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SEPTORIA STELLARIiE, R. & D. 



Living or languishing leaves of chickweed, Stellaria media' 

 Aden Lair, Adirondack mountains. June. 



SEPTORIA SIBIRICI, Thtxm. 



Living leaves of fetid currant, Ribes prostratum. Adirondack 

 mountains. September. 



SEPTORIA SOLIDAGINICOLA, N. sp. 



Spots small, angular, white or whitish on the upper surface, 

 darker beneath, surrounded by a brown or reddish brown border; 

 perithecia few, usually one or two on a spot, epiphyllous, sub- 

 globose, blackish; spores linear, straight, subacute, simple, .001 to 

 .0016 inch long, .00016 broad. 



Living leaves of goldenrod, Solidago arguta. Cobble hill, near 

 Elizabethtown. September. 



Distinguished from 5. Solidaginis by its longer continuous spores, 

 which are neither septate nor nucleate. 



SEPTORIA BREVIS, N. sp. 



Spots none; perithecia scattered, epiphyllous, minute, .003 to 

 .004 inch broad, opening widely, black; spores short, .0004 to 

 .0005 inch long, .00006 broad, straight or slightly curved. 



Dead leaves of Solidago virgaurea v. alpina. Mt. Marcy. 

 June. 



Distinct from other species inhabiting solidago, by its very 

 short spores, which resemble somewhat the allantoid spores of 

 species of Valsa. 



SEPTORIA POPULICOLA, N. sp. 



Spots suborbicular, reddish or brownish red with a narrow 

 blackish border on the upper surface, grayish on the lower; 

 perithecia hypophyllous, few, pale, opening widely; spores filiform, 

 curved, two to four-septate, .0025 to .003 inch long, .00012 to .00016 

 broad. 



Living leaves of balm of Gilead, Populus balsamifera. Keene. 

 June. 



Distinguished from other species found on poplar by its long 

 pluriseptate spores. The perithecia are but slightly developed. 



SEPTORIA SMILACINiE, E. & M. 



Languishing leaves of Smilacina racemosa. Sandlake. Septem- 

 ber. 



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