206 SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
and a diameter of 8-10 и; ascospores hyaline, ellipsoid or almond- 
shaped, 4-5 u X 12 p, usually containing two very small oil-drops. 
[PLATE 3.] 
On the rootstocks of wild geranium (Geranium maculatum). 
The type collected in woods in the upper end of Van Cortlandt 
Park, New York City, May, 1917. 
The subgenus Stromatinia has been raised to the rank of a 
genus by Boudier, although it is not commonly regarded as such. 
If the genus Stromatinia is considered distinct from Sclerotinia 
our plant would be designated as Stromatinia Geranii. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE 3 
Fic. 1. Photographs of the Botrytis stage on the underground > of wild 
geranium, natural size, with drawings of sporophores and conidia enlarg 
IG. 2. Photograph of apothecia, natural size, with drawing of ascus ehh spores 
and germinating Most dies enlarged. 
gs made with the aid of the camera lucida to a common scale using а 
one-inch eye-piece and a eerie objective. 
