REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST IQIO 45 



form is the white pine rust Peridermium strobi Kleb., 

 a pernicious pest destructive to young white pines. This station is 

 far removed from the one originally discovered at Geneva. For- 

 tunately it is apparently very scarce in this new locality. In 

 neither instance was any white pine found to be affected by the 

 rust. The question arises in each case. Whence came the spores 

 that infected the currant leaves? Can the fungus perpetuate itself 

 without the intervention of the white pine rust? 



Daphne mezereum L. 



This early spring flowering shrub is quite hardy and escaping 

 from cultivation it becomes established in pastures and waste 

 places. It is beautiful both in flower and in fruit. Fine specimens 

 were contributed by Miss E. W. Mische and Mrs L. L. Goodrich. 

 They were collected near Homer, Cortland co. and were so abun- 

 dant on a hillside near the cemetery that they were cut with a 

 scythe as if they were noxious weeds. 



Euphorbia corollata L. 



Sandy barrens near Bushnells Basin and Perinton, Monroe co. 

 July and August. M. S. Baxter. This rare plant is apparently 

 limited to the western part of the State. 



Fuligo ovata (Schaeff.) Macbr. 



This is one of our largest slime molds and one of the most vari- 

 able in external color. A specimen found near Newport, Herki- 

 mer CO. by G. S. Graves was 25 cm long, 20 cm broad and about 

 6 cm thick. 



Glonium parvulum (Ger.) Sacc. 

 Decorticated wood. Orient Point. January. R. Latham. Rare. 



Herpotrichia diffusa (Schw.) Ellis 

 In Sylloge this species stands under the name H erpotrichia 

 rhodomphala (Berk.) Sacc. Under this name it was 

 recorded in the Annual Report of the State Botanist for 1889, page 

 34. Specimens found at Orient Point in March by R. Latham have 

 some of the perithecia wholly red, others partly so. They were 

 growing on decaying wood of locust. Robinia pscuda- 

 c a c i a L. 



