•'3*; 

 Annual Report of the State Botanist. 27 



Living leaves of fowl meadow grasS, Poa serotina. Wilmurt lake. 

 July. 



This and the two preceding species are perhaps referable to the 

 genus Cylindrosporium on account of their simple spores and short 

 hyphae. 



Ramularia Heraclei Sacc. 



Living leaves of cow parsnip, Heracleum lanatum. Morehouse- 

 ville. Jiily. 



Cercosporella Veratri n. sp. 



(Plate 4, figs. 7 and 8. > 



Spots suborbicular or elliptical, blackish, slightly frosted by the 

 epiphyllous subfusiform, mostly triseptate colorless spores, which 

 terminate at one end in a long slender tapering almost hair-like 

 point ; hyphae very short, almost obsolete ; spores .002 to .004 in. 

 long, .00016 to .0002 broad in the widest part. 



Languishing leaves of Indian poke, Veratrum viride. More- 

 houseville. July. 



Bispora eflfusa n. sp. 



(Plate4, figs, l5toi7.) 



Effused in a black somewhat velvety stratum ; hyphae erect, 

 simple, colored, forming chains of spores ; spores oblong, unisep- 

 tate, slightly constricted at the septum, .0005 to .0006 in. long, 

 .00016 to .0002 broad. 



Decorticated wood of sugar maple, Acer saccharinum. Adiron- 

 dack mountains. 



Cladosporium entoxylinum Cd. 

 Decorticated wood of spruce, Picea nigra. Wilmurt lake, July. 



Septonema episphaerioum n. sp. 



Tufts confluent, blackish-brown; hyphne and chains of spores 

 often densely fasciculate, .005 to .006 in. long ; spores variable, oblong 

 or cylindrical, one to three septate, .0005 to .0012 in. long, .0002 to 

 .0003 broad, colored or subhyaline. 



On effete Diatrype stigma. Morehouseville. July. 



Apparently allied to S. bisporoides, from which it diff(>is in its 

 larger spores and in its densely fasciculate mode of growth. 



Coniothecium effusum Cd. 

 Decaying chestnut wood. Conklingville. September. 



