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Phoma CandoUei, Sacc. 

 Leaves of box, Buxus sempervirens. Patchogue. August. 



Haplosporella Ailanthi, E. & E. 



Dead bark of Ailanthus glandulosus. Lyndonville. May. 0. JS. 

 Fairvian. 



Diplodia JEsculi, Lev. 



Dead bark of horse chestnut, JEsculus Hippocastanum. Lyndon- 

 ville. Fairman. 



Leptostroma Polygonati, Lasch. 



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

 Menands. May. 



Didymosporium effusum, Schiv. 



Dead bark of slipj^ery elm, Ulmuafulva. Copake Iron Works. June. 



Our plant diffei's somewhat from the type, and may be desig- 

 nated as - 



Var. didinclum. 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 & E. 



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. & C. 

 Dead branches of clammy locust, Rolnnia vucosa. Sandlake. June. 



Melanconiuni raagnum, Bei^. 



Dead bark of sugar maple, Actir >iaccharinum. Stark, St. Lawrence 

 county. July. 



Puccinia Eleocharidis, A'i thur. 



Living stems of Eleocharu palustris. Shore of Lake Champlain 

 near Plattsburgh. August. 



Puccinia mammillata, Schroet. 

 Living leaves of hedge bindweed, Polygonum dumetorum. Flatbush. 

 October. Zabriskie. 



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