22 Report of the State Botanist. 



Haplosporella Symplioricarpi n. sp. 



Stroma small .02 to .06 in. broad, often confluent, erumpent, 

 suborbicular, closely surrounded by the luptured remains of the 

 epidermis, black, the upper surface plane or slightly convex, dotted 

 by the slightly prominent ostiola; spores oblong, colored, con- 

 tinuous, .0006 to .0008 in. long, .0003 broad. 



Dead stems of snowberry, jSi/mjjhoricarpiis racemosus. Alcove, 

 Albany county. March. C. L. Shear. 



Rhabdospora rhoina n. sjy . 



Perithecia numerous, sunk in the bark, covered by the slightly 

 pustulated epidermis ; spores subfiliform, slender, curved, .0005 to 

 .0006 in. long, oozing out and forming slender yellowish or pallid 

 tendrils. 



Dead branches of sumac, Rhus tyjphina. Cooperstown Junc- 

 tion. June. 



Volutella stellata n. sp. 



Sporodochia minute, sometimes confluent in irregular masses 

 which are one to two liDes long, covered by the mostly stellately 

 branched brownish-tawny setae ; spores globose or subelliptical, 

 .00016 to .0002 ia. long. 



Much decayed wood of chestnut. Flatbush. September. R&v. 

 J. L. ZabrisJcie. 



This is a peculiar and somewhat aberrant species but it appears 

 to be connected with normal forms by V. ochracea. The setae 

 are variable in length and in ramification. Some are simply 

 dichotomous, others are stellate below and dichotomous above. 



Epicoccum nigrum. Lk. 



Dead stems of blackberry lily, Balamcanda Chinensis. 

 Menands. May. 



Penicillium candidum Lh. 



On mushrooms, Agaricus campester., in a greenhouse. Ithaca. 

 Dudley. 



YdijV.subcandidu7n. Fertile hyphae irregularly branched above, 

 the color at first white, then whitish or cinereous. 



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