30 Report of the State Botanist. 



Lycoperdon asterospermum -D. & M, 



North Greenbush and West Albany. 



Lycoperdon perlatum Pers. 

 Brewerton, Adirondack and Catskill mountains. August and 

 September. Following the illustrious Fries, I formerly included 

 this with L. gemmidtum, but it is so well marked by the ])revail- 

 ing form of the peridium and especially by the character of the 

 spines of the cortex that it seems best to consider it a distinct 



species. 



Lycoperdon Curtisii lierk. 



Ground by roadside. Guilderland. October. 



Didymium proximum B <l- C. 

 Fallen twigs and leaves of pine. Lake Pleasant. August. 



Physarum. contextum. Uost. 

 Bark of trees. Fulton Chain. August. 



Peronospora Linarise FcM. 

 Living stems and leaves of Canadian toadflax, Linaria Cana- 

 decisis. Kiverhead. July. This fungus is described as pure 

 white, but in our specimens the patches have a dirty-white or 

 grayish hue often with a slight violaceous tint. The long and 

 narrowly obovate conidia are quite characteristic. 



Phyllosticta Dioscoreae Cke. 

 Living leaves of yan>, Dioscorea mllosa. Riverhead. Jnly. 

 Var. grisea. Spots gray with a narrow reddish-brown margin; 

 perithecia epiphyllous, numerous, black ; spores globose or ovoid. 



Phoma vulgaris Sacc. 



Dead stems of long-fruited anemone, Anemone cyUjidrica. 



Delmar. June. The spores in our plant are slighth" smaller 



than in the type. 



Macrophoma versabilis n. sp. 



Perithecia scattered, irregular, globose or compressed and hys- 

 teriiform, erumpent or subsuperficial, black ; spores oblong-ellip- 

 tical, colorless, .0005 to .0006 in. long, .00025 to .0003 broad ; 

 sporophores generally shorter than the spores. 



