Annual Report of the State Botanist 1892 - MykoWeb

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Report of the State Botanist.
Lycoperdon asterospermum -D. & M,
North Greenbush and West Albany.
Lycoperdon perlatum Pers.
Brewerton, Adirondack and Catskill mountains. August and
September. Following the illustrious Fries, I formerly included
this with L. gemmidtum, but it is so well marked by the ])revail-
ing form of the peridium and especially by the character of the
spines of the cortex that it seems best to consider it a distinct
species.
Lycoperdon Curtisii lierk.
Ground by roadside. Guilderland. October.
Didymium proximum B , Dioscorea mllosa. Riverhead. Jnly.
Var. grisea. Spots gray with a narrow reddish-brown margin;
perithecia epiphyllous, numerous, black ;
Phoma vulgaris Sacc.
spores globose or ovoid.
Dead stems of long-fruited anemone, Anemone cyUjidrica.
Delmar. June. The spores in our plant are slighth" smaller
than in the type.
Macrophoma versabilis n. sp.
Perithecia scattered, irregular, globose or compressed and hys-
teriiform, erumpent or subsuperficial, black ;
spores oblong-ellip-
tical, colorless, .0005 to .0006 in. long, .00025 to .0003 broad
sporophores generally shorter than the spores.
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