shaped, 

 within glabrous, snowy- white, the mouth wide, entire ; peridiola 

 numerous, .035 to .05 in. broad, lenticular, brown, marked with 

 numerous diverging and intercrossing blackish lines ; spores 

 broadly elliptical, .0003 in. long, .0002 broad. 



Ground among mosses. Olympia, Washington. July. 

 Henderson. 



All the peridia seen were fully open, and therefore their shape 

 and character when young remain unknown. The size and shape 

 of the native plant are similar to those of CriLcihuluin vulgare. 

 The peridiola are smaller than in that species and of a darker 

 color. The absence of the funiculus places the species in the 

 genus Nidularia. 



Septoria Peraphylli n. sp. 



Spots rather large, 2 to 4 lines broad, one or two on a leaf, 

 suborbicular, reddish bro\vn, sometimes with a whitish center 

 above ; perithecia epiphyllous, slightly prominent, black, shining; 

 spores subcylindrical, straight or somewhat curved, or subflexuous 



