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Nothomyces nigricans Sacc. 

 Near Oneida, Madison county, on dead bark of Carpi n us 

 caroliniana. H. D. House, July 22, 1913. Cotype. 



Phyllosticta baccharidis Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Spots flesh colored to pale ferruginous, subcircular, determined by 

 the large veinlets, usually visible on both surfaces of the leaf and 

 similar, but in some cases showing on the upper surface only, with 

 a very distinct concolorous raised border, tending to be deciduous, 

 3-8 by 2-6 mm; pycnidia dark, amphigenous but more numerous 

 on the upper surface of the spot, as many as thirty to a spot, round 

 perforate but sometimes hysteriiform, 50-115 i±, mostly about 75 fi 

 in diameter; spores hyaline, reniform, usually nucleate at each 

 end, 4-6 by 3 fi. , 



On living leaves of Baccharis halimifolia Linn. 

 Orient Point, Long Island. Roy Latham, August 14, 191 1. Type 

 in the herbarium of the New York State Museum. 



Phyllosticta chenopodii Sacc. 

 Albany, on living leaves of Chenopodium album Linn. 

 H. D. House, October 20, 1914. Apparently new to America as 

 the specimens distributed in the North American Fungi, no. 1158, 

 under this name are Septoria atrip licis. 



Phyllosticta medeolae Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Spots reddish or gray-red areas beginning at the tips of the leaves 

 and extending in some cases over half of the leaf ; pycnidia black, 

 sulcate, epiphyllous, scattered, about 100 fx in diameter; spores 

 hyaline, sometimes guttulate, linear-oblong, 12-15 by 2- 3 A 1 - 



On living or languishing leaves of Medeola virginiana 

 Linn, near Albany. H. D. House, no. 14.137, September 12, 1914. 



Phyllosticta lantanoides Peck 

 Albany, on living leaves of Viburnum cassinoides 

 Linn. H. D. House, September 12, 1914. Originally described 

 from Caroga, on leaves of Viburnum a 1 n i f o 1 i u m . 



Phyllosticta nyssae Cooke 



Karner, Albany county, on living leaves of Nyssa sylvatica 

 Marsh. H. D. House, October 3, 1914. Apparently new to the 

 State. 



