‘ my ru ~~ at ie = > 4 4 8 , ( ; C 36 < ae Ww York State Museum Bulletin N82X red : as se canti-tiabe matter ovaniiliek 27, I915, at the Post Office at Albany, New York, ‘ NH ea under the act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special rate e [ei - of postage provided for in section 1103, act of October 3, 1917, a authorized July 19, 1918 Se ~ Published monthly by The University of the State of New York 224 me ALBANY, N.Y. MAY-JUNE 1920 = The cies of the State- of New York eS New York State Museum | | BS ha JOHN M. CLARKE, Director Homer D. Howse, Staie Botanist ~ “ ” ee gee Se PAGE PAGE EG a SReweeres 5 | Studies in the Genus Inocybe lora Notes VII. Rea bist Pe % C. H. KAUFFMAN........ ees ey © fotes on Fungi VII........... . 15 | Necessary ee of Certain Jex to the New York Species : Binns Naries*. , iéein wc «2. sos 00 Aycosphaerella....... ERY i 8 6 aS ane ES ae ERR g: or Noteworthy Species of , ; oe Home. 32 rata a ALBANY - TH UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ey 1921 Re, of as, : ST. e are ae se é ; ae oe “ ere eee ee ae THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Regents of the University With years when terms expire (Revised to November 15, 1921) 1926 Priny T. Sexton LL.B., LL.D., Chancellor Emeritus - - - - - - = = = = = = Palmyra 1922 CHESTER S. Lorp M.A., LL.D., Chancellor - - Brooklyn ‘1924 ADELBERT Moot LL.D., Vice Chancellor - - Buffalo 1927 ALBERT VANDER VEER M.D.,M.A.,Ph.D.,LL.D. Albany 1925 CHARLES B. ALEXANDER M.A., LL.B., LL.D., Litt.D. - - - - - - - --- = - + = Tuxedo 1928 WALTER GuEsT KELLocc B.A., LL.D. - - - Ogdensburg 1932 JAMES ByRNE B.A., LL.B., LL.D. - - - - New York 1929 HERBERT L. BripcMAN M.A., LL.D. - - - Brooklyn 1931 THomas J. Mancan M.A. - - - - - - = Binghamton 1933 WILLIAM J. WALLIN M.A. - - - = = - - Yonkers 1923 WILLIAM Bonpy M.A., LL.B., Ph.D. - - - New York 1930 WILLIAM P. 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Woop M.A. School Libraries, SHERMAN WILLIAMS Pd.D. Visual Instruction, ALFRED W. ABRAMS Ph.B. Vocational and Extension Education, L—Ewis A. WILSON The University of the State of New York Science Department, September 3, 1920 Dr John H. Finley President of the Umversity SIR: I have the honor to communicate herewith and to recommend for publication as a bulletin of the State Museum, the annual report of the State Botanist for the year 1919. Very respectfully yours Joun M. CLARKE Director Approved for publication President of the University New York State Museum Bulletin Entered as second-class matter November 27, 1915, at the Post Office at Albany, New York, under the act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, act of October 3, 1917, authorized July 19, 1918 Published monthly by The University of the Siate of New York Nos. 233-234 May-June 1920 The University of the State of New York New York State Museum Joun M. CuiarkeE, Director REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST FOR 1919 Scientific investigations. The investigative work of the State Botanist during the season of 1919 has been greatly handicapped by the lack of office assistance. Field work in connection with the study of the vegetation and fungi consisted of a few days spent in southern Herkimer county, the region east of Oneida lake, Lake Bonaparte and in Bergen swamp, Genesee county. About two weeks were spent during August along the Fulton Chain of lakes in the Adirondack region. In spite of various obstacles a considerable amount of valuable field work was completed and a large number of fungi, ferns and flowering plants were collected, most of which will be incorporated into the herbarium as a permanent record of their distribution. The ferns and flowering plants of peculiar interest are reported under “Local Flora Notes,” and the fungi under “ Notes on Fungi.” A large number of fungi, both of current collections and also from the herbarium have been studied in collaboration with Prof. John Dearness and reported under “New and Interesting Species of Fungi.” > ia) The species of fungi belonging to the genus Inocybe as represented in the state herbarium, have been carefully studied by Dr C. H. Kauffman, and the results are offered here in a paper entitled “‘ The Species of Inocybe in Peck’s Collections.” Catalog of the ferns and flowering plants of New York. The earliest catalog of the plants of the State of New York was pub- lished in 1814 by Jacob Green. This was closely followed in 1819 by John Torrey’s catalog of the plants growing within 30 miles of New York City. Torrey’s catalog of the plants of the State appeared in 1840, and his two volume flora in 1843. These were followed by revised lists of the plants of the State in 1849 and 1866. 6 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM These admittedly incomplete lists form the basis for the additions and corrections carried forward by the late Dr Charles Horton Peck, as State Botanist, with each annual report from 1869 to 1913. No complete list of the plants of the entire State has been published, however, since 1866. The preparation of this catalog of the plants of the state is practically completed and it will soon be presented for publication as a separate bulletin. Reports of doubtful value have been terified wherever possible or else the report is stated to rest only upon a certain published record. Noteworthy contributions to the state herbarium. The chief additions to the state herbarium during the past year in the form of contributions and exchanges are presented in the following list of contributors, which also indicates the number of specimens received from each: SPECIMENS New York Botanical. Garden,. Newco York... cee cee eee Stewart ‘EH. Burnitam, (Hudson ‘Falls <- 2... 2.2 hecete oe oe ee eee De JeoJ. Davis, Madison, ;Wasiiecwss SOI Le GOTReRae. See, PD: M. , Wihite, Rochester, 5005.00, cloud eee © ee ee Oe Re'"P.: Keilitp; Rochester. 0c. 5% ..c ws ee cc ooyolae nent ere ete eee Géoree Morris; (Peterborough, .Ganatlas ysis. Se Stk Ae ee De W. Haydon: ‘Marshield, Ores... soc. ik As caste eae eee Jolt Dearness,. London, Canada 34.05.'..2: . eee on ee ee ae ee eee Edward «A. ‘EFames, Buffalo... es o.c: i000. 062 Dee os oe Walliam 1. Lambercer; Middletows,.... beers a+ cee tee ee Dri”, Overnalts, State college, (Pa... anss wean ae nen ee ae Charlotte Bogandis, ' Coxsatkie! adh. & UR SSO, AA, ee FE. J... Braendle, -Washimetony, 1. 4G. ix 32: «tee tie eee ee Dr’t.. drome], Steckholin; Swede. .552....0 ski aens + 2 ee ee ee AslH. Kame: Albany. v.48) 2G. 2OCR ee JRC. Se Re ee A. .M. Henry, Tallahassee, Pla... 1. ni¢.c cee: ee cee tee cee ee CoA. Matsie; Holley. ooo eee. aioe aes ce. ce ahs oy cinics dice renee tae een FL R:: Bayne; Bast) Jewettoais . 0020. 206 SR Se SOF See eH RW NWWWINUM oO POtal a oe ids cree ais Feo Se Oecd Ee eS KR oO Or Additions to the herbarium. The number of specimens which have been added to the herbarium from all sources during the past year is 635. Of these, 185 were received in exchange or as con- tributions. Four hundred fifty specimens were collected by the botanist in the counties of Albany, Genesee, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Madison, Monroe, Oneida, Onondaga, Rensselaer and Ulster. The number of specimens added to the herbarium which represent species not previously contained in the collections was 75. This includes 14 species of fungi described as new species, and two flower- ing plants described as new species. Identifications. The State Botanist’s office has been called upon to identify and report upon 340 specimens of plants, including many OIOI JOGWUI2ZAON FO UIOJS JOTI JY} AQ poseuep “KR “NHN ‘Auvqry ‘yAeq UopSulyseAA Ul soo1 7, REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ j fungi and mushrooms. These identifications were asked for by 122 different persons. Damage to trees by ice. The damage done to trees by ice and sleet is of rather frequent occurrence in this climate, and nearly every year, in some localities, there is record of more or less serious injury, especially to shade and park trees. Rarely, however, has there been such severe injury caused by ice as occurred in the latter part of November 1919. A cold rain which froze as it fell accumulated upon the branches and twigs of the trees to a thickness of half an inch in many places. The weather increased in coldness and the ice remained upon the branches for 36 to 48 hours or longer. Absence of heavy wind alone apparently saved many trees from almost com- plete destruction, but even without any wind the trees suffered greatly, as indicated by the accompanying illustration (figure 1), from a photograph taken in Washington Park, Albany, by William C. Oke. Elm trees apparently suffered the greatest damage, but even trees with such tough wood as hickory were not immune and suffered the loss of large limbs. LOCAL FLORA NOLES Vil Albany County Calamagrostis inexpansa A. Gray Marshy meadow near Karner, Albany county, H. D. House, No. 6417, July 7, 1919. A grass of the coastal plain region, not unex- pected, however, at Karner, in a region where many other coastal plain species have been found. Leptoloma cognatum (Schultes) Chase Sandy fields near Albany, H. D. House, No. 6568, July 28, 1919. This grass, a native of the middle west and southern states, has been previously recorded from New Hampshire and from Long Island (Taylor, Fl. Vic. N. Y. 99. 1915). Its appearance near Albany is recent but it has already spread rapidly and is found commonly over a large area of sandy country west of the city. Poa cuspidata Nutt Along a shaded path, McKown’s grove, near Albany, H. D. House, No. 6052, May 30, 1919. 8 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Chamaesyce vermiculata (Raf.) comb. nov. Euphorbia vermiculata Raf., Am. Mo. Mag., 2: 206. Jan. 1878. E. maculata Michx. Fl. Bor., Am., 2: 212. 1803. Not L. E. hypericifolia var. hirsuta Torr., Fl. N. & Mid. St. 331. 1826. E. hirsuta Wiegand, Bot. Gaz., 24:51. 1897. Not Schur. 1853. E. rafinesqui Greene, Pittonia, 3: 207. 18697. Chamaesyce rafinesqui Small; Britton & Brown, Illus. Fl., ed. 2, 2: 467. 1913. In sandy and gravelly soil. Frequent along the Hudson river in Albany county, and apparently also across the State south of the Adirondack region. Doctor Greene (Pittonia, 3: p. 207) in renaming FE. hirsuta Wiegand, does not state which of the three species of Euphorbia described by Rafinesque, he considered the same as this species, merely remarking that the name was preoccupied. Of the three species referred to, only E. 1ittoralis appears to be preoccupied name, and that, described as possessing pubescent capsules, can not be this, species. FE. supina ,Raf.is clearly a synonym oe Eo maculata Lo and &. lattoralis) Rat icve iain eed description of what is now called E,humistrata. E. vermi- culata is well described and can only apply to this species which has glabrous capsules, along with the other characters which he mentions. It is common along the Hudson river, the upper portion of which is the type locality of the plant described by Rafinesque. Rafinesque’s description reads as follows: 21 Sp Euphorbia vermiculata Raf. Upright, nearly dichotomous, pilose: leaves opposite, shortly petiolated, oblong acute acuminate serrate trinerved, base oblique, thin, vermiculate — dotted: flowers solitary in the dichotomies peduncled upright, perianthe campanulated fourcleft, sepals ovate entire, capsules smooth.— Obs. Found in August, 1816, near Sandyhill and Glens Falls, State of New York, in fields. Small annual plant, flowers reddish: the vermicilar transparent dots of the leaves are very remarkable. Panicum scribnerianum Nash On dry hilltop in thin soil overlying shale rock, Glenmont south of Albany. H. D. House, No. 6570, July 29, 19109. Genesee County Panicum lindheimeri Nash Common in the open marly bogs of Bergen swamp, H. D. House, No. 6519, 6520, July 18, 1919. Also collected here in 1904 by Doctor Peck, and a Bergen specimen collected by E. J. Hill is cited by Hitch- cock and Chase in their monograph of the genus Paricum. REPORT UF THE STATE BOTANIST, I91T9 9 Greene County Orontium aquaticum L. On an island in the Hudson river at Coxsackie, Charlotte Bogar- dus. For the northward distribution of this species in New York, see Museum Bulletin 179, p. 40 (1915). Except for a specimen said to have been collected in Fulton county in 1884, this is the most northerly recorded station for the Golden Club, in New York. Madison County Panicularia borealis (Nash) Batchelder In wet places, Pecksport, H. D. House, No. 6563, July 21, 19109. Lewis County Carex albicans Willd. Common on rocky ledges along the shore of Lake Bonaparte, H. D. House, No. 6210, June 14, 1919. Carex albursina Sheldon Common in rich woods near Lake Bonaparte, H. D. House, No. 6252, June 14, 1919. Carex tenuiflora Wahl. In sphagnum under shade of spruce and tamarack, Bonaparte - swamp, with such typical northern bog plants as Ophrys cor- meee tysitella obtusata,..Garex tris perma,and Carex disperma. One of the rarest of the sedges of this State. Formerly in Oriskany swamp, Oneida county (Kneiskern, June 8, 1840 in Sartwell herbarium); swamp west of Fort Bull, J. A. Paine (Cat.-p. 152, 1865) and Ogdensburg, Crawe (Torrey, Fl. N. Y., 2: 381. 1843). In the first two localities it is long since exterminated and the only other recent collection is from the East _ Lake George marsh where it was collected by S. H. Burnham. Bonaparte Swamp In 1900 Doctor Peck gave a most interesting account of the vegeta- tion of Bonaparte swamp in the extreme northern end of Lewis county. This account does not indicate the time of year during which his observations were made but reference to his notebooks shows it to have been during July 1888, and the additional species found there June 24-26, 1904, are recorded in Bulletin 94. IO NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM The swamp is of such a large size that it is not at all surprising that two different observers, working even at the same season of the year, might record lists of plants which varied considerably as to the minor or rarer species. For instance, Doctor Peck remarks upon the absence:ot “Viola icucallatat Weratrium Vrooine: Calla*palws tri staid Carex intumescens, wich were observed by the writer as common there, at least in certain portions of the swamp visited, and which may have been just the portions which Doctor Peck did not explore. On the other hand, Doctor Peck records quite a number of species which do not appear in my notes, made between June 13 and 16, 1919. It is difficult, however, to imagine how he could have overlooked certain very common plants’ like ‘Cypripedium’ parvitPorum, Arete bulbosa;y Viola*renitodiap Poly gala’ pancit elma Pyrola’ uliginosa)and.,onicer a’ ob lone iio lae unless the vegetative aspect of the swamp has undergone great changes since the time of his visit, which does not seem probable, although some lumbering and wood cutting have taken place. The collections made there in 1919 include 105 different species, in addition to notes made upon the general vegetation which includes mention of many more species recognizable without the necessity of making specimens for future reference. The following species collected and placed in the state herbarium do not appear in Doctor Peck’s list of the plants of Bonaparte swamp. Phegopteris dryopteris (L.) Fee Camptosorus rhizophyllus (1.) Link. On a glacial boulder in the swamp Dryopteris cristata (L.) A. Gray Poa pratensis L. Poa alsodes A. Gray Festuca obtusa Spreng. Panicularia nervata (Willd.) Kuntze Millium effusum L. Carex tenuiflora Wahl. rinita Lam. gynandra Schw. vesicaria L. intumescens var. fernaldi “ leptalea Wahl. bromoides Schk. Sa uidbanviay Le Eriophorum alpinum L. (Reported by Peck in 1904) Cypripedium arietinum FR. Br. ‘ parviflorum Salish. Fig abenaria hypenborea (L.) R. Br. obtusata (Pursh) Richards: a clavellata (Michx.) Spreng. Arethusa bulbosa L. Listera cordata (L.) R. Br. Corallorrhiza trifida Chatelain REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ A UA Streptopus roseus Mich+. Veratrum viride L. Vagnera trifolia (L.) Morong Unifolium canadense (Desf.) Greene Thalictrum dioicum L. Ranunculus abortivus L. Cardamine pennsylvanica Muhl. Cardamine pratense L. Mitella diphylla L. Moehringia lateriflora (L.) Fenzl. Viola cucullata Ait. ‘ septentrionalis Greene conspersa Reichenb. incognita Brainard (In addition to V. pallens (Banks) Br., both of which were included in V. blanda at the time of Peck’s list) Viola renifolia A. Gray Polygala paucifolia Willd. Pyrola secunda L. “ uliginosa JT. & G. Lonicera oblongifolia (Goldie) Hook. Diervilla diervilla (L.) MacM. Sambucus racemosa L. ‘“c i7% Herkimer County Senecio obovatus Muhl. Open woods, hilltops south of Little Falls, H. D. House, No. 6188. June 10, 1919. Panicularia fernaldii Hitche. comb. nov. (Glyceria pallida var. fernaldw Hitchc.) In marshy places along a small stream near “Kenmore” on Fourth lake, H. D. House, No. 6640, August 9, 1919. Lonicera glaucescens Rydb. Wooded banks on the west side of Irondequoit bay, H. D. House, No. 6506, July 17, 1919. Panicum villosissimum Nash On sandy hillsides in partial shade, near Irondequoit, H. D. House No. 6511, July 17, 1919. Growing with Panicum wmaerocarpum Ell and P. dichotomum, L... In; this State previously known only from the southeastern part and from Albany county. Veronica baxteri sp. nov. Stems 2 to 4 cm long or longer, glabrous, rooting at the lower nodes, the ends ascending. [Leaves glabrous, oblong-elliptical to sub- orbicular, 2 to 4.5 cm long, rarely longer, one-half to more than three- fourths as broad, sometimes suborbicular in shape, obtuse or rounded at the apex, rounded or rarely subacute at the base, petioles 6-18 mm 1 §7 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM long, margins irregularly crenate-dentate; racemes glabrous, 10-20- flowered, chiefly from the lower and middle nodes; bracts linear or linear-lanceolate, the lower ones usually exceeding the pedi- cels and sometimes the flowers; sepals lanceolate, 3.5 to 4 mm long, acute ; corolla blue, 6-8 mm broad; capsules globose-ovoid, about 4 mm in diameter (? immature). Moist fields near Rochester, M. S. Baxter, October 10, 1916. Type in the herbarium of the New York State Museum. Related to Veronica americana, but differing chiefly in the broader leaves which are blunt or rounded at both ends, the racemes chiefly from the lower or middle nodes and the larger sepals and bracts. Hickories of the Rochester Parks Through the courtesy of John Dunbar of the Rochester city parks department a good collection of the native species of Hicoria of the vicinity of Rochester was secured on July 19th. Notes were made regarding the species and varieties, and while the fruits were not fully mature, the condition of them and the foliage was most favor- able for study and comparison. Hicoria ovata var. fraxinifolia (Sargent) Ashe. (Jour. E. Mitch. Soc. 34: 133. 1918) Carya ovata var. fraxinifolia Sargent, Trees & Shrubs, 2: 207. 1913. A rather distinct variety, reported from the vicinity of Rochester, Monroe county; Conesus lake, Livingston county, and Mount Morris and Macedon, Wayne county ; Canandaigua, Ontario county, and Indian river, Lewis county. Hicoria ovata var. nuttallii (Sargent) Ashe, l. c. 132 Carya ovata var. nuttallii Sargent, 1. c. 207. C. microcarpa Nutt. Silva N. Am., 1:39. ¢. 13. 1842, Not Nutt. 1818. A small fruited form of H. ovata, occasional in western New York. Specimens from Canandaigua collected by B. H. Slavin, cited by Sargent as typical, are to be seen in the herbarium of the Rochester park department. Hicoria glabra var. megacarpa (Sargent) Ashe, 1. c. 134. Carya megacarpa Sarg. Trees & Shrubs, 2:201. pl. CLXXX. 1013. Hicoria ovalis megacarpa Ashe, Torreya, 18:74. 1918. Carya glabra var. megacarpa Sarg. Bot. Gaz., 66: 244. 1918. The type of this variety is a wild tree, growing in Seneca Park, Rochester, and occurs also in Highland Park. Specimens of the Seneca Park tree were collected and the tree is quite certainly a well- REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ rs marked variety of the common Hicoria glabra. It has been reported from near Ithaca, and occurs also near Albany (Houtse, IQIQ). Hicoria ovalis (Wangenheim) Ashe, 1. c. 133. Juglans ovalis Wangenheim, Nordam. Holz., 24. t. zo. f. 23. 1787. Hicoria microcarpa Britton & Brown, Illus. Fl., 1: 486. f. 1757. 10908; Britton & Shafer, N. Am. Trees, 236. f. 193. 1908, as to tree described, not Carya microcarpa Nutt. Carya ovalis Sarg. Trees & Shrubs, 2: 207. 1913. Collected in Seneca and Highland Parks, Rochester, and also in Maplewood Park and on Cobb’s hill. The species appears to be fre- quent or locally abundant across the State south of the Adirondacks. It is common near Albany and has been collected in several localities in western New York. Sargent reports it from Staten Island Several distinct variations are noticeable. Hicoria ovalis var. obcordata (Muhl.) Ashe, 1. c. 134. Juglans obcordata Muhl. in Neue Schr. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berlin, 3: 392. 1I8o!. J. porcina var. obcordata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 638. 1814. Carya microcarpa Nutt. Gen., 2: 221, in large part. 1818. Carya porcina Spach, Hist. Veg., 2: 178. 1834. Not Nutt. Hicoria microcarpa Britton, Torr. Club Bul., 15: 283. 1888. H. glabra var. odorata Sarg. Silva, 7: 167, in part. 18095. Carya ovalis var. obcordata Sarg. Trees & Shrubs, 2: 208. 1913. Maplewood Park, Rochester, Laney. Collection by H. D. House, No. 6546, made from same tree as Slavin’s No. 55. Reported from several other localities in western New York. Hicoria ovalis var. odorata (Marsh.) Ashe, 1. c. 134. Juglans alba odorata Marsh. Arb. Am. 68. 1785. Hicoria microcarpa Britton, l.c. in part. Carya ovalis var. odorata Sarg. Trees & Shrubs, 2: 208. 1913. Hicoria microcarpa Raf. Alsog. Am., 66, 67. 1838. A rather frequent form of the small-fruited hickory, easily distin- guished by the strong pungent odor of the husks. Seneca Park, House, No. 6551. Near Albany, House. Of general distribution across the State south of the Adirondacks, southward to the north shore of Long Island. . Hicoria ovalis var. acuta (Sargent) comb. nov. Carya porcina var. acuta Sarg. Trees & Shrubs, 2: 200. 1913. C. ovalis var. obovalis Sarg.., l.c. 200. C. ovalis var. obovalis forma acuta Sarg. Bot. Gaz., 66: 247. 1018. Seneca Park, B. H. Slavin, No. 4, 1910. Collection from the same tree, House. Maplewood Park, House, No. 6552 (Slavin’s No. I4 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 23). Also reported from Conesus lake, Dunbar; and from Mendon, Monroe county, Laney & Horsey. There appears to be no good varietal distinction between the so-called varieties acuta and obovalis. x Hicoria laneyi (Sargent) comb. nov. Carya laneyi Sarg. Trees & Shrubs, 2: 196. pl. CLXXVIII. 1913. A hybrid species between H. cordiformis and H. ovata. Known only from Riverside cemetery, Rochester. x Hicoria dunbarii (Sargent) comb. nov. Carya dunbarti Sarg. Bot. Gaz., 66: 254. 1918. \ hybrid species between H. laciniosa and H. ovata. Known from the bottomlands of the Genesee river at Golah, Monroe county, Dunbar; and Mount Morris, Livingston county, Dunbar. Oneida County Panicum tenessense Ashe Fields near Taberg, H. D. House, No. 5648, July 21, 1914. A grass of rather general distribution, now known in this State from the counties of Fulton, Oneida, Herkimer, Essex, Tompkins and St Lawrence. Antennaria canadensis var. isabellina Greene, var. nov. (A. isabellina Greene, in herb.) Similar to Antennaria canadensis, but. the bractsiand stems reddish, often the under surfaces of the cauline leaves tinged with red; basal leaves strongly apiculate; the outer bracts of the inflorescence with broader, white, petaloid tips, which are more con- spicuous than in the typical form of the species. Frequent in central New York, in Oneida, Herkimer and Madison counties, and represented by several collections by Dr J. V. Haberer. The type is the collection by Haberer, No. 3160, at Hackedam road, Frankfort Hill, Herkimer county, May 27 and June 3, 1910, in the New York State herbarium. A duplicate of this is sheet No. 647233 in the national herbarium. A collection from Twin Mountain, Ver- mont (Eggleston, No. 2597, May 26, 1901, distributed as var. randii) appears to be the same. REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 15 Tioga County Veronica brittonii Pennell In moist or wet places, Apalachin, Tioga county, Ff. E. Fenno, Ig00 (as Veronica anagallis-aquatica). Doctor Pen- nell also reports this new species from ,New Baltimore, Greene county, Flushing, Spring Valley and Jamaica, Long Island, and Tappan, Rockland county. Washington County Veronica glandifera Pennell In calcareous places, near Vaughns, Washington county, Burnham, 1910. Brook west of Kingsbury street, north of Hudson Falls, Burnham, 1918. Both specimens referred by Mr Burnham to Veronica anagallis-aquatica. Lespedeza intermedia (S. Wats.) Britton Hedysarum frutescens L. Sp. Pl. 748. 1753. L. violacea var. sessiliflora T. & G. Fl. N. Am., 1: 367. 1840. Torr. Fl. N. Y., 1: 183. 1843. Not L. sessiliflora Michx. L. reticulata S. Wats. Bibliog. Index, 1: 233. 1878. Not Pers. 1807. L. stuvei var. intermedia S. Wats.; Gray, Man. ed. 6, 147. 1890. L. frutescens Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 205. 1894. Not Elliott, 1824. Dresden Station, Washington county, Peck. Apparently close to the northern limits of this species in the eastern part of the State. Southward the species is common and its range extends westward across the State to Oswego and Monroe counties. NOTES ON FUNGI VII The species of fungi noted in the following pages consist in part of collections by the State Botanist and also of determinations of unnamed material collected by Dr C. H. Peck, or material which was erroneously identified by Doctor Peck, especially in the Thele- phoraceae, and which has been critically reexamined by Dr E. A. Burt. The following species are apparently new to the state flora: Aleurodiscus penicillatus Burt Belonidium heteromorphum (EL. & EF.) Sace. Cladosporium gleosporoides Atk. Coniophora byssoidea (Pers.) Fr. Corticium atrovirens Berk. ; bombycinum Sommerf. lactescens Berk. lividum Pers. “ “cc 16 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Corticium roseum Pers. Cyphella laeta Fr. * mucigena Pers. Fomitiporia laminata Murrill Gloeosporium venetum Speg. Hymenochaete badio-ferruginea (Moni.) Hypochnus isabellinus Fr. FY pallescens (Schw.) Burt Lachnea coprinaria Cooke Merulius terrestris (Peck) Burt Nectria sulphurea (Ell. & Calk.) Sacc. Pyrenopeziza heteromorphum (E. & E.) Sacc. Aleurodiscus farlowii Burt Duanesburg, Schenectady county, on hemlock (Tsuga cana- densis), Dr C. H. Peck (year not given). Washington county, Burnham. Aleurodiscus penicillatus Burt North Elba, Essex county, on underside of dead spruce limbs. Dr C: HH. Peck Ascobolus geophilus Seaver (Mycologia, 8:96. 19:6) Collected at Albany, on earth, by Dr C. H. Peck (date uncertain). Determined by Dr. F. J. Seaver. Doctor Peck apparently recognized it as undescribed and gave to it an herbarium name. Belonidium heteromorphum (E. & E.) Sacc. On dead, culms of Spartina, mich aax vam) ences South Bay, Madison county. H. D. House, June 17, 1918. Doctor Seaver makes this determination with some doubt. The type of the species was collected in Louisiana on Spartina, and this ma- terial from New York is closely related if not identical. Cercospora boehmeriae Peck On living and languishing leaves of Boehmeria cylin- drica. Sylvan Beach, Oneida county. H. D. House, August 29, 1918. The type collection by Peck at South Ballston, appears to be the only other collection from this State. Cercospora caulophylli Peck On leaves of Caulophyllum’ thalictroides. ' Lake Bonaparte, Lewis county. H. D. House, June 15, 1919. A rather common parasitic leaf fungus upon this host. The state herbarium contains specimens from the Helderberg mountains, Peck; More- REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, I9QIQ 1 5 housville, Boreas, McConnellsville and North Elba, Peck; Catskill mountains, Shear; Taberg, House. Cercospora granuliformis Ell. & Holw. On living and languishing leaves of Viola sororia Willd. Oneida, Madison county. H. D. House, July 17, 1918. Cercospora longispora Peck On leaves of Lupinus perennis L. Near New London, Oneida county. H. D. House, July 12, 1919. Cladosporium gleosporoides Atk. On leaves of Triadenum virginicum (L.) Raf. (Hy- pericum virginicum L.). Fourth lake, Herkimer county. H. D. House, August 9, 1919. Coniophora byssoidea (Pers.) Fr. On dead spruce wood. Ottawa, Canada; on Acer sacchari- num and on old pine logs. J. M. Macoun, No. 142 (1897) ; No. 290 (1897) ; No. 317 (1892) ; No. 534 (1892). Determined by Dr E. A. Burt. Calosphaeria pulchella (Pers.) comb. nov. Sphaeria pulchella Pers. Disp., 3. 1797. Valsa pulchella Fr. Summa Veg. Scand. 412. 1849. Calosphaeria princeps Tul. Sel. Fung. Carp., 2: 109. t. XIII. f. 17-22. 1863. On dead branches of Prunus pennsylvanica. Sandlake, Peck. On dead branches of Aronia arbutifolia. Karner, Peas Calosphaerita wahlenbergii, in herb. Botrytis sphaeriae-typhinae (Corda) Sacc. Parasitic on Epichloe typhina (Pers.) Tul. on Pani- cularia nervata. Castle swamp, Oneida, Madison county. H. D. House, July 8, 1918. Clitocybe media Peck 42d Rep’t N. Y. State Mus., p. 114 (Bot. ed., p. 18) Pl. 1, fig. g-12 1880. 48th Rep’t N. Y. State Mus., p. 271, pl. 23. fig. 1-7. 1806. In low open woods near Oneida. H. D. House, September, 1918. A rare species, and one apparently but little understood, the description by Peck involving two distinct things and his illustrations very defective. The redescription here is based upon the type speci- mens and the fresh specimens collected at Oneida. 18 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Redescription. Pileus somewhat fleshy in the middle, 4-7 cm broad, top-shaped to nearly plane or considerably depressed in the middle, brownish gray to blackish or smoky gray, surface dry, margin somewhat irregular not inclined to be reflexed in drying. Flesh white, thin, not stained with age or drying. Gills decurrent, thick, blunt on the margin, up to 5°mm in width, sparingly dicho- tomously branched, distant, at first whitish becoming with age and on drying distinctly buff colored, conspicuously intervenose espe- cially toward the margin. Stem 4-6 cm long, 5-10 mm thick, usually somewhat upwardly attenuate, glabrous-striated, pallid or grayish or smoky, but distinctly paler in color than the pileus, and white at the base, hollow in the Oneida specimens, apparently solid or stuffed in the type. Spores white in mass, broadly elliptical, 7-8 x 3-4 micr. Peck’s type collection of this species consists of two distinct things. As he pointed out in the original description “two forms are distinguishable.” The ones with “lamellae slightly rounded behind and adnate or abruptly terminated” is apparently Cli- tocybe clavipes, at least the gills are closer and not inter- venose. As to color we can not judge very accurately from the dried specimens but the colors must have been approximately the same asin C. media or he would not have confused them. I take as the type of his Clitocybe medzia, those larger specimens of the original collection which show the characters ‘upon which in the description he lays so much stress, namely, the inter- venose character of the subdistant decurrent gills. The specific name media was given to this by Peck because of its apparent position between two other species of Clitocybe. As a mat- ter of fact at is very unlike any other species of Clitocybe, but the name media is still appropriate because the plant appears when fresh to be as properly a species of Cantherellus as of Clitocybe. Corticium atrovirens Berk. Syracuse. L. M. Underwood, No. 44. September 1888. Deter- mined by Dr E. A. Burt. Corticium bombycinum Sommf. Kenwood, Albany county, on willow (Salix, sp.). S. H. Burn- ham. November 16, 1907. Determined by Dr E. A. Burt. Corticium confluens Fr. North Albany, on dead limbs of Crataegus; and North Elba on dead bark of balsam fir (Abies balsamea). Dr C. H. Peck. Determined by Dr E. A. Burt. REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 1g Corticium lactescens Berk. North Greenbush. Dr C. H. Peck. Determined by Dr E. A. Burt. Corticium lacteum Fr. Warrensburg, Warren county, on dead limbs of balsam fir (Abies balsamea). Dr C. H. Peck, October 19. Determined by Dr E. A. Burt. Corticium lividum Pers. Ampersand, Franklin county, on spruce and also in the Catskill mountains, Dr C. H. Peck. Determined by Dr E. A. Burt. Corticium roseum Pers. Minnewaska, on fallen pine limbs. Dr C. H. Peck. Determined by Pr KA. Burt. Cyphella laeta Pers. Summit, Schoharie county, on roots of some plant. Dr C. H. Peck, September. Determined by Dr E. A. Burt. Cyphella muscigena Pers. On moss, Polytrichum, sp. Floodwood, Franklin county. Me t1..Peck. Determined by! Dr,E, A. Burt, Didymosphaeria parnassiae (Peck) Sacc. On dead stems of grass-of-parnassus, Parnassia caro- liniana. Bergen swamp, Genesee county. H. D. House, July 18, 1919. Discula discoidea (Cke. & Peck) comb. nov. Discella discoidea Cke. & Peck, 28th Rep’t N. Y. State Mus., p. 58, pl. 1, fig. 34-37. 1876. Discula peckiana Sacc. Syll. Fung., 3:675. 1884. On dead branches of Carpinus caroliniana. Green- Mash Dy C.; HiyPeck; 1875.) Type. Fomitiporia laminata Murrill On dead branches of the nine-bark (Opulaster opuli- folius (L.) Kuntze). Albany. H. D. House, October, 19109. Determined by Dr W. A. Murrill. In some cases extending up and down the dead limbs for several inches. Pores stuffed and so minute as to be scarcely discernible to the naked eye. At the base of the 2 20 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM same limbs were also found a few semipileated specimens of Fomes, conchatus, (PRers.))) Gill (Pe tooo made s conchatus Murrill). Gloeosporium venetum Speg. On canes of the cultivated “Snyder variety” of blackberry, near Schenectady. Theodore B. Clausen. The macroscopic appearance of the disease resembles that caused by Gloeosporium phaeosporum (see Peck, Mus. Bul. 67, p. 29), but the spores are smaller and match the measurements for G. venetum (7-8x 2~-2.5 micr.). The latter, however, is said to occur upon the leaves of Rubus. Dr F. C. Stewart, to whom the material was referred, states that it can be referred to G. venetum only provisionally, and by spore size alone. Hypocrea pallida E. & E. On bark of Fagus granditolia Erhr. "Star Uake, St Law. rence county. Dr C. H. Peck, 1907. Determined by Dr F. J. Seaver. Reported, by Doctor’’ Peck’ '(Mus? Bull''122) \p, /22))" 11gosyees Hy pec Teaup OF vapor. Oo 1.diea: jan oe. Hymenochaete badio-ferruginea ( Mont.) Indian Lake, Hamilton county, Dr C. H. Peck. Determined by DrE. Ay Burt: Hypochnus atroruber (Peck) Burt Syracuse. L. M. Underwood, No. 40, 1886. Mount Tom, Massachusetts, Harkness. Type. Determined by Dr E. A. Burt. Hypochnus isabellinus Fr. Ray Brook, om A’cer saccharum, Dr C. Pecks Ment Greenbush, Dr C. H. Peck. Fine, St Lawrence county, on decayed and decorticated wood of spruce, Dr C. H. Peck. Bergen, Genesee county, on wood of Tilia americana, Dr C. H. Peck. Deter- mined by Dr E. A Bure Hypochnus pallidofulvus (Peck) Burt (Zygodesmus pallidofulvus Peck. H. subferrugineus Burt) Lyndonville, Orleans county, Fairman. Type. Sylvan Beach, Oneida county, on decayed oak, H. D. House, October 12, 1915. Karner, Albany county, on fallen limbs of chestnut, H. D. House, October 28, 1916. Determined by Dr E. A. Burt. REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 21 Hysterium thujae (Roberge) comb. nov. (H. pinastri var thujae Roberge) On dead and languishing, fallen twigs of Arbor vitae, Thuja occidentalis L. Fourth lake, Herkimer county, H. D. House, August 8, 1919. Also collected by Doctor Peck at North Elba, on the same host. Lachnea coprinaria Cooke On cow dung. Piseco, Hamilton county. Dr C. H. Peck. Deter- mined by Dr F. J. Seaver. Lophodermium exaridium Cke. & Peck On leaves of Kalmia angustifolia. Near Fourth lake, Herkimer county. H. D. House, August 14, 1919. Associated wae phacrella colorata, Peck: Microdiplodia populi Dearness, sp. nov. Pycnidia black, rugose, shining, semi-immersed in the gray, weathered surface of the wood, conic, 75-100 micr. in diameter ; ostiola short but distinct, pertuse; spores smoky brown, uniseptaite, 7-9 X 3-4 micr. On decorticated weathered wood of Populus sp., La Junta, toorado, C. Jj. Pringle)’ No”'7,’"March 290, 1881. Type in the herbarium of the New York State Museum. Merulius terrestris (Peck) Burt Near Albany, on and beneath much decayed coniferous wood. Fi? D: House, October 15, 1919. Determined by Dr E. A. Burt. Originally described from Michigan as a variety of M. lacry- mans, and since found in Vermont, Massachusetts and Nebraska _ (Burt, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 4: 346-47. 1917. Nectria sulphurea (Ell. & Calk.) Sacc. On an old decayed Agaric. Mechanicville, Saratoga county. Dr Pie eck. Determined byoDriF., J: Seaver? Nigredo houstoniata (Schw.) J. Sheldon On leaves of Houstonia longifolia. Glenmont, Albany county. H.D. House, May 23, 1o1g9. bo bo NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Nummularia nummularia (Bul.) comb. nov. Hypoxylon nummutarium Bull. Champ. de Franc. t. 468. f. 4. 1789. Sphaeria nummularia DC. Fl. Fr., 2: 290. 1802. Sphaeria clypeus Schw. Syn. Fung. Car., No. 42. 1822. Nummularia bulliardi Tul. Sel. Fung. Carp., 2:43. t. V. f. 11-19. 1863. N. clypeus Cooke, Grevillea, 12:6. 1883. On dead limbs of Quercus alba. Sylvan Beach, Oneida county! “H. D. House)29i5.; On» Paeus erandirore Lyndonville, Orleans county, Fairman. Patellaria peckii nom. nov. Tryblidium clavisporum Peck, 35th Ann. Rep't N. Y. State Mus., p. 143. Patellaria clavispora Sacc. Syll. Fung., 8: 787. 1889. Not Berk. & Br. On decorticated wood of Salix nigra. Albany, Dr C. H. Peck, 0 ihype. , Phialea scutula (Pers.) Gill. On dead stems of Polymnia* canadensis L ¥ Seren swamp, Genesee county. H. D. House, 1918. Determined by Dr B.. Seaver. Peniophora carnosa Burt Hague, Warren county, on Juniperus virginiana var. depressa Pursh. Dr C. H. Peck, September 19, 1900. Deter- mined by Dr E. A. Burt. Peniophora greschickii Bres. On bark of Arbor vitae,, 7 huj.a,ocerdentalis., La Neste River, Warren county. Dr C. H. Peck, September 27, 1911. Deter- mined by Dr E. A. Burt. Peniophora subincarnata (Peck) Burt On decayed wood of spruce, Floodwood, Franklin county, and Cascade, Essex’ county. “Dr’'C. Hi. Peck. "Determined by ets Burt. Peniophora gigantea (Fr.) Cooke On wood of pine. Mechanicville, Saratoga county. Dr C. H. Peck. Determined by Dr E. A. Burt. Peniophora globifera E. & E. On spruce. Slope of Mount McIntyre. Dr C. H. Peck. Deter- mined by Dr E. A. Burt. Peniophora heterocystidia Burt On Carpinws caroliniana. Snyder's) Dr Ghee Determined by Dr E. A. Burt. REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 23 Phyllachora panici (Schw.) Sacc. On leaves of Panicum clandestinum. South Bay, Madi- son county. H.D. House, September 5, ro19. Other collections in the State herbarium are on Panicum dichotomum, lati- pelmum, virgatum’ and “wrightian wm. Phliyctaena complanata (B. & C.) On dead stems of Polygonum virginicum L. Oneida, Madison county. H. D. House, May 20, 1918. Phyllosticta steironematis Dearness & House On living leaves of Steironema ciliata (L.) Raf. Sylvan Beach, Oneida county. H. D. House, August 30, 1918. Scolocotrichum graminis Fckl. On living and languishing leaves of Orchard grass, Dactylis glomerata L. Oneida, Madison county. H. D. House, July 17, 1918. Pyrenopeziza artemisiae (Lasch) Sacc. On dead stems of Lactuca hirsuta. Oneida, Madison poumiys ¥ EL) DS House, July 18, 1918. Determined by Dr F. .J. Seaver. Puccinia commutata Sydow (Allodus commutata (Syd.) Arthur) On leaves and stems of Valeriana uliginosa (T. & G.) Rydb. Bonaparte swamp, Lewis county. H. D. House, June 14, 1919. This is the second station in this State for this rare rust, it having been found in 1918, near Jordanville, Herkimer county. Puccinia curtipes Howe On leaves of Saxifraga virginensis. Lake Bonaparte, Lewis county. H. D. House, June 15, 19109. Puccinia trientalis (Tranz.) comb. nov. Aecidium trientalis Traz. Gobi Rostp. S. Petersb. 116. 1891; Zeitschr. Pflanzenkr. 103. 1802. Puccima karelica Tranz. Centralbl. fr. Bakter. u. Parass. II Abt. 11: 106. 1903. Type from Russia on Carex limosa. The telial stage of this rust has been identified in New York by Doctor Arthur, upon the following hosts: Carex limosa, C. pauperctila, C. canescens andC. diandra. The aecial 24 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM stage on Trieméalis) bor ealws jywassiirst ‘collected m this State by S. H. Burnham, in the East Lake George marshes. It was found rather abundantly during 1919 at Bonaparte swamp, northern Lewis county, the aecial stageon Trientalis borealis Raf., and the telial stage on Carex paupercula Michx. Pezicula carpinea (Pers.) Tul. On; dead limbs, of, ‘Car pinws carom naa na,.) Bish) Greek Oneida county. H.D. House, July 18, 1918. Polythelis thalictri (Chev.) Arthur (Puccinia thalictri Chev.) On leaves of Thalictrum dioicum. Little Falls, Herki- mer county. H. D. House, June 10, 1919. Other collections of this rust from New York are: Fishkill mountain, Petersburg, Central Bridge, Bethlehem and Karner, Dr C. H. Peck. Buffalo, Clinton. Syracuse, Underwood. Irondequoit, Monroe county, House. Septoria increscens Peck Averill Park, Rensselaer county, on leaves of Trientalis borealis. H.D. House, June 23, 1919. Vernon, Oneida county, H. D. House, June 11, 1919. Several other collections from various parts of the State, in the state herbarium, on this host, indicate that it is a rather common species. Septoria nabali B. & C. On leaves of Nabalus altissimus (L.) Hook. Vernon, Oneida county, H. D. House, June 11, 1919. It has also been col- lected at Jamesville, Onondaga county (House, 1915) and by Doctor Peck at Sandlake and Boreas River. Septoria scutellariae Thum. On living leaves of Scutellaria daterat)oraiiasPounth lake, Herkimer county. H. D. House, August 11, 19109. Togninia transversa (Sacc. & Fairm.) House. comb nov. Erostella transversa Sacc. & Fairm. Jour. Myc. 12:48. 1906 On bark of Betula, sp. Lyndonville, Orleans county. Fairman, September 1905. Erostella, a subgenus of Calosphaeria (Sacc. Syli., 1: Iot. 1882), was raised to generic rank by Traverso (FI. Ital. Crypt. REPORT OF ‘THE STATE ‘BOTANIST, IQIQ 25 Fungi Pyren. fasc., I, 155. 1906.) Asa generic name for this group, Togninia Berl. (Icon. Fung., 3:9. 1900) must take precedence. One other species, Togninia cornicola (E. & E.) Berl. (Calos- phaeria cornicola E. & E.) has been collected in this State on Cornus paniculata, at Bethlehem by Doctor Peck. Vermicularia peckii Sacc. On leaves of Trillium undulatum. Averill Park, Rens- selaer county. H.D. House, June 23, 1919. Vermicularia violae-rotundifoliae (Sacc.) House Omleaves of Viola rotundifolia. Little Falls. H. D. House, June 10, 1919. Other collections are Sandlake, Peck; Taberg, Peck, House; North Elba, Essex county, Peck. Uredinopsis mirabilis (Peck) Magn. On living and languishing fronds of Woodwardia vir- ginica. Sylvan Beach, Oneida county, H. D. House, August 29, 1918. Also the same locality on fronds of Onoclea sensi- bilis, and on Onoclea at South Bay, Madison county. AWN, INDEX): TO- THE NEW, YORK, SPECIES .OF MYCOSPHAERELLA The genus Mycosphaerella Johans. (Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Forhandlinger, 9: 163. 1884), must apparently replace the older and well-known name Sphaerella Ces. & DeNot. (Schema Sfer. Ital. 62. 1863) which is invalidated by the algal generic name Sphaerella Sommerfelt (1824). The following list is based upon material in the state herbarium. 1 Mycosphaerella ailanthi (Ell. & Barth) sphaerella ailanth?i, Ell}& Barth Dead branches of Ailanthus glandulosa Desf. Albany (House, 1915). 2 Mycosphaerella alnicola (Peck) Sphaerella alnicola Peck Dead leaves of Alnus viridis, Mt Marcy, Peck, type. Lower Ausable, Peck. 3 Mycosphaerella altera ( Pass.) Sphaerella altera Pass. On dead stems of Equisetum hyemale, Karner, Albany county, Peck. SE 20 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 4 Mycosphaerella arbutifoliae (Peck) Sphaeredla naab wtat oliae.pRéck On fallen leaves of Aronia arbutifolia, Karner, Peck, type. Fallen leaves of A. melanocarpa, Karner, House. 5 Mycosphaerella asterinoides (E. & E.) Fairman On dead stems of Dipsacus sylvestris. Lyndonville, Fairman; Clyde, O. F. Cook. 6 Mycosphaerella berberidis Awd. On fallen leaves of Berberis thunbergii, cultv. Lyndon- ville, Fairman (Ann. Myc., 8: 330. 1910). 7 Mycosphaerella chimaphilina (Peck) Sphaerella, chimaphilae Peck,> not Eek Sphaerella chimaphilina ‘Peek; Sace On fallen leaves of Chimaphila umbellata, Coopers- town Junction, Peck, type. 8 Mycosphaerella ciliata (E. & E.) Sphaeretha Mciita va heme wr On dead stems of Steironema ciliata, Sylvan Beach, Oneida county, House, 1915. Q Mycosphaerella citrullina. (C. O. Smith) Grossenbacher. Sphaerella citrullina C.O. Smith. Pycnidial stage said to be Diplodina citrullina. On stems of C wetum exrsrxiunmel ones. Gs satis swandaeeie rullus vulgaris. 10 Mycosphaerella clintoniana. SplraerelTa''rhododen dri’ Che, Jour Bot. 108. 1883, not DeNot: Sphaerella clintoentane touse,o ee State Mus. Bul. 205-206, p. 40. 19109. On fallen leaves of Rhododendron maximum. Buffalo, Clinton. 11 Mycosphaerella colorata (Peck) Sphaerella colorasa ees On living and languishing leavesof Kalmia angustifolia. Karner, Peck, Type; Averyville swamp, Peck; Grassy pond, Peck.. Pecksport, House; Fourth lake, Herkimer county, House. 12 Mycosphaerella conigena ( Peck) Sphaerella conigena. Peck 33d Rept’ N. Y-~ State Mus. p. 34. 1880. Sphaerella conicola Peck; Sace. in Syll. Add. 1-4: 75. 1886. REPORT ‘OF ‘THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 27 On cone scales of Thuja occidentalis. Helderberg moun- tains, Peck, 1879, type. Elizabethtown, Essex county, Peck. 13 Mycosphaerella coptis (Schw.) Sphaetuaj.captiss Sehw.i. pheaerella,.¢ opts Farlow, Appalachia 3: 247. 1884. On languishing leaves of Coptis trifolia. Fourth lake, Herkimer county, House. i4 Mycosporella cruris-galli (Ell. & Kellerm.) Lindau. Sphaerella cruris-galli Ell. & Kellerm. On dead leaves of Trideus flavor (L.) Hitchcock. Wading River, Peck. 15 Mycosphaerella cypripedii (Peck) mounaenella cy pripe d11,,Peck On leaves of Cypripedium insigne, cultv. Bay Ridge, het. .C. Stewart, type. 16 Mycosphaerella depressa (Peck) Sohaerella ‘depressa Peck Morcead stems. of, Lactuca, sp.. Karner, Peck, type. 17 Mycosphaerella fragariae (Tul.) Johans. & Magn. Smenerta, iracaniae ‘Tul. 156; Stigmatea Pomeariac (“ruil mo3- kamularira ” tulasn ei Sacer foo Raimuwlaria 'fragariae’ Peck, 1883. Common on leaves of Fragaria vesca, F. virginica, Pe americana. 18 Mycosphaerella effigurata (Schw.) Panrareria errr arata’Schw., ophaerélla ¢ff1- errata tre Yop nacre lla "trax in ea Peck! On fallen leaves of Fraxinus americana. New Balti- more, Helderberg mountains, Guilderland and Greenbush, Peck. 19 Mycosphaerella fraxinicola (Schw.) Seeaceria trax in ienihal Sehwih! > :Sipiaer ella ira xi m1uee la) \ Cooke; On fallen leaves of Fraxinus americana. Bethlehem. Albany county, Peck. 20 Mycosphaerella gaultheriae (C. & R.) sphacrella. saultheriae C. & R. “mn leaves of Gaultheria. procumbens... Albany, House; Karner, Peck. 21 Mycosphaerella ilicella (Cooke) Sphaerella ilicella Cooke. On leaves of Ilex opaca (Gerard, Grevillea 8:119) 28 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 22 Mycosphaerella impatientis (Peck) Sphaerella, lmpatrentts: Peck. On living and languishing leaves of Impatiens fulva Buffalo, Clinton, type. Lakeport, Peck. Adirondack mountains, Peck (Thum. M. U. No. 963). 23 Mycosphaerella indistincta (Peck) Lindau. Sphaerella |i dis tineta jeeck On dead fronds of Pteris aqualina. Hunter, Greene county, Lake Pleasant, Hamilton county and Karner, Albany county. Peck. 24. Mycosphaerella lycopodii (Peck) sphawerella ly comida: tmeek On leaves and sporophylls of the strobili of Lycopodium clavatum., Aiden Lair, Essex county, Peck; type. 25 Mycosphaerella macularis (Fr.) Schroter. Sphaeria macularis Pr. Sphaéerell ay eae Pa fis. sac. On fallen leaves of Populus tremuloides. Adirondack mountains, Peck. 26 Mycosphaerella maculiformis (Pers.) Johans. & Magn. Sphaeriamacnulifor mis PersiyS piraere vrs ae culiformis «Anersw.,| Sphaerella.ob14 year cana, & simulans, Cooke On fallen leaves of Hicoria alba, Bethlehem, Peck. Fallen leaves of Castanea dentata, Portage, Clinton; North Green- bush, Peck; New Scotland, Peck. Fallen leaves of Quercus acuminata, North Greenbush, Peck. Fallen leaves of Ame- lanchier canadensis),, Karner, Peck. 27 Mycosphaerella opuntiae (E. & E.) Dearness. Sipihiae re] Da.lomp, uv nitiiaiet ben: On dead and languishing sections of Opuntia opuntia (L.) Coulter. Long Island, Peck. 28 Mycosphaerella orbicularis (Peck) Sphaerella’ orbtewlaris Peck On upper surface of fallen leaves of Populus grandi- dentata, Karner, Peck, type. REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 29 29 Mycosphaerella perparva (Sacc.) Sp bhgerella minutissiim a Peck; not) West. Sph- aerella perparva Sacc. On dead leaves of Alnus incana, hanging on tree, Marcy landing, Essex county, Peck, type. On fallen leaves of Alnus viridis, Marcy trail, Essex county, Peck. 30 Mycosphaerella pinsapo (Thum.) epmaerella pins ap ox Thum: On fallen leaf-twigs of Thuia occidentalis. Port Henry, Peck. 30 Mycosphaerella plantaginicola (Schw.) Dearness. p. 38 mptacria plantaginicolal Schw. On languishing leaves of Plantago major. New London, Oneida county, House, 1918. 32 Mycosphaerella pontedereae (Peck) poeewaerella ' pontederene yReck SS phaerella paludosa ELE. & E. Mo weaves, of. Pontederta ,cordata,.,,,)\Whitehall, Peck, type. On leaves of Nymphaea advena. Hempstead, Long Island, House. 33 Mycosphaerella populifolia (Cooke) eeoeetrelia ‘populifolia, Cooke On fallen leaves of Populus balsamifera. North Elba, Peck. 34 Mycosphaerella populnea (Sacc.) Priaerella populnea. Sacej..Ann.. Myc, :13 115. 1915. Onleavesof Populus balsamifera. Tupper Lake, House, 1913. 35 Mycosphaerella punctiformis (Pers.) Johans. Ppeaeria’ ‘pnunetitornris ' Pers: Sphaerekha sparsa (Wallr.) Auersw. Sphaerella puncti- formis Rabh. On fallen leaves of: Acer saccharum, Helderberg mountains, Peck. Betula lenta, Spruce pond, Essex county, Peck. Betula lutea, Angola, Clinton. Castanea dentata, North Greenbush, Peck. go NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Fagus grandifolia, Helderberg mountains, Peck. Sand- lake, Peck. Grassy pond, Essex county, Peck. Buffalo, Clinton. Quercus prinus, North Greenbush, Peck. Quercus alba, North Greenbush, Peck. Tilia americana, Buffalo, Clinton. Vitis aestivalis, North'Greenbush, Perk: 36 Mycosphaerella recutita (Fr.) Johans. Spiaerella rT eee tat lit Onileaves of Carex ‘varia.’ (West Troy eck! 37 Mycosphaerella rubina (Peck). Sphaecrehba rr wbina shack On canes of Rubus Idaeus, cultv. Menands, Peck, type. Marlboro, Ulster county, Peck. 38 Mycosphaerella sarraceniae (Schw.) Sphaeria.. sat race n fae? schw. Spiwe rel te var e ace tale: Sace. On dead leaves of Sarracenia-purpure a Es "Sandia Peck. On dead flowering scapes of same host, Pecksport, Madison county, House. 39 Mycosphaerella septorioides (Desm.) Lindau. Sphaeria septoriei des Desn'” S praeaerme septorioides Niessel. On leaves of Acer saccharum. 40 Mycosphaerella spleniata (Cke. & Peck) Sphaerella splentata Cooke & Pecks *s irae were nigrita Cooke. On fallen leaves of: Quercus bicolor, North Greenbush, Peck; Sandlake, Peck; Montezuma, Peck. ‘O"rerct's” aime. Poughkeepsie, Gerard; Karner, Peck; Albany, Peck. Quercus prinoides, Albany, Peck. Quercus prinus, Greenbush, Peck. 41 Mycosphaerella thalictri (E. & E.) Lindau. sphaerella thalietricola ‘Sate oe wae mete septorio «des Peck not’ "Ntessl “7S pie e7 © lies thalietrivE’ es On living leaves of Thalictrum dioicum. Central Bridge, Peck. Canajoharie, Peck. REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 31 42 Mycosphaerella tsugae Sphaerella conigena Peck, 38th Rep’t, p. 104. 1885, not Hegknegd: Kept reso. Sphaerella peckii Sace. Syll., 9:649. 1891, not Speg. 1880. Sphaerella coni- co hac Bact. Eee Nw Am, Pyréni' 279; ‘not Sacc. Syll. Add., 1-4: 75. 1886, which is on Thuja (M. conigena), Dw co sip biavenmed lia prec kit Lindam) nuh Pi ‘Nat. Pflanzenfam., 1: pt 1, 425.1897. 5S. tsugae, House. On fallen cones of Tsuga canadensis. Helderberg moun- tains and Knowersville, Albany county, Peck. 43 Mycosphaerella typhae (Lasch) Lindau On dead leaves of Typha latifolia L., Carlisle and Green- Diem, eck.) (CReported:ias / Sphaenehla «( Sphaeria.) typhae Schw). 44 Mycosphaerella ulmi (Fr.) Kleb. Zeit. f. Pflanzenkr. 12 :257. iGo2, (oe ptoria ulm Fe, .619.;;Phieosp ora, wim i Wallr. 1833. Spermogonial stage of Phyllachora ulmi (Duv.) Fckl. On leaves of Ulmus fulva, Catskill mountains, Peck; New Baltimore, Howe. Ulmus montana, _ Bethlehem, Peck. Ulmus americana, Menands, Peck. 45 Mycosphaerella vaccinii (Cooke) Schroter. Sphaerella vaccimst Cooke :'S phiaere)lla imyr - tillii Auersw. On fallen leaves of Vaccinium uliginosum. Moun: Marcy, Peck. Fallen leaves of Vaccinium corymbosum, Spruce pond, Essex county, Peck (Sphaerella vaccinii var. ewrym bos Sacc.,) Nudvo Giorn. Bot!’ Ifal.°23°'No.?2, pis. 1916.) 46 Mycosphaerella verbascicola (Schw.) Fairman. Senaetia. verpasc¢aohka,, Sciw. > phaerelia VetTbascicol ai &)K) Dead stems of Verbascum thapsus L. Orleans county, Fairman. 47 Mycosphaerella weigeliae Fairman, Ann. Myc., 8:326. 1910. Solweretha wereeliae.iSacc.& Trott.;Sacc,.syll., 225097. \1Q1 3. On fallen leaves of Weigelia rosea, cultv. Lyndonville, Orleans county, Fairman. 32 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES OF FUNGI II BY JOHN DEARNESS and HOMER D. HOUSE Of the species of fungi mentioned in the following pages, 42 are new to the state flora and of them 14 are described here as new species. The new species are: Diaporthe menispermi Phomopsis impatientis e triostei Rhabdospora ambrosiae Didymella.,agrostidis Saccardtnuta) ain Gloeosporium acutiloba Septoria acetosellae Gnomoniopsis acerophila hieracicola Leptosphaeria collinsoniae Stagonospora meliloti Leptothyrirum conspicuum’ Venturia (fimibsiaia Among the species previously described, the following are recorded here for the first time for this State: Ascochyta thaspii E. & E. Cercospora epigaea Ell. & Dearn. cypripe di Ell. & Dearn. Diaporthe ace ris, ‘ck: cehast rina: El! & Barth: Didymelta super t lua (Eck) Diermatea lobata EIl. Gloeosporium paludosum Ell. & Galloway Hypoexylon transvernsum) (Schw.) \Saecc Hendersonia linderae Sacc Dendrophoma) pruinosa, (Pr) ‘Sace: Leptostromella scirpina Peck. Marsonia lonicerae Harkness Metasphacria amlieca l¢C. & E.) Sacc. Microthyrium microscopicum Desm. Mycosphaerella plantaginicola (Schw.) Dearness Phoma’ dubeamiarina. Sacc. Ramularia montana. (Speg.) Sacc. Sphaeropsis bh yad inia oB. ie C Staphylaiea | Brim. foliicola Berl. & Roum. Septoria hydrophylli Ell. & Dearn. vincae Desm. - leptostachyae Ell. & Kellerm. nt Place la ris; ee. B- Solenia poriaeformis: (OC) Bek Stagonospora, collapsia JCC. & E.) ySace ‘é The following species are not new to the State but are recorded ecause of their occurrence upon new hosts or being otherwise critical : Cercosp Ome atazdae 6c. E: Alternaria tenuis: Nees Gnomonia petiolophila (Peck) Berl. & Vogl. Lophodermium petiolicolum Fckl. REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 33 Periconia pycnosporea Fres. Pleospora herbarum (Pers.) Rabh. Venturia cassandrae Peck fi kalmiae Peck Alternaria tenuis Nees Attacking and killing the marginal and terminal tissues of leaves of the wild bean, Glycine apios L. (Apios tuberosa) Long Pond, Monroe county, August 22, 1918. H. D. House. Ascochyta thaspii E. & E. On living leaves of Thaspium barbinode. Trenton Falls, August 25, 1918. H. D. House. Cercospora cypripedii Ell. & Dearn. On living and languishing leaves of the showy lady’s-slipper Cypripedium reginae Walt. Castle swamp, Oneida, Madi- son county, August 27, 1918. H. D. House. 4 Cercospora epigaeae Ell. & Dearn. On languishing leaves of the trailing arbutus, Epigaea repens L., in the pine plains north of New London, Oneida county, June 17, 1918. H.D. House. At the same place, August 27, 1918 (material rather old), and at North Bay, Oneida county, June 17, 1918. Cercospora ziziae E. & E. On living leaves of Thaspium barbinode (Michx.) Nutt. Trenton Falls, Oneida county, August 25, 1918. H.D. House. The only other collection of this in the state herbarium was made on this host and at the same locality several years ago by Doctor Peck. Dendrophoma pruinosa (Fr.) Sacc. On dead twigs of black ash, Fraxinus nigra Marsh. Oneida, Madison county, July 8, 1918. H. D. House. Dermatea lobata Ell. On dead twigs of white oak, Quercus alba L., Islip, Long Island, May 24, 1895. Dr C. H. Peck. The specimen possesses thick paraphyses and sporidia 11-13 x 8-9 v ee 34 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Diaporthe aceris [ckl. On fallen trunk of red maple, Acer rubrum L., Sylvan Beach, Oneida county, May 16, 1918. H. D. House. Diaporthe celastrina Ell. & Barth. On dead stems of Celastrus scandens L., Oneida, Madi- son county, May 15, 1918. H. D. House. Diaporthe menispermi Dearness & House, sp. nov. Stromata scattered on the dead stems, two or three perithecia in a stroma, sunk in the wood and raising the epidermis into minute pustules, 300 to 350 micr. in diameter, contents gray ; ostiola cylindri- cal, crateriform, 60-70 mw across, emerging through a black disk very slightly above the uncolored epidermis. Asci paraphysate, fusoid, mostly about 45 x 7 p. Sporidia hyaline, 1-septate, subbiseriate, sometimes 2-nucleate, oblong-elliptic, obtuse at the ends, IO-II x 3% op. On dead stems of Menispermum canadenseL., Albany, N. Y., May te 1917. H.D. House. Type in the New York State Museum herbarium. The same collection contains some material of /-S:pth aie reps 1s) 4m én ps per min! Peck: Diaporthe triostei Dearness & House, sp. nov. Perithecia single or mostly in small groups of two to nine; 130 to 225 micr. in diameter. chiefly about 180 micr. developed immediately under the cuticle, staining the surface of the xylem but not penetrat- ing it or marking it in any way. Ostiola black, shining, sharply conical, minute piercing the cuticle so briefly as to be hardly per- ceptible to the touch. Asci spindleform, acute at both ends, 30-35 x 7-8 pw, rather scantily paraphysate. Sporidia hyaline, straight or nearly so, gradually acute at both ends, 1-septate, not constricted, 4-nucleate, 12-15 x 2% uy. On dead stems of Triosteum aurantiacum Bicknell. Glenmont, Albany county, May 15, 1919. H.D. House. Type in the New York State Museum herbarium. Didymella agrostidis Dearness & House, sp. nov. Perithecia scattered, immersed with only the firm ostiola erumpent, consisting of comparatively large brown cells ; depressed hemisphaeric REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 35 to subglobose, 250 to 350 micr. in diameter. Asci clavate, rounded at the top gelatinous walls 3-6 » thick 100 to 140 p» long, the longest one observed exceeding 150 p in length, about 15 » near the top and gradually narrowing to an acute, short-stipitate base, long paraphy- sate. Sporidia hyaline, 1-septate, somewhat constricted, subacute at each end, biseriate to congested near the upper end of the ascus, uniseriate toward the base, 30-33 x 6-7% u. On dead culms of Agrostis alba L., Albany, N. Y., June 3, 1918. H. D. House. Type in the New York State Museuin herbarium. Didymella superflua (Fckl.) Sacc. On dead stems of wild cucumber, Micrampelis lobata (Michx.) Greene, Sylvan Beach, Oneida county, June 17, 1918. H. D. House. The Didymella on this collection is somewhat flatter than the description in Saccardo requires, but is otherwise so near that it doubtless belongs in D. superflua. Gloeosporium acutiloba Dearness & House, sp. nov. Acervuli innate, large, .2 to .5 mm broad, visible from both sides of the leaf but more distinct on the lower surface, on large arid areas. Spores hyaline, oblong 4-8 x 2-2%4 » mostly 7 x 2 uw, nucleate at each end. On languishing leaves of Hepatica acutiloba DC. James- ville, Onondaga county, July 11, 1918. H.D. House. Type in the New York State Museum herbarium. Other leaves in the same collection contained Gloeosporium hepaticae Peck, which has smaller epiphyllous acervuli and large, cylindrical, 4-nucleate spores. Gloeosporium paludosum Ell. & Galloway. On living and languishing leaves of Peltandra virginica (L.) Kunth. Sylvan Beach, Oneida county, August 29, 1918. H. D. House. Gnomonia petiolophila (Peck) Berl. & Vogl. On fallen dead petioles of sugar maple, Acer saccharum Marsh. Oneida, Madison county, May 15, 1918. H. D. House. Originally collected on fallen petioles of Acer spicatum in the Adirondack mountains by Doctor Peck, and more recently on the same host at Albany (House). 3 36 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Gnomoniopsis acerophila Dearness & House, sp. nov. Perithecia under and entirely covered by the epidermis except the subulate ostiola, not at all or but slightly raising the cuticle ; depressed globose, curling-stone shaped, .6 to .8 mm in diameter; ostiola acuminate, .75 to I mm long, the tip hyaline for a distance of 180 to 200 micr. Asci lacking paraphyses, rather variable in shape, from that of a wide short sheaf to long cylindric, 33 x 23 to 90x 8yn, mostly obliquely saccate. Sporidia hyaline, parallel-congregate to biseriate, mostly 3 to 5 in the upper part of the ascus and over- lapping the others in the lower half, 1-5 septate, 24-30 x 312-4 p. On petioles of fallen leaves of the striped maple, Acer penn- sylvanicum L., Oneida, Madison county, May 15, 1918. H. D. House. Type in the New York State Museum herbarium. Hendersonia linderae Sacc. On dead branches of the spicebush, Benzoin aestivale (L.) Nees. Oneida, Madison county, May 15, 1918. H. D. House. The same collection contains in addition to the Hendersonia, two species of Diplodia, namely, Diplodia linderae EK. & E., and the other possibly Diplodia insitiva Sacc. Sac- cardo in publishing the latter did not give the measurements and although cotype material is available for comparison, it 1s a mixed lot and one can not be sure just what was described by Saccardo. There was also present a little material of Valsaria insitiva var. Hypoxylon transversum (Schw.) Sace. On dead limbs of yellow birch, Betula lutea Michx.f. Chittenango Falls, Madison county, May 17, 1918. H. D. House. Leptosphaeria collinsoniae Dearness & House, sp. nov. Perithecia scattered, gradually blackening the stems, covered by the cuticle, finally bare, globose-conic, rugose, papillate, 270 to 350 imicr. in diameter; ostiola cylindrical, merely piercing the cuticle. Asci terete, short-stipitate, 60-105 », mostly about 75 x 10; para- physes linear, longer than the asci. Sporidia amber colored, biseriate, straight or nearly so, widest in the middle, not constricted at the septa, gradually narrowing to the subacute ends, 5-8-septate, mostly 6-nucleate, 28-35, mostly 30-32 x 4 p. On dead, usually more or less blackened stems of the stone root, Collinsonia canadensis LL. ‘Oneida,’ Madison tonumty, REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, I9QIQ 37 July 17, 1918. H.D. House. Also collected on same host at North Greenbush, several years ago by Doctor Peck, the material somewhat immature. Obviously related to but differing in several characiers from Leptosphaeria acuta (Moug.) Karst. Leptostromella scirpina Peck On dead leaves of Scirpus cyperinus (L.) Kunth. Pecks- port, Madison county, May 18, 1918. H. D. House. Originally described from Nebraska on Scirpus atrovirens.. The Pecksport material is referred here although there are minor differences. In some of the pycnidia the spores are obtuse at one end and average under 19 micr. in length, but in others they are acute at both ends and reach 25 micr. in length. As a rule these are more orbicular than in the type material collected in Nebraska. Leptothyrium conspicuum Dearness & House, sp. nov. Spots reddish brown, irregular, 4 to 25 mm, in some instances extending over the whole leaf, darker above, the small spots defi- nitely limited by a raised reddish border which disappears with the . extension of the spot over the leaf. Pycnidia amphigenous, black, gregarious near the center of the spot or scattered over the whole area, circular, flat, subcuticular, becoming somewhat erumpent, rugose, .2 to .3 mm in diameter; conidia hyaline, 3.5—4 x I w, on short basidia. On living and languishing leaves of Vaccinium vacillans Kalm, near New London, Oneida county, July 20 and August 27, 1918. H. D. House. Type in the New York State Museurh herbarium. Lophodermium petiolicolum Fckl. On petioles of fallen dead leaves of black cherry, Prunus serotina Ehrh., May 15, 1918, near Oneida, Madison county. H. D. House. The state herbarium contains this fungus on fallen Patplkes, OL; Acer, saccharum,.Acer,saceharinua; Semis americana, Rhus plabra.jand Fraximus americana. Marsonia lonicerae Harkness On living leaves of swamp honeysuckle, Lonicera oblongi- folia (Goldie) Hook. Jordanville, Herkimer county, July 12, 1918. H. D. House. Apparently the first record of this parasitic leaf fungus in the eastern United States. 38 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Metasphaeria aulica (C. & E.) Sacc. On dead stems of Triosteum aurantiacum Bicknell. Glenmont, Albany county, May 9, 1918. H.D. House. The asci are clavate, 75 to 105 micr. long, narrowly elongate at the base. Sporidia 1-6 septate, mostly 5—septate, 24-28 x 3-4™% uy, constricted at the central septum and widest in the cell immediately above this septum. Microthyrium microscopicum Desm. On dead and languishing leaves of Vinca minor L. Chit- tenango Falls, Madison county, May 17, 1918. H. D. House. Mycosphaerella plantaginicola (Schw.) Dearness, comb. nov. (Sphaeria plantaginicola, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1806) On living leaves of Plantago major L., near New London, Oneida county, September 2, 1918. H. D. House. On these leaves are very minute, black perithecia containing globose asci, 15 mw in diameter, lacking paraphyses, and with 1-septate sporidia, 8 x 3-344 uw, which agree very nearly with Schweinitz’s “ Sphaeria plantaginicola, No. 1806,” fructification unknown. In Ellis’s list of Schweinitz’s Sphaeriae with unknown fructifica- tion, he states: “Sphaeria plantaginicola Schw.— peri- thecia minute, punctiform, black, innate on both sides of the leaf, subconically elevated, astomas, thickly but irregularly scattered, shin- ing, becoming empty, but hard so as to be with difficulty cut.” This agrees with the New London collection except the last item and that is true so far as the difficulty of getting the knife upon the perithecia because of their minuteness. Periconia pycnospora Fres. Onidead'stems of "Glycine apios ‘LY(A pies*ttberosa4 Moench), Sylvan Beach, Oneida county, August 30, 1918. H. D. House. Recorded in Europe from a number of hosts belonging to widely different families. Two collections by Doctor Peck in the state herbarium do not give the name of the hosts. Phoma dulcamarina Sacc. . On dead stems of Solanum dulcamara L., near Oneida, Madison county, May 15, 1918. H. D. House. REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 39 Phomopsis impatientis Dearness & House, sp. nov. Pycnidia black, subcuticular, very numerous, circular to subelon- gate, flattened, 270 to 360 micr.; ostiola, subcircular, short, merely penetrating the cuticle, 50 to 75 » across. Sporules hyaline, elliptic- oblong, obscurely 2-guttulate, 6-10 x 2-3 p, mixed in the oozing mass that escapes from the wounded pycnidium with spores of another form, curved or hamate, 15~-20 x I » and what appear to be shorter, straight basidia, 5-12 x 4-3 p. On dead stems of Impatiens biflora Walt., Oneida, Madi- son county, May 15, 1918. H.D. House. Type in the New York State Museum herbarium. Pleospora herbarum ( Pers.) Rabh. _ On dead stems of Valeriana uliginosa (T. &G.) Rydb., Jordanville, Herkimer county, July 12, 1918. H.D. House. Ramularia eamesii Dearness & House, sp. nov. Maculae red brown, similar on both sides of the leaf, angular, bounded by the veinlets, 2 to 4 mm in width. Fertile hyphae fasci- culate, hyaline, hypophyllous, 5-18 ». Conidia hyaline, continuous or uniseptate, 15-20 x 214-3 p. On living leaves of Valeriana uliginosa (T. &G.) Rydb.. Jordanville, Herkimer county, July 12, 1918. H.D. House, Mr and Mrs E. A. Eames. Type in the New York State Museum herbarium. In nearly all cases those host plants which were badly affected grew in or on the large nests in a sphagnum swamp built up by a species of black ant, and which seems to have affected the vigor of the plants growing on these ant nests. The same host, Valeriana Paeet moe a. exhibits a. tust oPuaccinia.comutata, new to the eastern United States, and other species of plants grow- ing on the ant nests were variously diseased. The hyphae and conidia are much smaller than described for Ramularia valerianae Speg. where the conidia are described as reaching 50x 8 up. Ramularia montana (Speg.) Sacc. On languishing leaves of Epilobium adenocaulon Haussk., Blue Mountain Lake, August 1887. Dr C. H. Peck. The collection although scanty is in good condition and contains in addi- tion a rust, Pucciniastrum pustulatum (Pers.) Dietel. 40 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Saccardinula alni Dearness & House, sp. nov. Perithecia scattered, superficial, membranaceous, black, shining, microthyreaceous, smoothish to salebrose, flattened-conic, inconspicu- ously perforate, 90 to 270 micr. in diameter. Asci mostly saccate and wider below but various in size, shape and number of sporidia contained, lacking paraphyses, walls 3-4 micr. thick, 30-90 x 12-30 micr., mostly 50-60 x 20-25 micr. Sporidia hyaline, four to eight in each ascus, wider above, sometimes one or two in the upper half of the ascus and the others crowded in the lower half, muriform, 5-7—-septate, 20-24 x 6-8 micr. On bark of Alnus. Stamford, N. Y. Collected several years ago by Dr C. H. Peck. Type in the New York State Museum herbarium. The species is peculiar in belonging to a genus heretofore repre- sented by a few tropical leaf-inhabiting species. Septoria acetosella Dearness & House, sp. nov. Maculae mostly along the edges of the affected leaves; these as well as the interior ones rather indefinite. In most cases the tissues around the affected areas are distinctly greener than the rest of the leaf. Pycnidia scattered, subinnate, epiphyllous, but owing to the thinness of the leaf-blades they are in most of the spots nearly equally visible beneath, go—-100 micr. in diameter. Sporules straight, continuous, 15-30 x 14-1 p chiefly 18-20 yw long. On leaves of the wood sorrel, Oxalis acetosella L., Fourth Lake, Herkimer county, August 8, 1919. H. D. House. Type in the New York State Museum herbarium. Also collected at the same place August 8, 1917. Septoria flagellaris E. & E. On living leaves of Convolvulus spithamaleus L., sandy fields north of New London, Oneida county, July 20, 1918. H. D. House. Septoria hieracicola Dearness & House, sp. nov. Spots red-brown on both sides of the leaf, circular or irregular, having a narrow, raised, concolorous boundary, 2 to 8 mm broad. Pyenidia gregarious near the center of the spots, somewhat darker than the context, mostly epiphyllous, some of the spots having no pycnidia on the lower surface, pustulate, minute, 35 to 60 micr. REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQI19 4I in diameter. Conidia hyaline, continuous, straight or curved, 16-30 X .5-.75 p. On living leaves of Hieracium paniculatum L. Catskill mountains, August 1880. Dr C. H. Peck. Type in the New York State Museum herbarium. Septoria hydrophylli Ell. & Dearness On living and languishing leaves of Virginia waterleaf, H ydro- phyllum virginianum L. Oneida, Madison county, May 15, 1918...H. D. House. Septoria leptostachyae Ell. & Kellerm. On living leaves of the lopseed, Phyrma leptostachya L. Oneida, Madison county, July 18, 1918. H. D. House. Septoria vincae Desm. On living and languishing leaves of Vinca minor L., Chit- tenango Falls, Madison county, May 17, 1918. H. D. House. Solenia poriaeformis (DC.) Fckl. (Peziza pruinata Schw.; Tapesia pruinata Sacc.; Tapesia poriaeformis Fckl.) On decorticated surface of decayed wood on the ground in damp woods, Oneida, Madison county, September 1, 1918. H. D. House. Sphaeropsis foliicola Berl. & Roum. On living leaves of wild thorn, Crataegus sp., Portage. mueust 15, 1904. Dr C. H: Peck. Sphaeropsis hyalina B. & C. (Macrophoma hyalina (B. & C.) Berl. & Vogl.) On ‘dead twigs of red ash, Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh. Glenmont, Albany county, May 9, 1918. H. D. House. The collection is interesting because a few pycnidia contain brown | spores, and such would have to be referred to Sphaeropsis pennsylvanica B.&C. Many of the spores are quite hyaline, and clearly belong to what is described as Sphaeropsis hyalina. In size they average from 20 to 26 micr. in length, but none were quite 32 micr. long. There is either a mixture of two very closely related species here or else the hyaline spored form eventually matures into a smoky brown spored form in which case, as we suspect, Sphaeropsis hyalina B.&C., and Sphae- ropsis pennsylvanica B. & C. are the same. Both were A2 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM originally described in Sphaeropsis and if the mature spore is brownish, it is rightly to be called Sphaeropsis hyalinaB. & C., the prior name. If further investigation shows beyond doubt that a hyaline spored species (Macrophoma) may develop brownish spores at maturity (Sphaeropsis), it may involve the co-identification of several other species of Macrophoma and Sphaeropsis with identical hosts and similar spore measurements. Sphaeropsis staphyleae Brun. On dead twigs of Staphylea trifolta”™ LL.” Glenment, Albany county, May 9, 1918. -H. D. House. The spores are 21-24.x 10-12 p. Without authentic European material with which to compare, it is impossible to positively identify this with S. staphyleae Brun., although there is nothing in the descrip- tion of that species to exclude our material. The same twigs con- tain an abundance of Hendersonia staphyleae FE. & E. Stagonospora collapsa (C. & FE.) Sace. On fallen trunk of red maple, Acer rubrum L. Sylvan Beach, Oneida county, May 16, 1918. H. D. House. Stagonospora meliloti Dearness & House, sp. nov. Pycnidia thickly scattered on the more or less blackened areas of the stems, subcuticular, depressed hemispheric, 150 to 200 micr. in diameter; ostiola 40-50 p, central and circular, perforating the cuticle but scarcely roughening :t to the touch. Conidia 1—3-septate, hyaline, sides even or slightly curved, rounded at the ends, con- stricted at the septa, 15-20 x 5-7% yp, on short and indistinct basidia. On dead stems of Melilotus alba Desv. Albany, July 1, 1918. H. D. House. Type in the New York State Museum her- barium. Stagonospora desmodii E. & E. has certain char- acters in common with this, but the spores are quite different. The same stems contain a scanty amount of some Leptosphaeria CE uw ined el lagu). Venturia cassandrae Peck On languishing and dead fallen leaves of Andromeda poli- folia L. Pecksport, Madison county, July 10, 1918. H. D. House. This form on Andromeda has sporules 16-21 x 4-4% p. The species was first collected by Doctor Peck on Chamaedaphne calyculata (L.) Moench, at Kasoag and at Karner. Also on the same host at Pecksport (House). REPORT OF THE STA'’TE BOTANIST, IQIQ 43 Venturia fimbriata Dearness & House, sp. nov. Perithecia dark brown, superficial, easily freed from the leaf, scat- tered over its upper surface, with short bristlelike hairs on the upper half of the perithecia, more or less fimbriate at the base with short or long, septate, branching hyphae, 90 to 180 micr. in diameter and rather higher than broad. Asci subcylindrical, often wider below the middle, sometimes curved, 30-35 x 7-8 »; paraphyses sparse. Spo- ridia hyaline, biseriate, uniseptate, elliptic, subacute at each end, IO-I1 X3 yp. Epiphyllous on languishing leaves of Antennaria, sp. Oneida, Madison county, May 20, 1918. H. D. House. Type in New York State Museum herbarium. It is not easy to determine whether this should be referred to Venturiaior to Asterina, but as the hairs at the top of the perithecia are distinctly bristlelike, it is here referred to Venturia. Associated on some of the leaves with Septoria mollisia Dearness & House. Venturia kalmiae Peck On languishing and fallen leaves of Kalmia polifolia L. Kasoag, Oswego county, June 21, 1918. H.D. House. This is the same locality and host from which the type was collected by Doctor Peck several years ago. A Correction The name Anthostomella picaceum (C. & F.) Sacc., on page 43, New York State Museum Bulletin 205-206, should read: Anthostoma picaceum (C. & E.) Sacc. St CaO SENSE GENUS TNOCYBRE C. H. KAUFFMAN 1 The Species of Inocybe in Peck’s Collections The genus Inocybe has been partially monographed both in Europe and in the United States. The species of Fries and Quelet, as well as those of older date, have been critically studied in part by Bresadola, Patouillard, Massee and others, and more or less uniform concep- tions have been evolved for the European species. A considerable number of species were described from the United States by Doctor Peck, mostly from New York State; but with the exception of these species of Peck, comparatively few had been named in this country A4 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM by anyone else up to the time of Doctor Peck’s death. Since then, Professor Atkinson (Am. Jour. Bot., 5:210, 1918) published names and descriptions of twenty-five additional new American species, an accumulation of many years. © During an extensive study of American collections toward a more complete monograph of the American species, | had the oppor- tunity, through the kindness of Dr H. D. House, to make a critical examination of all the collections of Inocybe which had accumulated at Albany during Doctor Peck’s régime, including of course, types of his species. About 275 collections were gone over ; each of these, except in a few cases, must be considered a separate collection. Of these, Doctor Peck himself collected by far the greater part and his own handwriting is present on practically all his own finds. The data of Doctor Peck’s own collections are very meager, usually giving no more than the locality, sometimes the county, and the month in which the material was obtained; rarely does he mention the year or the day of the month.’ A number of the types and other species from extralimital regions were communicated to him by collectors of fungi living in other states. Simon Davis sent material from Massachusetts; Dr N. M. Glatfelter, from St Louis, Mo.; F. J. Braendle, from the District of Columbia; J. M. Macoun, from Ottawa, Canada; B. O. Longyear, from Michigan; Baker, from California; and Morgan, from Ohio. Only a few other donors sent Inocybe material from outside the State. In 1910, as a part of the New York State Museum Bulletin 1309. Doctor Peck got together an account of the New York species of Inocybe, which is in the main a compilation of the scattered descrip- tions and commentaries of previous State Botanist’s reports. I shall refer to this hereinafter as Peck’s Monograph. In going over the collections, it soon became evident to me that Doctor Peck had not attempted to base the monograph on all his collections but had care- fully examined selected packets, many of which belonged to the type collections, a part of which in each case was mounted on sheets. At least such a set of packets has been kept together and apart from 1JIn the case of type specimens, and species reported for the first time, the year can be ascertained by reference to the published description or report, since Doctor Peck appears rarely to have reported or described a species later than in the report for the year in which the specimen was collected. In other cases his collections can be checked up with his voluminous notes, occupying over forty large notebooks and the exact year of collection determined. H. D. House REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 45 the general collection, and these I found to agree with the concep- tions of the species as given in the monograph. The rest of the collections, although the packets were, with few exceptions, marked with the name of a species of Inocybe, were found to be in considerable confusion. It should be remembered at this point, that this is inevitably to be expected under the circum- stances, and does not, in my opinion, reflect in the slightest on the perspicacity of Doctor Peck. He had many duties as State Botanist ; in the earlier years of his collecting, accurate microscopical informa- tion on European species was practically lacking; later, the accumu- lations of any season, his own and those from many parts of the country, naturally made it impossible to go back over all former collections and keep them revised to date. It would have been pos- sible in dealing with the genus Inocybe alone, but impossible in the whole field of fungi, to say nothing of the plant kingdom as a whole. It is not surprising, then, to find that, for example, many packets marked Inocybe subochracea Pk., did not contain that species at all, but on examination were found to be scattered over half a dozen other species. A glance in the microscope was sufficient to show that no cystidia were present in some instances, or that the spores were angular in others. This shows, I think, that Doctor Peck did either not at first realize the importance of cystidia as he did later, or that he found it impracticable to examine microscopically the mass of collected material, and wishing to preserve it, depended on his undoubted wonderful memory to decide the species from external characters alone. The dried herbarium specimens of the species of this genus are far more easily and satisfactorily diagnosed than is usually the case in dried Agarics. This is due to a number of sharply defined micro- scopic morphological characters which persist in the dried plants. Since these characters are fundamental with regard to the relation- ships of the species in the genus, their study should give us a better clue to such relationships and mark a step toward a phylogenetic system of the Agarics. It seems worth while, then, to present below a scheme based on the microscopical features of the species. This has been arrived at, not only by the study of the Albany collections, but of those in the New York Botanical Garden, my own collections, the published descriptions of Professor Atkinson, those from the _ collections at several universities, and especially the extensive col- lections of Simon Davis of Brookline, Mass. Only the plants in the 46 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Peck collections will be used in this paper to illustrate the proposed arrangement. The spores of the different species of Inocybe are of two main types. In one type the epispore is smooth and rounded. In the other type it is ornamented by spines, nodules, or a more or less tuberculate roughness, which is usually associated with somewhat angular shape. This angularity may be sharply marked or obscure and is somewhat masked by the roughness due to the tubercles. In a very few cases (foriexample 1. dec ipvemns. wy Bresiands Io mar ptaimmonides Pk.), the spores are merely angular or with only very slight or few elevations on the surface. The nodules (tubercles meaning practi- cally the same) may be crowded, or, as is frequently the case, scat- tered on the surface of the spore. Furthermore, they may be coarse and prominent under the ordinary high-power magnifications (that is, without the use of the oil-immersion lenses), or may be indistinct and then best seen by causing the spores to roll over during observa- tion under the microscope. The cystidia are either present or lacking and the species are thus easily grouped into two parts. They may be very numerous or rather thinly scattered over the hymenium and in a few species so few that a very small portion or section of the gills may fail to show any. They may be present all over the surfaces of the gills or mostly on the edge of the gills or near the edge. The latter state- ment contradicts the statement of Massee (Annals of Botany, 18 :462, 1904) in which he claims that “ true cystidia are only met with on the surface of the gills.” In order to discriminate on the subject, it must be noted that all species of Inocybe develop on the edges of the gills sac-shaped or rounded-clavate, more rarely subacute or capi- tate cells, which I have designated “ sterile cells” (Agaricaceae of Michigan, p. 444), and which are shorter than the true cystidia and thin-walled, and probably do not exude the contents through the dis- solved apex as generally do the cystidia. Massee calls these cells “marginal cells.’ In addition to these sterile cells, many species of Inocybe bear typical cystidia on the edge of the gills, while some species have them only on the surfaces, and in the case of a few, like I. paludinella Pk., the edge of the gills is so thickly beset with the genuine thick-walled cystidia that the “ sterile cells” are almost always obscured. Massee’s statement that the larger “ mar- ginal cells,” which I am calling true cystidia, are always thin-walled, must therefore be set aside, since I have observed typical thick- walled cystidia on the edge of the gills of a large number of species. REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 47 The question of whether these cystidia on the edge differ from the sterile ceils in origin has not been settled, and depends somewhat on how much of the surface of the edge is meant when referring to “edge” of the gills. Massee shows no figure demonstrating that the larger “ marginal cells” are different in origin from the cystidia on the sides of the gills. The cystidia may, like the spores, be classed under two main types: the thick-walled cystidia, and the thin-walled cystidia. (a) ‘The former are the “true cystidia’” of Massee. Their walls are quite thick and highly refractive, frequently thickened only along the upper two-thirds of the cystidia, so that the wall of the pedicels remains unthickened. At the apex they exude crystalloid masses at maturity by the deliquescence of a small area or pore at the apex. 1 agree with Massee that the presence or absence of these caps at the apex of the cystidia is of no morphological value in classifying the species. The different age of the gills or influence of external con- ditions during development would modify the observation on dif- ferent specimens of the same species. The thick-walled cystidia are generally, although not in all cases, quite ventricose above the pedicel, while above this enlargement they taper more or less toward the subacute or subrounded apex. This type is usually numerous, especially toward the edge of the gills. (b) The thin-walled type of cystidia has either thin walls corresponding in thickness to that of the pedicel, or when somewhat thickened as is frequently the case in older plants, the thickening tends to run around the apex and is uniform, whereas in the thick-walled type the wall varies markedly in thickness, usually thickest a short distance from the apex. Fur- thermore, the majority of the thin-walled type are entirely subcylin- drical above the pedicel or if ventricose at all, the portion above is not abruptly narrowed to a lance-like neck as in many thick-walled cystidia, but remains broadly cylindrical to the broadly rounded or subtruncate apex. However, this type may show considerable varia- tion from the commoner shape just described, and this is not unusual in the same plant. The commonest variation is that where there is a - gradual tapering from the broadest part of the cystidium to its apex, which may even be acute; there is also a tendency in this type of cystidia to taper gradually, instead of abruptly, to the slender pedicel. The thin-walled cystidia also tend to be less numerous; in most species of this group they are scattered or scanty and may be almost lacking. In I. subfulva Pk. they are reduced to the condition of “ sterile cells” and are often found with difficulty. ee ee 48 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Doctor Peck named and described 41 species of Inocybe, some of which were originally placed in the old sections of Hebeloma and Inocybe in the system of Fries. Of these, 8 are referable to Euro- pean species as synonyms, 2 are better Hebelomas, and 30 are retained as valid. Paxillus strigosus Pk., later included by Peck in his monograph as an Inocybe, is a plant with anomalous characters and ishere ‘excluded. Lnocy be ssterlingimePk: and Inocybe vatricosoides Pk.,, are referred to Hebe- loma because of the viscid pileus on the one hand, and the absence of cystidia on the other. From the standpoint of morphology, the species with smooth, subellipsoid spores and no cystidia can be considered as the simplest iorm of Inocybe, intimately related to the simpler forms of Cor- tinarious and Hebeloma, the three genera each in its own way becoming specialized from this common base. The next step could be conceived in the appearance of the subreniform spore with obtuse ends which is peculiar to most of the section of Inocybes lacking cystidia. It would appear probable that the next section with ellipsoid spores and cystidia was differentiated from the simplest form with ellipsoid spores. That the thin-walled cystidia came first is evident by their rarity in some species and possibly by cther, at present obscure, characteristics due to their origin in the early stages of the plants. In certain few species, not included here, the spores show only a slight and obscure angularity, but marked enough to be detected repeatedly. A few species, of which I. maritimoides Pk. is an example, have angular spores and cystidia but the spores are not, or very faintly, nodulose. Here it would appear, then, is the bridge to the rough-spored species with cystidia, and it is a sig- nificant fact that scarcely a half dozen, if that many, species are authentically known in the whole genus which have rough spores and at the same time lack the cystidia. Even in the few species included here, for example, I. leptophylla Atk. and I. sub- fulva Pk., these are segregated with difficulty from I. lanu- ginosa Fr.-Bres. and I. calospora Quel. respectively. I. leptophylla was connected to Il. lanuginosa by Atkinson himself by proposing a variet, which he called I. leptophylla var. cystomarginata, because true cystidia occur on the edge of the gills only in this form. In the case of I. subfulva, cyst- like cystidia, intermediate between sterile cells and thin-walled cystidia can be observed in the hymenium. Here we have, however, REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, I91Q 49 highly differentiated spores in both cases, and on this account these two species are not suited as a bridge from the smooth-spored to the rough-spored species, a step more easily conceived by the sug- gestion above that the simply angular spores represent this inter- mediate stage of differentiation. I assume, also, that the simplest type of pileus is represented by the Velutinae section, in the sense of Fries, initiated in a simple Cortinarius type, and pass- ing through the Rimosae and Lacerae to the Squarrosae as the highest type of development in any branch of the genus. As a parallel possibility, we can start with the Viscidae, represent- ing a simple type of Hebeloma, and go up through the same series. On this hypothesis, I have arranged below the species in the Peck collections as a suggestion of possible phylogeny in the genus.’ Synopsis I Cystidia lacking Spores smooth Connecting (a) Spores subellipsoid with Cortinarius Sect. Velutinae 1 Inocybe subtomentosa Peck. Five New York collections. Sect: Lacef ae 2 Inocybe subdecurrens E. & E. (Syn. J. tomentosa E. & E.). Two New York collections; also from Canada. Sect. Squarrosae 3 Inocybe marmoripes Atk. One New York collection. (b) Spores subreniform Sect. Rimosae 4 Inocybe lanatodisca Kauff. One New York collection. 5 Inocybe fastigiella Atk. (J. rimosa of Am. authors). Thirteen New York collections; also from Missouri. 6 Inocybe rimosoides Pk. Two New York collections; also from Massachusetts. 7 Inocybe fastigiata Schaeff—Bres. Four New York collections. Sect. Lacerae 8 Inocybe squamosodisca Peck. Two New York collections. Sect. Squarrosae 9g Inocybe lorillardiana Murr. (American form of J. dulcamera A. &S.). Two New York collections; also from New Jersey and Missouri. 10 Inocybe caesariata Fr. (Syn. J. fibrillosa Pk.). Three New York collections; also from Minnesota and Missouri. *The two species from California, 1. bakeri Pk. and I. bullosa Fr., are omitted for lack of data. 50 NZ=W YORK STATE MUSEUM 11 Inocybe unicolor Pk. Four New York collections; also from Ohio. 12 Inocybe mutata (Pk.) Massee. Three New York collections ; also from Massachusetts. 13 Inocybe calamistrata Fr. Three New York collections; also from Ohio and Maine. II Cystidia present Connecting A Spores smooth with (a) Cystidia of thin-walled type Hebeloma Sect. Viscidae 14 Inocybe fuscodisca (Pk.) Massee. Seven New York collec- tions; also from Missouri. Sect. Velutinae 15 Inocybe agglutinata Pk. Two New York collections. 16 Inocybe leptocystis Atk. Two New York collections; also from Massachusetts. 17 Inocybe griseoscabrosa (Pk.) Earle. Three New York collections. 18 Inocybe infelix Pk. (Syn. J. euthelella Pk.). (American form of I. lacera Fr.). Thirty-five New York collections; also from Massachusetts and Michigan. Sect. Rimosae 19 Inocybe eutheles B. & Br.-Bres. One New York collection. (b) Cystidia of the thick-walled type Sect. Velutinae 20 Inocybe geophylla Fr. Thirty New York collections; also from Massachusetts. 21 Inocybe lilacina Fr.-Boud. (=I. geophylla var. lilacina Pk.). Four New York collections. 22 Inocybe violaceifolia Pk. One New York collection. 23 Inocybe subochracea (Pk.) Massee, and var. burtii Pk. Nine New York collections; also from Massachusetts. 24 Inocybe serotina Pk. One New York collection. 25 Inocybe minima Pk. Two New York collections. 26 Inecybe comatella (Pk.) Massee. One New York collection. Sect. Rimosae 27 Inocybe eutheloides Pk. Fight New York collections. 28 Inocybe pallidipes E. & E. Four New York collections. 29 Inocybe destricta Fr. var. minor Kauff. Twelve New York collections ; also from Pennsylvania. 30 Inocybe excoriata Pk. Two New York collections. Sect. Laceéraie ae 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 She, 40 AI 46 A7 48 49 REPORT; OF }THE ;STATE,BOTANIST, IQI9 51 Inocybe flocculosa (Berk.) Sacc. One New York collection; also from Massachusetts. Inocybe pyriodora Fr.-Bres. Two New York collections. Sect. Squarrosae Inocybe hystrix Fr. One New York collection. B Spores angular (not nodulose) (a) Cystidia of the thin-walled type Bech ace Tac Inocybe maritimoides Pk. One New York collection. C Spores rough, nodulose or spiny (a) Cystidia of the thin-walled type Sect. Rimosae Inocybe umbrvina Bres. (Syn. /. castaneoides Pk.). Four New York collections; also from Massachusetts. Inocybe umboninota (Pk.) Massee. Two New York collec- tions; also from Massachusetts. Inocybe hiulca Fr.-Bres. One New York collection. Inocybe radiata Pk. One New York collection; also from Massachusetts. | Sect!) Pace vae Inocybe decipientoides Pk. Six New York collections; also from Massachusetts and District of Columbia. Sect. Squarrosae Inocybe lanuginosa Fr.-Bres. (Syn. /. nodulosa Pk.). Three New York collections. (b) Cystidia of the thick-walled type Sect. Viscidae Inocybe trechispora (Berk.) Karst. Three New York col- lections. Sect. Velutinae Inocybe subexilis Pk. Two New York collections. Inocybe paludinella Pk. One New York collection. Inocybe fallax Pk. Two New York collections. Inocybe infida (Pk.) Massee. Two New York collections ; also from Vermont and District of Columbia. Inocybe repanda Bres. (Syn. /. desquamans Pk.). One New York collection. Sect. Rimro sae Inocybe castanea Pk. One New York collection. Inocybe albodisca Pk. Two New York collections; also from Massachusetts and Missouri. Inocybe cicatricata EF. & E. Two New York collections. 4 52 {EW YORK STATE MUSEUM 50 Inocybe intricata Pk. One collection from Massachusetts. 51 Inocybe proximella Karst. From Massachusetts and Missouri. 52 Inocybe asterospora Quel. (Syn. J. diminuta Peck). Seven New York collections; also from Massachusetts and Missouri. Sect. Lacerae 53 Inocybe nigrodisca Pk.. One New York collection. 34 Inocybe ochraceo-scabrosa Atk. One New York collection from Ithaca. Sect. Squarrosae 55 Inocybe stellatospora (Pk.) Massee. Two New York collec- tions. 50 Inocybe calospora Quel. (Syn. J. rigidipes Peck). Three New York collections; also from Missouri, Massachusetts and Michigan. III Cystidia lacking A Spores nodulose or spiny Sect. Sqguarrosae 57 Inocybe leptophylla Atk. (segregate of I. lanuginosa Fr.- Bres.). Two New York collections; also from Massachusetts. 58 Inocybe subfulva Pk. (Syn. J. echinocarpa E. & E.). Three New York collections. Comments 1 Inocybe subtomentosa Peck. This belongs to a very confus- ing series of species, especially as to their macroscopic characters, including Jy ‘subdecurrens EE! & Soi, (caesar tana I'duleam era AMG Sov’ aco bec! Peck rarer ony ee lardiana Murrill. They all lack cystidia. The tomentose or fibril- lose-tomentose covering of the pileus of these species is of a texture easily affected by weather conditions, so that mature plants or her- barium specimens of the same species can be referred to the Sections Velutinae, Lacerae or’ Siqitartrosae accord te ane weather conditions under which the plants developed. However, all of the series mentioned are clearly separable from I. subtomen- tosa and I. subdecurrens by the subreniform spores. The typeof I. subtomentosa approaches more nearly in its external appearance I. caesariata. The spores, however, are of the vari- able kind, ranging in the type specimens from 7—9 micr. in length with a few up to Io and 11 micr., by 5— 6 micr. wide, a few 7 micr. Here- after such a condition will be referred to thus: 7-9 (10.11) x 5-6 (7). Other collections show a larger per cent, up to 5 or 10 per cent of REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, I9QIQ 53 the larger spores, in which case mycological practice undoubtedly would represent them thus: 7-11 x 5-7 micr.; and such a kind of variability must be reckoned with as a morphological character, giv- ing us, in addition to the elliptical nonreniform spore, also a “ vari- able’ spore as compared to many other species, especially in this connection |. caesariata. Both I. subtomentosa andl. subdecurrens lack a well-developed fibrillose sheath on the stem (subperonate), as do the other species mentioned, and hence the tomentose covering on the caps is also less highly developed, so that they rarely approach the Lacerae or Squarrosae, at least in material at present avail- able. I. subdecurrens must remain a somewhat doubtful species; the cap of |. subtomentosa is described as “ brownish- tawny ” and dries deep ochraceous, while 1. subdecurrens is said to have a “ yellow-drab ” pileus, and dries alutaceous. Whether the gills of 1. subdecurrens are consistently decurrent and whether this character holds, needs to be established more definitely. he cap is described more pilose than in I. subtomentosa and for the present the species must be recognized. 5 Inocybe fastigiella Atkinson. This is a common species in the United States and is doubtless the plant referred to 1. rimosa Fr. in many American lists. Even a cursory examination of Euro- pean notices should convince one that the most widely accepted con- ception of the Friesian species can not be that of ours. Patouillard, Bresadola and Massee consider the Friesian plant to possess cystidia, and European specimens bear this out. Ricken in “ Blatterpilze” evidently has a pliant identical or close to ours, and in my reference to this species in “Agaricaceae of Michigan” it was referred to Ricken’s I. rimosa. This is a strong indication that 1. fas- tigiella occurs also in Europe. I have no evidence that it has been named before. The specimens described by Doctor Peck as possessing cystidia can not be the species as it is known in Europe, but are probably referable to I. destricta var. minor and elsewhere. 6 Inocybe rimosoides Peck. The pale yellow pileus distinguishes this from I. fastigiella ; and the lack of a subemarginate bulb, from I. cookei Bres. 8 Inocybe squamosodisca Peck. This has many similarities to I. caesariata, but the pileus has apparently at first a definite continuous glabrous cuticle, which under certain weather conditions easily cracks to form scales, that is, becomes diffracted-scaly ; while ’ 54 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 1. caesariata has a tomentose-fibrillose covering when young and this may be torn into ascending or recurved scales. 11 Inocybe unicolor Peck. The non-variable subreniform, large spores (Q-12x 5-0), and the paler ochraceous, whitish or grayish ochraceous color of the pileus distinguishes this from its relatives. The color fades and the dried specimens are dull or sordid whitish. 12 Inocybe mutata (Peck) Massee. A good species, separable from |. hystrix by the lack of cystidia. It has the stature of small specimens of I. calamistrata, but the base of the stem is not blue or green. The spores measure 8-10 (12) x 5-5.5 (6) micr. 14 and 15 Inocybe fuscodisca (Peck) Massee. ‘This is sepa- rated with difficulty from 1. agglutinata Peck in dried speci- mens. Some of Peck’s collections marked I. agglutinata doubtless belong here. The cystidia are of the thin-walled type in both, but somewhat aberrant in that the wall is often unusually thick. The thickening, however, passes equally around the rounded apex and the shape and their variability also indicate their thin-walled relationship. The spores average slightly larger in 1. aggluti- nata, and Peck has unduly emphasized this in the monograph. In some specimens of |. fuscodisca the spores are scarcely more than g micr. long, but in general, the spores may be said to measure 8-10 (i1) x 5-6 micr., whereas those of 1. agglutinata vary from 8-12, usually 8-10 (12) x 5-O micr. It appears, then, that we must rely on the characters of the fresh plants. I have never, know- ingly, collected either species. Peck says the pileus of I. fusco- disca has a separable, viscid pellicle, while in I. agglutinata it is covered with fibrils which appear agglutinated, but there is no viscidity. He gives the size of the plants approximately the same, but I suspect I. agglutinata, if distinct, averages larger. 16 Inocybe leptocystis Atkinson. I have long known this species of Atkinson’s. The cystidia tend to the shape of a cylindrical funnel with slender stem, such as are used in chemical apparatus; they are more abundant than is usual in species with the thin-walled type of cystidia. The pileus is bay-brown, silky, becoming slightly appressed- scaly at times. The stem is pallid and solid; the gills are crowded and narrow. The spores measure 7-9 x 4-5 micr., smooth and sub- elliptical. Three collections were found in the Peck herbarium ; they were marked) Ii siubochracea,iih) 9 mmos a jand sy ieee tella respectively. REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, I9QI9Q 55 17 Inocybe griseoscabrosa (Peck) Earle. In the original description of this species in the 26th report, page 57, 1874, Peck gives the spore measurements 8.75x5 micr. In this he was fol- lowed by Massee (Ann. Bot., 18: 484, 1904.) who says he examined the type. Later, in his monograph, Peck corrected this manifest error and gives the measurements larger. I have found them to be 10-12 (13) x 5-7 micr. The cystidia are thin-walled, scattered to few on the sides of the gills, more abundant on edge, and as a rule, broadly fusiform in shape. 18 Inocybe infelix Peck. This is without doubt the American form of I. lacera Fr. of Europe. The species is very common in this country, but our plants do not seem to have the reddish flesh of the stem which is said to be a characteristic of the European plant. J. infelix is very variable. The peculiar lanuginose covering of the pileus is readily affected by weather conditions, and hence a more or less scaly pileus is often met with. The spores are characteristic but quite variable in length. As far as I know, no other species of Inocybe has just such spores, and the species could be segregated on spore-lengths, if one did not take into account the plasticity in their nature. In shape, they are elongated-cylindrical er slightly narrowed one way, and frequently are subtruncate at one end. Peck first gave the length as 10-12% micr. (32d report, p. 29, 1879) ; later in the monograph he increased this to 10-15 micr. In an examination of over seventy-five collections from all parts of the country, I found considerable variation. Evidence points to the age of the plants at time of collection, restrictive effect of sudden dry weather, and perhaps other influences, as the causes of a shorter spore-size in some collections. Ten to 13 micr. is the most common length; 10-15 micr. is frequently met with, and in frequent observa- tions, even longer spores are scattered in the mount, ranging up to 20 micr. in length. The size of the spores of I. infelix can then be indicated thus: to-13 (15, 18, 20) x 4-5% (6). A collection of I. lacera Fr. from Sweden, yielded spores of the same shape, measuring 12-15 (20) x 5-6 micr. and Bresadola (Fungi of Poland, Ann. Myc., 1: 70) gives the spores of 1. lacera Fr. as 11-16 x 4-5 micr. The cystidia of both European and American plants are of the thin-walled type. Bresadola (1. c.) would refer I. lacera Fr. tol. cristata Scop. 22 Inocybe violaceifolia Peck. One of the rare species. Its limitations are not yet known, but it is without doubt distinct from I. cincinnata Fr. and I. obscura Fr. of Europe. Only a 56 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM few plants of these violet-gilled species are usually found, and they all appear to be very rare. 23 Inocybe subochracea (Peck) Massee. I would include in this, var. burtii Peck, since the greater or lesser development of the veil is the only difference between them and depends on condi- tions for growth. This species is sharply characterized among the ochraceous or yellowish species by the abundant thick-walled, slender cvstidia, especially numerous over the whole surfaces and edges of the gills. These cystidia are tinged yellow, and in dried specimens this characteristic is brought out still more, especially by the use of potash solution. In nearly all other species, the cystidia are hyaline. The subcuneate shape of the spores is also a helpful character, although not so sharply marked. 24 Inocybe serotina Peck. This is a large whitish or yellowish- white species of sandy regions. The spores are elliptical: The cystidia are few and hard to find, short, 45-55 x 18—22 micr. Peck does not mention them. The species is closely related to the genus Hebeloma, but no viscidity was reported on the pileus. 25 Inocybe minima Peck. The type was collected by Simon Davis in Massachusetts. Peck found it also in New York State. The pileus is minutely fibrillose or lanuginose, recalling the kind of covering present on the pileus of I. infelix, but the spores and cystidia are quite different. The spores measure slightly longer than given by Peck. 26 Inocybe comatella (Peck) Massee. Quite small and occur- ring on rotten wood. The spores measure 6-7 (8) x 3-4 micr., as given by Massee; this is smaller than noted by Peck. The cystidia are abundant and thick-walled. The hairs of the pileus appear as hyaline bundles of hyphae under the microscope. 27, 28, 29 Inocybe eutheloides Peck; I. pallidipes E. & E.: and I. destricta var. minor Kauff., are closely related and kept apart with difficulty in the dried condition. The pileus of all three are more or less rimose, the extent of rimosity depending on weather conditions. This series of closely similar species includes I. eutheles Berk., which apparently has thin-walled cystidia. I. destricta var. minor has both the thin-walled and thick- walled type, the former predominating on and near the edge of the gills, but mixed with the other type. I. eutheloides and IT. pallidipes have thick-walled cystidia of the usual appear- ance; when growing, I. eutheloides has a fawn colored cap, while that of I. pallidipes varies from light brown to darker REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 57 brown or umber; the stems of both are persistently white or whitish. The spores are the same in the two species. On the other hand the stem of I. destricta var. minor is rufous-tinged at maturity, the pileus becomes normally more lacerated-scaly and usually there is a shade of reddish in the brown color. ‘The plants of the three species average the same size. 30 Inocybe excoriata Peck. A fairly large plant, with pileus 3-5 cm broad. Other species which have the general appearance of it, differ in not possessing any cystidia. The pileus is not always excoriate and not too much stress must be placed on this character. The cystidia are thick-walled, fairly abundant and stout, and it is possible that it is I. eutheles B. & Br. of Massee’s monograph, although not like specimens referred to I. eutheles by Bresa- dola. 34 Inocybe maritimoides Peck. There seems to be no other col- lection in existence except the type. It is clearly distinguished by its angular, non-nodulose spores and thin-walled, scattered cystidia. When the spores are rolled over under the microscope the surface is obscurely uneven; they are subrectangular to subquadrate in outline when at rest. 36 Inocybe umboninota (Peck) Massee. In the monograph, Peck amends the original description in the 38th report, page 87, by citing it as only “in part” the new conception. I shall therefore use the specimens referred to in the monograph as the type. By doing so, a number of difficulties connected with the identity of this species disappear. An examination of several collections which must be referred here, showed that the plants of this species vary larger than the size given by Peck. The pileus is 1.5-5 cm broad, often only a few of the large size in a collection. Nevertheless it must be considered a medium to large size Inocybe. The spores have the same characteristics as those of I. umbrina Bres. but the latter is a small plant, with very rimose caps, while the caps of I. umboninota are scarcely rimose as a rule although tending eccasionally to become more so. The spores measure 6-8 x 4-6 micr., are angular-tuberculate, the tubercles not very distinct. In stature it simulates ].asterospora Quel. 38 Inocybe radiata Peck. This is apparently our nearest Ameri- can relative of I. carpta Bres., but the pileus and stem of I. radiata do not possess the lanuginose covering of Bresadola’s plants, and the spores of I. radiata are “generally narrowed toward one end” (Peck), while those of specimens from Bresadole which I examined are more rectangular in outline. The size of the 58 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM spores is about the same in the two species, 7-11 (12) x 5-6 (7) micr., and both have the scattered, thin-walled type of cystidia. The tubercles of the angular spores are not very distinct and often far apart, and in undeveloped plants the spores may appear as 1f non- nodulose. 39 Inocybe decipientoides Peck. Asin 1. radiata the spores of this species are angular-nodulose, generally narrower toward one end, and variable in shape and especially in size; they measure Q—II (13) xX 5-7 micr. with very manifest, obtuse, but scattered nodules. The size, as given by Peck, is unsatisfactory. I. decipiens Bres. has angular spores without nodules. Peck tried to refer some specimens received by him to I. decipiens, but all these collections have distinct nodules on the spores and are to be con- sidered I. decipientoides. This species was discovered by Simon Davis in Massachusetts, and through his kindness I have examined a number of collections. In one lot the spores exceeded the size I have given, measuring up to 15 micr. long. This great variability must be considered an innate character of this species. The pileus is somewhat squamulose, especially on the umbo. 42 Inocybe subexilis Peck. A small species of good standing. 43 Inocybe paludinella Peck. This was referred by Massee to I. trechispora Berk. The type material, as Peck has already pointed out in the monograph, shows that there is no basis for this synonymy except the similarity of the spores. The stature of I. paludinella is entirely different, the stems are long and slender, the pileus is not viscid and the cystidia are lanceolate, rather long, while in I. trechispora they are short and obese. 44 Inocybe fallax Peck. The size of the plants varies consider- ably. Usually only a few specimens occur ina place, and often they run smaller than is typical. Peck gives the size of the pileus 2.5-5 cm but I have seen collections where the piles measured up to 7 em. The spores of the smaller, mostly poorly developed plants do not surpass 7-9 x 5-7 micr., but in luxuriant and well-developed plants they are 7-10 (11) x 5-8 (9) micr., subsphaeroid to subrectangular in outline, with distinct irregular nodules; the figures of the spores. given by Peck (Plate O, N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 75) are unsatisfactory and do not show the variation in shape. The plants dry whitish, while I. infida Peck becomes brown. The cystidia are very obese. Its nearest European relative seems to be I. umbratica Quel. (J. commixta Bres.), which apparently differs only in its solid stem and perhaps the cystidia. The nature of the stem should always be noted in the fresh plants. a ers + ee REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, I9QIQ 59 45 Inocybe infida (Peck) Massee. This has been a much mis- understood species. When dried the pileus becomes pale brown, the stem dark fuscous; this characteristic, along with the angular-nodu- lase spores, separates it from I. geophylla. I suspect, from this, that too much emphasis has been placed on its color when fresh, when it is said to imitate]. geophy1la almost perfectly. Massee referred I. umbratica to it as a synonym, but the stem of the European species has a subturbinate, subemarginate bulblet, which is not present in our plant, and the stem of J. umbratica is solid. The gills of IT. commixta Bres., which is synonymous with I. umbratica, are described as “ very crowded,’ while in I. infida, although narrow, they are merely close. Specimens from Bresadola, marked 1..commixta, had retained the whitish color on drying. 47 Inocybe castanea Peck. The size of the plants and the spores are similar to I. umbrina Bres., but the pileus is not markedly rimose as in that species, has reddish tints and the cystidia are definitely thick-walled. I have not collected it, and other differ- -ences doubtless occur. 48 Inocybe albodisca Peck. This is a clear-cut species. 50 Inocybe intricata Peck. This deserves its name, because of the confusion in the type collection, although Peck named it for a different reason. It was first collected in Massachusetts. The type collection contains two species: one with thin-walled cystidia which is probably I. hiulca Bres., the other the genuine type with thick- walled cystidia and large, broadly elliptical spores, not angular, densely and coarsely nodulose, 10-12.5 x 7-8 (g) micr. It is a well- Mietmed species. It differs from, J..asterospora,. according to Peck, “by its smaller size, pale shining pileus, stuffed or hollow stem and larger spores.” That Peck was dealing with selected plants, of the type only, is shown by the agreement of the spores and cystidia with his description. 53 Inocybe nigrodisca Peck. The small spores, subsphaeroid to subrectangular in outline, irregularly angular-nodulose, the nodules indistinct, are similar to those of |. umbrina,I. umboninota and I. castanea. The surface of the pileus is very minutely lanuginose as in I. minima and of the same small size, but that species has smooth spores. The cystidia are slender, lanceolate and thick-walled. 55 Inocybe stellatospora (Peck) Massee. This rather larg. plant with a pileus 2-5 cm broad, is unique among the Squarrosae, 60 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM by its small, nodulose-angular spores, variable in shape, and by its change of color on drying when it becomes dark, smoky umber or fuliginous. Dried specimens are easily recognized by this blackening, although Peck makes no remark about it. It seems to be a rare and solitary-growing species. 58 Inocybe subfulva Peck. This speciesandI. echinocarpa E. & E. are considered synonyms by Massee of I. gaillar di Gill. I can not bring myself to believe that the spines on the spores of our species are as bristle-like, or as long, as illustrated for I. gail- lardi by Massee (Am. Bot., XVIII, 504, pl. 32, fig. 11) and by Patouillard (Tab. Analyt., pl. 11, fig. 8). An examination of Ellis’s plants in two sets of N. Am. F. No. 1904, shows that I. echino- carpa is identical microscopically with I. subfulva_ Peck, and, although apparently differing in stature, must be considered a synonym of Peck’s species. The hymenium lacks typical cystidia of either kind, but there are present, widely scattered, cystlike sterile cells which surpass the basidia slightly in length. The absence of cystidia separates it from I. calospora and I. astero- spora. The spines on the spores are broader at the base, while in I. calospora they are cylindrical rod-shape. The stature is that of .Léicad oS pio ria: NECESSARY "CHANGES OF CER PAIN PLAN TN feneaee The following notes on the nomenclature of certain plants have developed as the result of further studies on the North American Convolvulaceae, and of the genera and species of New York State plants. In many cases the study of certain groups has taken me afield into related genera and species which do not grow in this State, and for that reason, chiefly, these notes need not form a part of the proposed list of New York State plants. Stachys grayana, sp. nov. phe a hyssopitolita var. 'anrbrgua A. Gray, Syn. ly 2-357 1878. S. ambigua (Gray) Britton, Torr. Club Mem., 5: 285. 1894. Not S. ambigua J. E. Smith in Sowerby & Smith, Engl. Bot., pl. 2080. Found eastward to Massachusetts, but not yet reported from New York State. | Stachys riddellii, sp. nov. St AcE cordata Riddell, Suppl. Cat. Ohio Pl. 15. 1836. Not Gilib. 1781. . REPORT | OF THE ‘STATE 'BOTANIST, I9QI9Q At Oenothera rydbergii, nom. nov. Onagra strigosa Rybd, Oenothera strigosa Mackenzie & Bush, Oenothera biennis var. canescens Torr. & Gray. Not OQenothera strigosa Willd, nor Oenothera camescens Forr. & Frem. A western species ranging from Minnesota to Kansas, Utah, Washington and British Columbia. Heliotropium nuttallii, nom. nov. Lithospermum tenellum Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., 5: 188. 1837. Not L. tenellum Raf. Am. Mo. Mag., 4: 195. 1810. Heliotropium tenellum (Nutt.) Torrey. A southern species ranging from Kentucky and Kansas to Ala- bama and Texas. Lithospermum lutescens N. Coleman, Cat. Pl. Grand Rapids, Mich. 29. 1874. | This name will have to replace Lithospermum lati- folium Michx. 1803, which is invalidated by the earlier L. latifolium Forsk, 1775. The species ranges from western New York and Ontario to Minnesota, Virginia and Tennessee. BIVONEA Raf. Am. Mo. Mag., 2:268. 1818. The type is designated as Bivonea stimulosa (Michx.) Raf., l.c. (Jatropha stimulosa Michx.), and as such the generic name clearly antedates Cnidoscolus Pohl (1827). Bivonea texana (Muell. Arg.) comb. nov. Jatropha texana Meel Are, "Cnirdos col us) tex ana’ Small. CROPTILON Raf. Fl! Tellur., 2:47. | 1837. The type is designated as Inula divaricata Nutt. and trans- ferred to the genus as Croptilon divaricatum Raf,, l.c. This is also the type of Isopappus Torr. & Gray (1841) and to it may be added the only other species, viz: Croptilon hookerianum (T. & G.) comb. nov. Isopappus hookerianus T.&G, Aplopappus hookerianus A. Gray. HYPOLYTRUM Rich. in Pers. Syn., 1:70. 1805. Lipocarpha R. Br. App. Tuckey Exp. Congo 459. 1818. Whe type ot Lipocarpha R:,Br.,.is Uo argentea R: Br.'1.-c. 477. This is the Hypolytrum senegalense Rich. the type of Hypolytrum, but argentea is an older name. Hypolytrum also 62 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM contains in the original publication two other species, namely, H. gracile Rich. whichis Lipocarpha sphacelata Kunth, and H. latifolium Rich. which I am unable to identify. The older generic name should be restored and our single eastern Ameri- can species becomes : Hypolytrum macuiatum (Michx.) comb. nov. Kyllingia maculatia Miche Dip oGa riphiaineaic u lata. Torrey. These facts were pointed out long ago by Vorrey (Ann. Lye. N. Y., 3:438. 1836), who ascertained thein too late to affect his treatment of Lipocarpha in his monograph of the Cyperaceae, and merely a note regarding the matter was made as an appendix. Scirpus microcarpus var. confertus (Fernald) comb. nov. Scirpus tubrotinctus var.nscomfie riais,Permald, Rhodemrs 1 1900. Scirpus cyperinus var. congesta, var. nov. Scirpus.,, ériophorum var.,condensa tus) Mernald, (Proc) Am Acad. 34:501. 1899. S. cyperinus var. ‘con'densatus Fernald, Rhodora, 2° 10.) t90e Not Eriophorum cyperinum ‘var.’ condensatum “Peek, 46th Rep’t: N.. Y.. State..Mus. ‘50. . 1893 (whichis rthe’same as S. abrecinetus van brachypodus. Pemald): Scirpus atrocinctus var. concensatus (Peck) comb. nov. Eriophorum cyperinum var. condensatum Peck, 46th Rept N. Y. State Mus. 50. 1803. Scirpus -aitrocinetus,,vas. (bic veh yy p ods Kernald,. Praca. Acad. 34:503. 1800. AMBLIRION Raf. Am. Mo. Mag., 2:256. 1818. The Lilium pudicum of Pursh, designated as the type of this genus (Amblirion pudicum Raf., 1. c.) has also been made the type of a new genus Ochrocodon by Rydberg (Rocky Mountain Flora, 164. 1917). If maintained as a separate genus, the older name given to it by Rafinesque should be used. Bonamia multicaulis (Brandegee) comb. noy. Breweria multicaulis Brandegee, Univ. Calif. Bot. Stud., 4: 185. IQII. Type locality: Sierra del Rey, Coahuila, Mexico. Purpus No. 4457- The genus Bonamia Pet. Thouars, is closely related to Stvlisma Raf.and Breweria R. Br. (1810) is a synonym of REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 63 Bonamia. The genus as now understood includes but three American species, one in Florida, one in western Texas and one in Coahuila, Mexico. . Thyella hirtiflora (Mart. & Gall.) comb. nov. Ipomoea hirtiflora Mart. & Gall. Bull. Acad. Brux. XII., 2: 264. 1845. Jacquemontia lactescens Seem. Bot Voy. Herald 171. 1852. Convolvlus piosiflorus Moc & Sesse, Fl. Mex. in La Naturaleza ine ‘append. -37.|,, 1903. Muverla, lactescens. House, Torr., Club Bul. ,33:314. 1906. The type locality is “‘ Cerro de Lancon, near Panama” and the species ranges from Oaxaca to Peru. Ipomoea hirtiflora Be vtreatea in N. Y. Acad. Sci., 18: 103. ,1908, by the writer, is a misidentification, and the specimens there referred to Ipomoea hirtiflora have since been renamed Ipomoea villifera. Jacquemontia obcordata (Millsp.) comb. nov. Convolvulus obcordatus Millsp. Field Col. Mus. Bot., 2:88. 1900. The type was collected near Progresso, Yucatan, by Doctor Mills- paugh (No. 1707, 1899). ‘This species is very closely related to J. ovalifolia (Vahl) Hallier f., which is well represented by material collected by Britton & Harris at Great Pedro Bay, Jamaica and in Antigua. The type of Convolvulus ovalifolius Vahl is probably not in existence, but the West Indian material referred to matches the description of that species very closely. The Yucatan specimens present certain well marked but minor points of difference, and for the present they may well be regarded as dis- tinct but closely related species. JACKSONIA Raf. Med. Repos. IT., 5: 352. 1808. With no desire to revive the controversy, if such it might be called, between Doctor Greene ( Pittonia, 2: 174. 1891 ; 274. 1892; Erythea, 2: 68. 1894) and Doctor Britton (Erythea, 2: 67, 68. 1894; Bul. Torr. Club, 20: 271. 1893), the writer feels convinced that Jack- sonia is the prior and correct name for the plant later designated by Rafinesque as Polanisia. As the name is first published, it appears as though Rafinesque designates as the type, Cleome dodecandra L. A perusal of the article wherein this is published shows that Rafinesque was presenting a “ prospectus” of two intended works on North Ameri- can botany, and a reading of the entire article seems to indicate that 04 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM he had before him a copy of Michaux’s Flora since he calls atten- tion to a number of so-called mistakes by Michaux or at least cases where Michaux has used a wrong generic name, and which he pro- poses to correct. For example, in this article he proposes Adlumia for Fumaria recta Michx. Kampmannia for Zanth- oxylum tricarpum Michx. and some others. He calls atten- tion to Michaux’s not adopting such names as Bartonia Willd., Marshallia ynexemia, based upon Phyllan thus carat. ianus Walt. The description is brief and admittedly poor but possesses certain points which can apply to no other Euphorbiaceous plants found in Kentucky. The description reads as follows: 3. 5... pumila Raf.-erect, branches angular, leaves;peneians obovate, obtuse, entire, glaucous beneath, flowers germinate, droop- ing, one male, one female, Kentucky; flowers yellowish, capsule trilocular °”’ GEBOSCON Raf. Cat. 14. 1824. Peeudoscord win Herb. “Amaryil. “ii 1637. Nothoscordum Kunth, Enum. 4: 457. 1843. Caloscordum Herb. In Lindl. Bot. Reg. Mics. 66. 1844. Hesperocles Salisb. Gen. Pl. Fragm. 85. 1866. Oligosma Salisb. 1. c. Peéridio ba’ Raf, Fl, Tellur., 4: 87.4, 1840. Geboscon bivalve (L.) comb. nov. Ornithogalum bivalve 1. Spy Pi. 30027 1753) Allium ornithogaloides Walt. Fl. Car. 121. 1758. Allium striatum jacq:\Coll Sappl st. e790. Geboscen striatum Rar, tc Nothoscordum striatum Kunth, Lec. 459. N. bivalve Britton, in Britton & Brown, Illus. Fl. 1:415. 1908. Oliogosma bivalve Salisb.. Gen. Pl. Fragnr 85: ‘1860. This member of the Alliaceae (onion family), known as the yellow false garlic, ranges from Virginia to Ohio, Tennessee, Nebraska, Florida, Texas and Mexico. It appears to have been known by REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 67 Rafinesque, and recognized as a generic type, during his residence at Lexington. Among other species of this genus are: Caloscordum nériniflorum Herb. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. Misc. 66. 1844 (= Geboscon neriniflorum (Herb.) comb. nov.) ; Hesperocles fragrans Salisb. Gen. Pl. Fragm. 85. 1866 (==Geboscon fragrans (Lindl.) comb. nov.), in addition to several other species which occur in tropical and in South America. EUCNIDE Zucc. (Loasaceae) Eucnide parryi, nom. nov. Mentzéelia urens Parry, ex A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., 10: 7221674. \Not Vell. Fl. Flum, 5: t..97. 1825. Paremide urens Parry, Am. Nat., 9: 144, 1875. HYPOGON Raf. FI. Ludov. 148. 1817. (Labiatae ) Micheliella Brig. in Engl. & Prantl. Pflanzenf., 43a: 325. 1897— Small, Pe Sek. U:S.' 1050. 1903. The type species is designed by Rafinesque as Hypogon anisa- menecouns) Rafit.ci(Collinsonia°anisata (Sims?! Bot: Mag. ¢. 1213; M. anisata Briq., l.c.) Hypogon verticillatum (Baldw.) comb. nov. S@mlenasonia.verticillata Baldw. in Ell. Bot. S.C. & Ga. i 20. 1o2l. Meow er ticillata’ Briq:; Lc. Cacalia rotundifolia (Raf.) comb. nov. The name of the Great Indian plantain, Cacaliareniformis Muhl. (in Willd. Sp. Pl. 73: 1753. 1804) is invalidated by an earlier Miealia renitormis Lam) Fl Pr., 2: 75. 1778. For this reason the species was renamed Senecio muhlenbergii by Schultz Bipontinus (Flora, 28: 499. 1845). Rafinesque took up the name of Muhlenberg’s in Mesadenia (M.reniformis Raf.) but also gave the same plant another name, Mesadenia rotundifolia Raf. (New FI., 4: 79. 1836), which becomes the available name where the species is regarded as a member of the segregated genus Mesadenia. 5 68 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM PERIDERIDIA Reichb. Handb. 219. 1837. (Ammiaceae ) Eulophus Nutt. in DC. Coll. Mem. 5: 69. 1829. Not Eulophus R...Br...in. Bot... Reg, sub, 1.573. 1421: Poedosciadium, A. Gray, Proc. Am.. Acad. 77348; 1868. The genus Eulophus of Brown is a large group of orchids native of the tropics of the Old World. It has been generally written Eulophia (R. Br. Bot. Reg. t. 686. 1823), which was merely a change of spelling from the original publication in 1821. The American species of Eulophus Nuttall, should therefore be placed in the genus Perideridia of Reichenbach, based upon Eulophus americanus of Nuttall. Perideridia americana ( Nutt.) Reichenb. I.c. (Eulophus americanus Nutt. ) Perideridia parishii (C. & R.) comb. nov. Pam pinelfeaparirshis Ce RY Bot? Gaz> 1a 157.” Too7. Eulophus parishii C..& R. Conte. Nat Herb. 7-111 soo Perideridia rusbyi (C. & R.) comb. nov. Ewlopfts partshit rursbdyr'C: & R. Bot. Gaz, w4728h Eooo. Perideridia pringlei (C. & R.) comb. nov. Eulophus pringlei C. & R., Rev. N. Am. Umbell. 113. 1888. Perideridia pringlei simplex (C. & R.) comb. nov. Eulophus pringlei simplex C.& R., Rev. N. Am. Umbell. 113. 1888. E. simplex C.-& RK iContr Naty Mesb..07 : 2125. 2001: Perideridia bolanderi (A. Gray) comb. nov. Podosciadium bolanderi A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., 7: 346. 1868. Eulophus bolanderi C. & R., Rev. N. Am. Umbell. 112. 1888. Perideridia californica (Torr.) comb. nov. Chaerophyllum(?) californioud my, Retr. -Pacit] BR Reps a: aa 1856. Pedodciadium, californi cum A, ‘Gray, 1c. e480) Eulophus californica C. &R. Rev. Ni. Am. Umbell. 114. 1888. GREGORIA Duby, Bot. Gall. 1:383. 1828. ( Primulaceae ) Dougtlasia. Lindl. in Quart.. Jour. Sei. 385. Oct. 1827. Not Douglassia Adans. 1763, nor Schreb. 1791. The type of Gregoria (G. vitaliana Duby, lc.) native of the Pyrenees mountains, is congeneric with the American species, here- tofore designated as Douglasia, and indeed was transferred to Doug- lasia Lindl., by Bentham and Hooker. Gregoria nivalis (Lindl.) comb. nov. Douglasia nivalis Lindl. lc. 383. REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST, IQIQ 69 Gregoria montana (A. Gray) comb. nov. moaudglasia montana A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., 7: 371. 1868. Gregoria laevigata (A. Gray) comb. nov. ~All laevigta A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., 7:371. 1868; 16:105. 1881. Gregoria arctica (Hook.) comb. nov. Miauelasia arctica Hook. Fl. Bor..Am., 2:140. 1840. Gregoria dentata (S. Wats.) comb. nov. Dowelasia dentata S. Wats., Proc. Am. Acad., 17: 374. 1882. Gregoria johnstoni (A. Nels.) comb. nov. Douglasia johnstoni A. Nels. THELYPTERIS (Ruppius) Schmidel, Icon. Pl. Ed. 2, 45. DIS; 10 T3170 2. Doctor Nieuwland (Am. Mid. Nat., 1: 226. 1910) has pointed out the fact that the earliest valid name for our shield ferns, hereto- fore known as Dryopteris, or Aspidium, is Thelypteris. In addition to the species mentioned by him, the following New York species should be transferred to this name. Thelypteris thelypteris (L.) comb. nov. Acrostichum the- mepreris L., Aspidium thelypteris Sw. Dryop- Soaisthelypteris A. Gray; Thelypteris palustris Schrott. Thelypteris clintoniana (D. C. Eaton) comb. nov. Aspidium Sristatum var. clintonianum D.C. Eaton; Dryop- teris clintoniana Dowell. Thelypteris dilatata (Hoffm.) comb. nov. Polypodium dila- earum Mofim:; Dryopteris dilatata A. Gray. Thelypteris dilatata var. americana (Fischer) comb. nov. Dry- opteris dilatata var. americana Benedict. Thelypteris intermedia (Muhl.) comb. nov. Polypodium in- fermedium Muhl.; Dryopteris intermedia A. 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