REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 1908 IQ 
quandoque omnino evanescente, bulbo volvae reliquis persistenti- 
bus marginato; sporis globosis, 8 » in diam. 
Amanita porphyria Fr. 
Woods. Sand Lake, Rensselaer co. and Menands, Albany co. 
Aster vittatus Bu. 
Rocky places. Near Corning. August. 
Botrytis plebeja Fres. 
Living leaves of the common red currant, Ribes vulgare 
Lam. Menands, Albany co. September. It develops on the lower 
surface of the leaves on large brown spots. Usually one or two 
spots occur on a leaf. They are on the margin. 
: Brassica japonica Sieb. 
Introduced. Sometimes cultivated as a salad; but it seeds it- 
seli and persists in gardens. Coopers Plains, Steuben co. August. 
It is called pepper grass or California pepper grass. 
Calicium alboatrum Floerk. 
Decaying wood of red oak, Quercus rubra L. Catskill 
mountains. September. 
Celtis crassifolia Lam. 
Near Saugerties, Ulster co. May and October. 
Cephalozia lunulaefolia Dumort. 
Decaying wood. Near Little Moose lake, Herkimer co. Sep- 
tember. Miss C. C. Haynes. 
Cercospora rudbeckiae n. sp. 
Spots irregular, unequal, sometimes confluent, brownish or green- 
ish brown; hyphae hypophyllous, cespitose, .003-.004 of an inch 
long, .0002-.09024 broad, flexuous, sparingly septate; spores sub- 
cylindric or tapering upward .o008-.0036 of an inch long, .c002— 
.00024 broad, I—3-septate, colored nearly like the hyphae. 
Living leaves of the tall cone flower, Rudbeckia lacini- 
ata L. Near Painted Post, Steuben co. August. 
Spots similar to those of Ramularia rudbeckiae Pk. 
but hyphae much longer, denser and colored. 
