Annual Report of the State Botanist 1892 - MykoWeb
Annual Report of the State Botanist 1892 - MykoWeb
Annual Report of the State Botanist 1892 - MykoWeb
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Beport <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>Botanist</strong>.<br />
PloAvrigiitia morbosa Sacc.<br />
This noxious fungus is subject to considerable variation in its<br />
behavior and in its time <strong>of</strong> fruiting. Specimens were collected<br />
on choke cherry, Primus Virginiana, near Karner, May 16th, in<br />
which conidia and ascospores were both present in abundance.<br />
CoTiidia-bearing excrescences were also found which were evi-<br />
dently due to <strong>the</strong> sowing <strong>of</strong> spores, as <strong>the</strong>y were alone on<br />
branches containing no o<strong>the</strong>rs. These probably were due to last<br />
year's sowing <strong>of</strong> spores, for if <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> present year's sowing <strong>the</strong>y<br />
must have developed with unusual rapidity. Specimens <strong>of</strong> this<br />
fungus were also collected on <strong>the</strong> wild red cherry, Prunus Penn-<br />
sylvanica, on <strong>the</strong> slopes <strong>of</strong> Blue mountain. The excrescences<br />
were mostly single on <strong>the</strong> branches and gave no evidence <strong>of</strong> a dispo-<br />
sition to spread by <strong>the</strong> extension <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mycelium. In many cases<br />
<strong>the</strong> affected branch was already dead or in a dying condition, in<br />
which cases <strong>the</strong>re would, <strong>of</strong> course, be no spread <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> disease<br />
by <strong>the</strong> mycelium.<br />
Cryptospora suffusa Tul.<br />
Yar. nuda. Stroma not sutfused with a yellowish dust. On<br />
dead stems <strong>of</strong> alder and hazel-nut. Karner and West Albany,<br />
The black circumscribing line is also ap]5arently absent in some<br />
cases.<br />
NEW YORK SPECIES OF rLUTEOLUS.<br />
Pleuteolus Fr.<br />
Pileus slightly fleshy, conical or campanulate, <strong>the</strong>n expanded,<br />
viscid, <strong>the</strong> margin at first straight, appressed to <strong>the</strong> stem ; stem<br />
subcartilaginous, distinct from <strong>the</strong> hymenophorum ; lamellae<br />
rounded-free. Hym. Europ., p. 266.<br />
This genus corresponds to <strong>the</strong> genus Pluteus in <strong>the</strong> pink-spored<br />
series. The species are similar in structure to <strong>the</strong> species <strong>of</strong> that<br />
genus, but <strong>the</strong>y difi'er somewhat in <strong>the</strong> character <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> stem and<br />
in <strong>the</strong> color <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> lamelhe and spores. Its species were sep-<br />
arated by Fries from <strong>the</strong> genus Galera because <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir viscid<br />
pileus and free lamelhi?. I have included in it two species<br />
formerly referred to Galera by me. They are Galera expansa