REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST [0,l6 35 



Septoria gentianae Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Spots arid, small, subcircular, i to 5 mm in diameter, surrounded 

 by a very narrow, sharply raised border extending outward into a 

 reddish zone; when numerous the whole leaf becomes dilute brown. 



Pycnidia epiphyllous, brown, 30-35 /z, with a minute opening. 

 Sporules continuous, 15-24 ju, but averaging 18-20 x .5 /*■ 



On leaves of Gentiana quinqueflora L. Taberg, 

 Oneida county. H. D. House, August 19 14. Type in the herbarium 

 of the New York State Museum. 



Septoria microsora Speg. on Gentiana, in Europe, is 

 hypophyllous and is said to have widely gaping ostiola and pluri- 

 septate sporules. 



Septoria macrosporia Dearness 



On living leaves of the white daisy (Chrysanthemum 1 e u - 

 canthemum L.) Albany. H. D. House, November 1, 1916. 



Septoria rudbeckiae E. & H. 

 var. oaklandica Sacc. 

 On living and languishing leaves of Rudbeckia hirta L. 

 Albany. H. D. House, November 13, 19 15. (Determined by Dear- 

 ness.) 



Sphaerographium hystricinum (Ell.) Sacc. 

 var. viburni Dearness & House, var. nov. 

 This variety on stems of Viburnum cassinoides has 

 pungent, beaked pycnidia nearly 1 mm long. Sporules 15-30 x 2 /*, 

 subarcuate, acute, simple and continuous or paucinucleate, borne on 

 narrow, branching sporophores varying in length from 5 \x to that of 

 the sporules. 



On dead stems of Viburnum cassinoides L. Babylon, 

 N. Y. H. D. House, April 20, 19 16. Type in the herbarium of 

 the New York State Museum. 



Professor Peck figured the pycnidia and sporules of this form on 

 Viburnum nudum in the 38th report. Mr Ellis's type was 

 found upon Azalea and described as having sporules 25 /x long on 

 stipes 3 5 /xlong. 



Sphaeropsis liquidambaris Dearness & House sp. nov. 

 Pycnidia .3 mm, globose, gregarious, surrounding the twigs, 

 covered by the epidermis in which narrow clefts expose the very 

 short ostiola; conidia tardily yellow-brown, on sporophores of about 



