REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I914 3 1 



Sphaerella populnea Sacc. 



Tupper Lake, on dead areas of living leaves of Populus 

 balsamif era, associated upon the same leaves with S e p - 

 toria populicola Peck. H. D. House, August 22, 1913. 

 Co type. 



Sporodesmium pilulare Sacc. 

 Albany, on dead bark of Juniperus v i r g i n i a 11 a . H. D. 

 House, July 1913. Cotype. 



Rhabdospora clarkeana Sacc. 

 Sand lake, Rensselaer county, on dead stems of Aquilegia 

 canadensis. H. D. House, July 4, 1913. Cotype. Named in 

 honor of Dr J. M. Clarke, Director of the New York State Museum. 



Ramularia obovata Fckl. 



Karner, Albany county, on living leaves of R u m e x o b t u s i - 

 f o 1 i u s . H. D. House, no. 250, October 8, 1914. 



Russula variata Banning. 

 A common species in the sandy oak woods near Sylvan Beach, 

 Oneida county, at the eastern end of Oneida lake. Collected there 

 in August 1914, by H. D. House. 



Venturia gaultheriae E. & E. 

 Karner, Albany county, on living leaves of Gaultheria 

 procumbens. H. D. House, no. 212, October 8, 19 14. 



Macrophoma peckiana Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Pycnidia scattered, sometimes confluent, seated on the phloem 

 fibers and raising the epidermis into oval, ruptured pustules 1 by 

 % mm ; the short or flat black ostiola visible usually through a gray 

 pulverulent layer of the disorganized cortex; spores hyaline, 10—12 

 by 4-4V2 fi, wall 1 p thick, on short basidia. 



On dead twigs of Ceanothus americanus Linn. North 

 Greenbnsh, Rensselaer county, collected by Dr C. H. Peck. 



Thyridium ceanothi Dearness & House, sp. nov. 

 Perithecia carbonous, thickly and evenly scattered, globose, 160- 

 360 fx, raising the epidermis through which shows the shining black 

 stromatic shield ; ostiola short punctif orm ; asci paraphysate, clavate, 



