REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, I919 39 



Phomopsis impatientis Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Pycnidia black, subcuticular, very numerous, circular to subelon- 

 gate, flattened, 270 to ^66 micr. ; ostiola, subcircular, short, merely 

 penetrating the cuticle, 50 to 75 fi across. Sporules hyaline, elliptic- 

 oblong, obscurely 2-guttulate, 6-10x2-3 fi, mixed in the oozing mass 

 that escapes from the wounded pycnidium with spores of another 

 form, curved or hamate, 15-20 x i fx and what appear to be shorter, 

 straight basidia, 5-12 x ^-^^ fi. 



On dead stems oflmpatiens biflora Walt., Oneida, Madi- 

 son county, May 15, 1918. H. D. House. Type in the New York 

 State Museum herbarium. 



Pleospora herbarum (Pers.) Rabh. 



On dead stems of Valeriana uliginosa (T. & G.) Rydb., 

 Jordanville, Herkimer county, July 12, 1918. H. D. House. 



Ramularia eamesii Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Maculae red brown, similar on both sides of the leaf, angular, 

 bounded by the veinlets, 2 to 4 mm in width. Fertile hyphae fasci- 

 culate, hyaline, hypophyllous, 5-18 {x. Conidia hyaline, continuous 

 or uniseptate, 15-20x2^-3 /x. 



On living leaves of Valeriana uliginosa (T. & G.) Rydb., 

 Jordanville, Herkimer county, July 12, 1918. H. D. House, Mr and 

 Mrs E. A. Eames. Type in the New York State Museum 

 herbarium. 



In nearly all cases those host plants which were badly affected 

 grew in or on the large nests in a sphagnum swamp built up by a 

 species of black ant, and which seems to have affected the vigor of 

 the plants growing on these ant nests. The same host, Valeriana 

 uliginosa, exhibits a rust, Puccini a comutata, 

 new to the eastern United States, and other species of plants grow- 

 ing on the ant nests were variously diseased. 



The hyphae and conidia are much smaller than described for 

 Ramularia Valerianae Speg. where the conidia are 

 described as reaching 50 x 8 /x. 



Ramularia montana (Speg.) Sacc. 

 On languishing leaves of Epilobium adenocaulon 

 Haussk.. Blue Mountain Lake, August 1887. Dr C. H. Peck. The 

 collection although scanty is in good condition and contains in addi- 

 tion a rust, Pucciniastrum pustulatum (Pers.) Dietel. 



