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may be distinguished by tlieir pallid stem, more tenacious substance 

 and yellowish spores. The plant is slightly fragrant, 



Clavaria byssiseda, Pers. 



Decaying wood twigs and bark in woods. Adirondack mountains* 

 Aug. 



Easily known by its small size, pallid color, and abundant white 

 creeping fibrillose mycelium. 



Tremella pinicola, n. sp. 

 Pulvinate, gyrose-plicate, somewhat lobed and lacunose, raisin- 

 colored when moist, blackish when dry, filaments. slender, branched; 

 spores oblong, curved, colorless, .0005 in. long, .0002 broad. 



Dead branches of pine. Day. July. It belongs to the section 

 Cerebrina. 



Siphoptychium Casparyi, Eost. 

 Decaying wood. Lake Placid. Adirondack mountains. G. A. 

 Rex. 



Phyllosticta Mitellse, n. sp. 

 Spots suborbicular, brown ; perithecia minute, .0025 to .003 in. 

 broad, amphigenous, black; spores subglobose, colorless, .0002 to 

 .00025 in. long. 



Living leaves of mitre-wort, MiteUa diphylla. Newburgh. Sept. 



Phyllosticta Hamamelidis, n. sp. 

 Spots very large, sometimes occupying nearly half the leaf, irregu- 

 lar, angular, reddish-brown above, paler beneath; perithecia small, 

 .004 in. broad, amphigenous, black ; spores broadly elliptical, color- 

 less, .0005 to .0006 in. long, .00035 to .0004 broad, often containing 

 a single large nucleus. 



Living leaves of witch-hazel, Hamamelis Virginia?ia. Day. July. 



Phoma aquilina, S. <£ P. 

 Dead stems of ferns. West Albany. May. 



Phoma Strobiligena, Desm. 

 Scales of pine cones. Albany. G. W. CUnto?i. Elizabethtown. 

 May. 



Phoma sordida, Sacc. 

 Dead branches of water beech, Carpinus Americana. Saugerties. 

 May. 



Phoma Phillipsiana, S. & R. 

 Dead branches of alders, Alnus viridis. Elizabethtown. May. 

 The spores in our specimens do not fully agree with the description 

 of the species. They are elliptical or oblong and somewhat variable 

 and irregular, but the differences scarcely seem worthy of specific dis- 

 tinction. 



Phoma Majanthemi, n. sp. 

 Perithcia minute, .007 to .010 in. broad, amphigenous, subglobose, 

 prominent, black; spores oblong, subtruncate at each end, colorless. 



