REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST FOR 1 92 1 95 



Stereum purpureum Pers. 

 Oneida, Madison county, on dead stump of some hardwood tree. 

 H. D. House, .November 25, 1918. 



Stereum rameale Schw. 

 Oneida, Madison county, on fallen trunk of Bet u la lutea 

 Michx. f., H. D. House, May 13, 1918 ; and onAlnus serru- 

 lata Willd., Albany, November 8, 1919; on Alnus serru- 

 lata Willd. near Napanoch, Ulster county, October 6, 1919. 



Uredo Bigelowii (Thum.) Arthur 

 (M e 1 am ps o r a Bigelowii Thum.) 

 II and III, on leaves of Salis pyrifolia Anderss., Bona- 

 parte swamp, Lewis county, H. D. House, June 22. A new host 

 species for this common rust in New York. The aecial stage on 

 Larix laricina ( DuRoi ) Koch, was also collected at Bona- 

 parte swamp, on the same date. 



Ustilago Heufleri Fckl. 



(U. erythronii G. W. Clinton) 

 Near Oriskany Falls, Oneida county, on living leaves of Ery - 

 thronium americanum Ker. H. D. House, May 26. 



Venturia compacta Peck 

 Newcomb, Essex county, on leaves ofOxycoccus Oxy- 

 coccus (L.) MacM., H. D. House, July 24. This constitutes a 

 new host for this fungus in this State. All the several other col- 

 lections in the state herbarium are on Oxycoccus macro- 

 carpus (Ait.) Pers. 



Pezicula fasciculata (Tode) comb. nov. 



Tubercularia fasciculata Tode, Meckl. Fungi, 1790 ; P e z i z a 

 car pine a Pers.; Pezicula carpinea Tul. 



On dead branches of Carpinus Carolinian a. Fish 



Creek, Oneida county, H. D. House, September 1918. 



