lljO Forty- SIXTH Report on the State Museum. 



Lycoperdon asterospermum D. <ib M. 



North Greenbush and West Albany. 



Liycoperdon perlatum I*ers. 



Brewerton, Adirondack and Catskill mountains. August and 

 September. Following the illustrious Fries, I formerly included 

 this with Z. gemmatum, but it is so well marked by the prevail- 

 ing form of the peridium and especially by the character of the 

 spines of the cortex that it seems best to consider it a distinct 

 species. 



Lycoperdon Curtisii Berk. 



Ground by roadside. Guilderland. October. 



Didymium proximuni B. S C. 

 Fallen twigs and leaves of pine. Lake Pleasant. August. 



Physarum contextuin Rost. 

 Bark of trees. Fulton Chain. August. 



Peronospora Linarise Fchl. 

 Living stems and leaves of Canadian toadflax, Linaria Cana- 

 densis. Riverhead. July. This fungus is described as pure 

 white, but in our specimens the patches have a dirty-white or 

 grayish hue often with a slight violaceous tint. The long and 

 narrowly obovate conidia are quite characteristic. 



Phyllosticta. Dioscoreae Cke. 



Living leaves of yam, Dioscorea mllosa. Riverhead. July. 



Yar. grisea. Spots gray with a narrow reddish-brow^n margin; 



perithecia epiphyllous, numerous,, black ; spores globose or ovoid. 



Phoma vulgaris Sacc. 



Dead stems of long-fruited anemone. Anemone cylindrica. 



Delmar. June. The spores in our plant are slightly smaller 



than in the type. 



Macrophoma versabilis n. $20. 



Perithecia scattered, irregular, globose or compressed and hys- 

 teriiform, erumpent or subsuperficJal, black ; spores oblong-ellip- 

 tical, colorless, .0005 to .0000 in. long, .00025 to .0003 broad ; 

 sporophores generally shorter than the spores. 



