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Report of tee State Botanist. 21 



Cytospora ambiens Sacc. 



Dead stems of raspberry, Buhus strigosus. Menands, Albany 

 county. April. 



Cytospora carbonacea Fr. 



Dead branches of elm, ZJlinus Americana, Elizabethtown. 

 May. 



The mass of ejected spores is black when dry. 



Septomyxa persicina ( Fres) Sacc. 



Kind of squashes. Menands. January. 



Yar. nigricans n. var. Forming large irregular black patches ; 

 heaps minute ; spores oblong, roundt d at each end, more or less 

 narrowed in the middle, olten two to four- nucleate, colorless, 

 .0003 to .0U05 in. long, .00012 to .00016 broad, oozing out and 

 forming a pale wine-colored or peach-colored tendril or mass. 



Discosia magna n. sp. 



Perithecia gregarious, suborbicular, large, .014 to .024 in. broad, 

 black, opaque, even or obsoletely rugulose, ostiolate, rarely con- 

 fluent ; spores oblong-fusoid, curved, obscurely two to three- 

 septate, .0005 to .0008 in. long, the bristle at each end .0004 to 

 .0005 in. long. 



Fallen trmt oi Sish.,Fr axinus Americana. Elizabethtown. May. 



The species is easily known by its large opaque perithecia and 

 simple or obscurely septate spores. 



Septoria Pisi. West. 

 Living pea leaves. Adirondack mountains. August. 



Septoria Scutellariae 77m77i 

 Living leaves of scull-cap, Scutellaria galericulata. Adirondack 

 mountains. July. 



Septoria conspicua F. <0 M. 

 Living leaves of fringed loosestrife, Steii'oneraa ciliaimn. Long 

 Island. July. 



