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Sacidium Pini Fr. 



Dead balsam leaves. Adirondack Mountains and Summit. Aug. and 



Sept. 



Septoria Waldsteini^e P. & C. 



Spots small, unequal, suborbicular, arid, gray with a purple-brown or 

 blackish margin, perithecia minute, few, epiphyllous, black ; spores straight, 

 .001' long. 



Leaves of dry strawberry, Waldsteinia fragarioides. Portage. O. W. 

 Clinton. Helderberg Mountains. May. 



Septoria Verbascicola B. & C. v 



Leaves of mullein, Verbascum blattaria. Albany. July. 

 I find no description of this fungus, and take the name from specimens 

 received from Dr. Curtis. 



Phyllosticta Lonicer^ Desm. 



Living leaves of fly honeysuckle, Lonicera ciliata. Catskill and Adiron- 

 dack Mountains. July and Aug. 



Vermicularia trichella Grev. 

 Ivy leaves. Buffalo. Clinton. 



Vermicularia albomaculata Schw. 



Leaves of carrion flower, Smilax herbacea. Buffalo. Sept. Clinton. 



Melanconium Americanum P. & C. 



Pustules small, grouped or circinating on orbicular spots ; stroma none or 

 obsolete ; spores compact, oozing out in subconical masses, staining the ma- 

 trix black, subglobose or broadly elliptical, .0002 -.0003' long. 



In conservatories on dead leaves of the American century plant, Agave 

 Americana. Buffalo. Feb. Clinton. 



Sporidesmium sicynum Thum. 



Deadjilder branches. Adirondack Mountains. Aug. 



Phragmidium bulbosum Fr. 



Leaves of Potentilla fruticosa. Copake. Oct. 



The spores are darker colored than in European specimens, and therefore 

 the septa are soon very obscure. 



Uromyces Trifolii Fckl. 



Leaves of Medicago lupulina. Buffalo. Clinton. 



Uromyces polymorphus P. & C. 



Spots brownish ; sori blackish-brown, prominent, surrounded by the rup- 

 tured epidermis ; spores large, polymorphous, subglobose, elliptical, ovate, ob- 

 long or clavate, often angular, the apex acute, obtuse, truncate or even emar- 

 ginate, .0014-.002' long; pedicel equaling or exceeding the spore in length. 



Lower surface of leaves of Lathyrm ochroleucus. Buffalo. Nov. Clinton. 



