30 Report of the State Botanist. 



Lycoperdon asterospermum. 1). t& 31. 



North Greenbush and West Albany. 



Lycoperdon perlatum Pers. 

 Urewerton, Adirondack and Catskill mountains. August and 

 September. Following the illustrious Fries, I formerly included 

 this with Z. gemmatum., but it is so well marked by the prevail- 

 ing form of the peridium and especially by the character of the 

 spines of the cortex that it seems best to consider it a distinct 



species. 



Lycoperdon Curtisii Berh. 



Ground by roadside. Guilderland. October. 



Didymium proximum B S C. 

 Fallen twigs and leaves of pine. Lake Pleasant. August. 



Physarum. contextum Host. 

 Bark of trees. Fulton Chain. August. 



Peronospora Linarise FcM. 

 Living stems and leaves of Canadian toadflax, Linaria Cana- 

 densis, lliverhcad. July. This fungus is described as pure 

 white, but in our specimens the patches have a dirty-white or 

 grayish hue often with a slight violaceous tint. The long and- 

 narrowly obovate conidia are quite characteristic. 



Phyllosticta Dioscoreae Cke. 

 Living leaves of yam, Dlosoorea villosa. Riverhead. July. 

 Var. grisea. Spots gray with a narrow reddish-brown margin; 

 perithecia epiphyllous, numerous, black ; spores globose or ovoid. 



Phoma vulgaris Sacc. 

 Dead stems of long-fruited anemone, Anemone cylindrica. 

 Del mar. June. The spores in our plant are slightly smaller 

 than in the type. 



Macrophoma versabilis n. sp. 

 Perithecia scattered, irregular, globose or compressed and hys- 

 teriiform, erumpent or subsuperficJal, black ; spores oblong-ellip- 

 tical, colorless, .0005 to .0006 in. long, .00025 to .0003 broad ; 

 sporophores generally shorter than the spores. 



