94 Thirty-eighth Repokt on the State Museum. 



Geaster striatus, DC. 



Sandy soil. Karner. Sept. 



When the external peridium first opens and expands the inner pe- 

 ridium appears to be globose and sessile, but as the plant matures and 

 dries the inner peridium is seen to be narrowed below and raised on a 

 short pedicel. 



Phyllosticta Labruscae, Thum. 



Living leaves of grapevines, Vitis Labrusca. Highland Mills, Orange 

 county. July. 



This differs from P. viticola in its more numerous, larger and more 

 prominent perithecia and in its larger spores. 



Phyllosticta Epigaeae, n. sp. 



Spots large, irregular, brown or reddish-brown ; perithecia minute 

 .0045 to .0055 in. broad, covered by the epidermis, erumpent, epiphyllous, 

 black; spores elliptical, colorless, .0003 in. long, .00016 broad. 



Living leaves of trailing arbutus, Epigcea repens. Caroga. July. 



Phyllosticta lantanoidis, n. sp. 



Spots rather large, suborbicular, cinereous, sometimes with a brown 

 margin ; perithecia minute, .004 in. broad, slightly prominent, epiphyl- 

 lous, black; spores elliptical, colorless, binucleate, .00025 ^o .0003 

 in. long, .00016 broad. 



Living leaves of hobble bush, Vihurntim lantanoides. Caroga. July. 



This differs from P. tinea Sacc. in the larger size and binucleate 

 character of the spores. 



Phyllosticta Podophylli, Winter. 



Living leaves of mandrake. Podophyllum peltatum. ' Albany. June. 

 Externally this resembles Ascospora Podophylli Curt., but the spores 

 are very different. 



Ascochyta Cassandrae, n. sp. 



Spots suboroicular or irregular, reddish-brown or grayish with a red- 

 dish-brown margin; perithecia epiphyllous, minute, erumpent, blackish; 

 spores oblong-fusiform, acute at each end, uniseptate, colorless, .0004 

 to .00065 in. long, .00012 to .00016 broad. 



Living leaves of leather-leaf, Cassandra calyculata. Adirondack 

 mountains. June and July. 



Ascochyta colorata, n. sp. 



Plate 2, figs. 9 and 10. 



Spots indefinite, often confluent, red with a brownish center, paler on 

 the lower surface ; perithecia minute, .004 to .005 in. broad, black ; 

 spores oblqng, somewhat pointed at one or both ends, straight or curved, 

 slightly constricted in the middle, obscurely uniseptate, colorless, .0007 

 to .001 in. long, .0003 to 00035 broad. 



Living leaves of strawberry, Fragaria Virginiana. West Albany. Aug. 



This differs from A. Fragariw Sacc. in the color of the spots and in 

 the size and character of the spores. 



