Report of the State Botanist. 21 



Cytospora ambiens Sacc. 



Dead stems of raspberry, Rubus strigosus. Menands, Albany 

 county. April. 



Cytospora carbonacea Fr. 



Dead branches of elm, TJlmus Americana. Elizabethtown. 

 May. 



The mass of ejected spores is bUck when dry. 



Septomyxa persicina ( Fres) Sacc. 



Kind of squashes. Menands. January. 



Yar. nigricans n. var. Forming large irregular black patches ; 

 heaps minute ; spores oblong, round( d at each end, more or less 

 narrowed in the middle, often two to four- nucleate, colorless, 

 .0003 to .OuOS in. long, .00012 to .00016 broad, oozing out and 

 forming a pale wine-colored or peach colored tendril or mass. 



Discosia magna n. sp. 



Perithecia gregarious, suborbicular, large, .014 to .024 in. broad, 

 black, opaque, even or obsoletely rugulose, ostiolate, rarely con- 

 fluent ; spores oblon^-fusoid, curved, obscurely two to three- 

 septate, .0005 to .0008 in. long, the bristle at each end .0004 to 

 .0005 in. long. 



YiiW^niTViii of di&\i,Fraxinus Americana. Elizabethtown. May. 



The species is easily known by its large opaque perithecia and 

 simple or obscurely septate spores. 



Septoria Pisi. West. 

 Living pea leaves. Adirondack mountains. August. 



Septoria Scutellariae Thum. 

 Living leaves of scull-cap, Scutellaria galericulata. Adirondack 

 mountains. July. 



Septoria conspicua E. <& M. 



Living leaves of fringed loosestrife, Steironema ciliatum. Long 

 Island. July. 



