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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Puccinia asparagi DC. 



Living stems and branches of asparagus. Whitesboro. September. 

 C. S. Banks. This parasite is often very destructive to its host plant. 

 It has but recently been introduced into our state and it is an addi- 

 tional parasitic fungus, with which our gardeners and asparagus 

 cultivators must conten'd. 



Diplodia conigena Desm. 

 Scales of pine cones. Brooklyn. April. L. H. Peet. 



Gloeosporium melanconioides n. sp. 



Pustules numerous, minute, nestling in the bark, covered by the 

 epidermis which is usually ruptured transversely; spores oozing out 

 and forming masses or globules which are whitish wnen moist, black- 

 ish when dry, broadly elliptic, .0004 to .0005 of an inch long, .00024 

 to .0003 broad, usually containing a single large nucleus; sporophores 

 very short or obsolete. 



Bark of pear trees. Geneva. W. Paddock. 



The spores are similar to those of Melanconium hyalinum 

 E. E. in size, but in that species the pustules are larger, the sporo- 

 phores are longer and the extruded spores form a smoky brown mass. 



Acrostalagmus cinnabarinus Cd. 



Dead stems of carnation pinks. Geneva. F. C. Stewart. 



Monilia sitophila {Mont.) Sacc. 



Stale bread. Albany. W. G. Tucker. This is a beautiful mold 

 having a delicate salmon color. In these specimens there was an 

 agreeable odor resembling that of strawberries. 



Scleroderma verrucosum maculatum n. var. 



PLATE B, fig. 8-12 



Subsessile, globose or depressed globose, 1 to 3 inches broad; 

 peridium thick, firm, brown, adorned with minute, thin, dark brown 

 squamules, which often fall from the upper part, leaving it dotted 

 with small, round, pale or yellowish spots; spores blackish in the 

 mass, globose, warted, .0006 to .0007 of an inch broad; tramal walls 

 yellowish brown. 



Mucky soil in woods. Rosendale. September. 



