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2 Notes on fungi 

 Asterina rubicola E. »S: E. 

 On living leaves of Rub us canadensis L. Albany. 

 H. D. House, July 25, 191 5. 



Aulographum subconfluens Peck 

 C^Sth Rep'r, p. 70. 1S76. Sacc, Syll. II, p. 729) 

 The host plant given for this species by Professor Peck is " dead 

 herbaceous stems," but an examination of the t}T)e specimens shows 

 that the host is Thalictnim. Professor Peck obtained a later col- 

 lection of this species near North Elba upon a host which he defi- 

 nitely identified as Thalictnmi. 



Barlaea lacunosa E. «5c E. 



(Proc. Acad. Pi:.. :.^:^ ; j-;. Sacc. SylL XL, p. 396) 



The only host given for this in the original description is " on 



bark." The specimen in the herbarium of the Xew York State 



Museum, from Waghome, and presimiably a duplicate of the t\-pe 



collection is on bark and dead twigs of Abies balsamea. 



Ascochyta clematidina Thiim. 

 (See ^g-irt i> 

 During the past t^o seasons this fungus, parasitic on the leave? 

 of Qematis, has been noted with great frequency, causing a serious 

 disfiguration and frequent death of leaves of the Virgin's-bower 

 (Clematis virginiana) both wild and cultivated. Speci- 

 mens of diseased leaves were collected in the coimties of Albany, 

 Rensselaer, Greene, Oneida, Madison and Onondaga. I assume 

 that the disease, at least as a common parasite of the Qematis, is of 

 recent appearance in this State, although it has been occasionally 

 mentioned in literatmre as the cause of a serious leaf disease of 

 cultivated Qematis, because there are no specimens in the state 

 herbarium collected by Doctor Peck, who would not have over- 

 looked it if it had been common in past years. It also appears to 

 have been collected by J. M. Macoim, at Ottawa, Canada, in 1897. 



Calyptospora columnaris (A. & S.) Kuhn. 

 Sylvan Beach, Oneida count}-. On stems of V a c c i n i u m 

 corymb o sum Linn. H. D. House, May 13, 1915. 



