REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I914 3I 



Sphaerella populnea Sacc. 



Tupper Lake, on dead areas of living leaves of P o p u 1 u s 

 balsamifera, associated upon the same leaves with S e p - 

 toria populicola Peck. H. D. House, August 22, 1913. 

 Cotype. 



Sporodesmium pilulare Sacc. 

 Albany, on dead bark ofjuniperus.virginiana. H. D. 

 House, July 19 13. Cotype. 



Rhabdospora clarkeana Sacc. 



Sand lake, Rensselaer county, on dead stems of A q u i 1 e g i a 

 canadensis. H. D. House, July 4, 1913. Cotype. Named in 

 honor of Dr J. M. Clarke, Director of the New York State Museum. 



Ramularia obovata Fckl. 



Karner, Albany county, on living leaves of Rumex obtusi- 

 f o 1 i u s . H. D. House, no. 2jo, October 8, 1914. 



Russula variata Banning. 



A common species in the sandy oak woods near Sylvan Beach, 

 Oneida county, at the eastern end of Oneida lake. Collected there 

 in August 1914, by H. D. House. 



Venturia gaultheriae E. & E. 



Karner, Albany county, on living leaves of Gaultheria 

 p r o c u m b e n s . PI. D. House, no. 212, October 8, 1914. 



Macrophoma peckiana Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Pycnidia scattered, sometimes confluent, seated on the phloem 

 fibers and raising the epidermis into oval, ruptured pustules i by 

 }i mm ; the short or flat black ostiola visible usually through a gray 

 pulverulent layer of the disorganized cortex; spores hyaline, 10-12 

 by 4-4I/2 /A, wall I (x thick, on short basic! ia. 



On dead twigs of Ceanothus americanus Linn. North 

 Greenbush, Rensselaer county, collected by Dr C. H. Peck. 



* Thyridium ceanothi Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Perithecia carbonous, thickly and evenly scattered, globose, 160- 

 360 /x, raising the epidermis through which shows the shining black 

 stromatic shield ; ostiola short punctiform ; asci paraphysate, clavate, 



