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On the bark of dead branches of Prunus pennsylvanica. 

 Catskill mountains. C. H. Peck (no date). 



Glutinium exasperans Fr. 



On decorticated and weathered wood of Pin us strobus. 

 Long Lake, N. Y. C. H. Peck, July. 



Hysterium proteiforme Duby 



On dead bark of U 1 m u s a m e r i c a n a . New Bahimore, 

 N. Y. C. H. Peck, May. 



Illosporium coccinellum Cooke 

 Forming tiny bright red dots on the dead bark of spruce ( P i c e a 

 rub ens). North Elba, N. Y. C. H. Peck, August. 



Labrella celastri Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Pycnidia black, shining, thickly scattered, separate, sometimes, 

 confluent, circular or subcircular, cleft lengthwise sometimes cleft 

 circularly, lOO to 200 fi in diameter. Conidia hyaline, 4 x I /x, on 

 narrow conidiophores, 8 to 15 /x long. 



On dead stems ofCelastrus scan dens. Karner, Albany 

 county. H. D. House, April 29, 1916. 



L e p t o t h y r i u m celastri B. & C, founded upon a New 

 England collection, agrees with this in the main according to the 

 description, except that the conidia are described as 25 fx long. 



Laestadia caricis Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Perithecia depressed-globose, scattered, black with a whitish 

 stoma, minute, 90 to 100 fi, innate, opening through the upper 

 cuticle of the host leaf. Asci aparaphysate, ovate to cylindric, 

 33 to 60 /x, mostly 45 to 50 X 8 to 10 fi. Sporidia hyaline, subel- 

 liptic or fusoid, inequilateral, usually wider in the upper half, 12 to 

 14 X 3.5 to 4.5 /x, some of them appearing pseudoseptate. 



On dead leaves ofCarex stricta. Carey pond near Camp 

 Fulton on Fourth lake, northern Herkimer county, N. Y. H. D. 

 House, August 9, 1917. 



The dead leaves of Carex stricta at Carey pond bear in 

 addition to the Laestadia, an inextricable mixture of other fungi, 

 including a Leptosphaeria, an Alternaria, a Cladosporium, a Sporo- 

 desmium and a Hysteriaceous species. 



