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Phyllosticta oakesiae Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Spots colorless, translucent, surrounded by an indistinct border 

 from which a reddish stain extends into the leaf tissues, one-half 

 to i cm broad; pycnidia dark brown, epiphyllous but visible from 

 beneath, 100-200 /x in diameter; spores hyaline, grumous or guttu- 

 late, elliptic to fusoid, 9-22 by 5- 7 /x. 



On languishing leaves of Uvularia (Oakesia) sessi- 

 1 i f o 1 i a Linn. Karner, Albany county. H. D. House, no. 14.218, 

 October 8, 1914. Type in the herbarium of the New York State 

 Museum. 



Phyllosticta orobella Sacc. 



On languishing leaves of the Beach pea, Lathyrus mari- 

 timus (Linn.) Bigel. Orient Point, Long Island. Roy Latham, 

 September 11, 191 1. New to America. The spores are 2-guttulate 

 and 7-1 1 by 3 fx. 



Placosphaeria celtidis Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Stromata scattered, lenticel like, 1-2 by 1 mm, pycnidia .3-8 in a 

 stroma, cortical, erumpent through the cuticle, carbonous, conical, 

 100-160 /jl; spores issuing in cirrhi in the water, hyaline to amber, 

 mostly 2-nucleate, 5-8 by 3-3.5 /*. 



On dead twigs of C e 1 1 i s oecidentalis Linn. Saugerties. 

 Dr Charles H. Peck, May. Type in the herbarium of the New 

 York State Museum. 



Puccinia tenuis (Schw.) Burrill, I. 

 (Aecidium tenue Schw.) 

 On leaves of Eupatorium ageratoides Linn. Near 

 Hannibal, Oswego county. H. D. House, no. 14.36, June 27. 1014. 

 This species has also been collected in the Catskill mountains 

 upon the same host by Dr Charles H. Peck, and near Ottawa, 

 Canada, by Dr J. M. Macoun, no. 156, June 13, 1903. 



Septoria breviuscula Sacc. 

 Eaton, Madison county, on languishing and dead loaves of 

 L i n n a e a a m e r i c a n a . H. D. House, August 30. 1013. 

 Cotypc. 



Septoria lobeliae Pk. var. lobeliae-inflatae Saee. 

 Albany, on living leaves of Lobelia inflata. H. D. House, 

 July [913. Cotype. 



