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Annual Report of the State Botanist. 27 



Phoma CandoUei, Sacc. 

 Leaves of box, Buxus sempervirens. Patcliogue. August. 



Haplosporella Ailanthi, E. & E. 



Dead bark of Ailanthus glandulosus. Lyndon ville. May. 6". E. 

 Fair man. 



Diplodia -ffisculi, Lev. 



Dead bark of horse chestnut, ^sculus Eippocastanum. Lyndon- 

 ville. Fairman. 



Leptostroma Polygonati, Lasch. 



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

 Menands. May. 



Didymosporium effusum, Schw. 



Dead bark of slij^pery elm, Ulmusfulva. Copake Iron "Works. June. 



Our plant differs somewhat from the type, and may be desig- 

 nated as 



Var. distinctum. 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 & K. 



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, Robinia viscosa. Sandlake. June. 



Melanconium magnum, Berk: 

 Dead bark of sugar maple, Acer saccharinum. Stark, St. Lawrence 



county. July 



Puccinia Eleocharidis, Arthur. 

 Living stems of Eleocharis palustris. Shore of Lake Champluin 

 near Plattsburgh. August. 



. Puccinia mammillata, Schrcet. 

 Living leaves of hedge bindweed, Polygonum dumetorum. Flatbush. 

 October. Zabriskie. 



