Eeport of the State Botanist. 137 



Cyphella l^ita, Fr. 



Dead stems of *herbs lying on the ground. East Berne. August. 

 The beautiful sulphur color is lost in drying. 

 Phoma cucurbitale, B. and G. 



Old squashes. Sandlake. July. 

 Sph^ropsis Cary^e, G. and E. 



Dead bark of hickory trees, Carya alba. West Troy. May. 

 The perithecia do not always grow in lines, but are frequently 

 arranged in an irregular manner. 



DlSCELLA HYSTERIELLA, n. Sp . 



Perithecia hysteriiform, nestling in the fibres of the wood, open- 

 ing by a longitudinal chink or a wide elliptical aperture, black ; 

 spores numerous, oblong, obtuse at each end, colorless, obscurely 

 uniseptate, -0003' — 0004' long, -00012' — 00015' broad. 



Decorticated wood. North Greenbush. Autumn and Spring. 



DlSCELLA ALBOMACULANS, 71. Sp. 



Perithecia punctiform, hemispherical, prominent, gregarious on 

 an indefinite whitish spot, black, opening by a simple irregular 

 or triradiate aperture ; spores abundant, oblong, colorless, ob- 

 scurely uniseptate, -0004' — 0005' long, -00012' broad. 



Dead twigs of grape-vines. Helderberg mountains. May. 



Eelated to, but distinct from, the preceding by its perithecia, 

 narrower and longer spores and by its forming a whitish spot on 

 the matrix. 

 Glceosporium fraxinea, n. sp. 



Spots numerous, small, pale-red with a darker or purplish-red 

 border and usually with a minute whitish center, nuclei few ; 

 spores oblong-elliptical, colorless, -0002' — 00025' long, -00016' 

 broad, sometimes with a minute nucleus at each end. 



Living leaves of ash, Fraxinus puhescens. Albany. June . 

 Septoria castnabina, n. sp. 



Spots suborbicular, small, unequal, cinereous, often with a red- 

 dish-brown border ; perithecia minute, numerous, epiphyllous, 

 central on the spot, blackish ; spores filiform, colorless, curved, 

 .0008' — 0012' long. 



Living leaves of hemp, Cannabis sativa. Cold Spring. June. 

 Septoria Sicyi, n. sp. 



Spots small, suborbicular, scattered or rarely subconfluent, 

 whitish or cinereous; arid ; perithecia few, epiphyllous, blackish ; 

 spores filiform, straight or curved, colorless, -0016- — 0024' long. 



Living leaves of Sicyos angulatus. Albany. June. 

 Septoria Calystegi^e, Sacc. 



Living leaves of Calystegia Sepium. Albany. June. 

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