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Exobasidium Azaleae, Peck. 
Gall subglobose, often lobed or irregular, succulent, fleshy, solid, smooth 
pale green or glaucous becoming pruinose; spores oblong, straight or curved, 
obscurely uniseptate, white, .0006'—.0008' long. 
Terminal on living twigs of the pinxter plant, Azalea nudiflora, 
transforming the flower buds. 
North Greenbush and New Scotland. May and June. 
Exobasidium Andromedae, Peck. 
Gall flattened or somewhat cup shaped, more or less lobed, smooth, pale 
green or green varied with red, becoming paler and pruinose with age, hollow, 
the cavity containing shreds of loose soft cottony filaments; spores narrow, 
oblong, simple, often curved near one end, white, .0007'-.0009' long. 
Lateral on living branches of Andromeda ligustrina, transform- 
ing the leaf buds. 
Center. May and June. 
GASTEROMYCETES. 
Lycoperdon pedicellatum, Peck. 
Subpyriform, whitish, the outer peridium persistent, forming dense angular 
spinose processes which are smaller toward the base of the plant; capillitium 
and spores greenish ochre or dingy olivaceous; spores smooth, pedicellate, 
globose, .00016'~-.00018' in diameter, the pedicel three to five times as long. 
Ground and rotten wood. Croghan and Center. September and 
October. 
The spores resemble those of species of Bovista. 
Diderma crustaceum, Peck. 
Effused or circumambient, crowded, sessile, subglobose, smooth, white, outer 
peridium crustaceous, resembling the shell of some small egg, the inner deli- 
cate, appearing cinereous to the naked eye, iridescent under the microscope; 
columella none; spores globose, black, .0005' in diameter. 
Diderma farinaceum, Peck. 
Effused or circumambient, crowded, sessile, subglobose, plumbeous when 
moist or young, white rugulose and farinaceous when dry; spores globose, 
brown, black in the mags, .0004' in diameter. 
Incrusting mosses and fern stems in low woods. Croghan. Sep- 
tember. 
