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On bark of dead limbs of Betula lutea, LaSalle, Niagara 

 county, G. W. Clinton. Meadowdale, Alban}- county, Dr C. H. 

 Peck. Alcove, Albany county, C L. Shear, no. 176. 



Humaria peckii House, sp. nov. 



Apothecia at first closed, finally opening and becoming shallow, 

 cup-shaped to scutellate, externally pallid, subpruinose, surrounded 

 at the base with a mass of white mycelium, reaching a diameter of 

 4 mm; hymenium slightly concave, pale-yellow or subochraceous ; 

 asci cylindric or subcylindric, reaching a length of 160 ^ and a 

 diameter of 12 ix, attenuated below into a rather long stemlike base; 

 spores ellipsoid or ovoid, i-seriate, each containing one oil-drop, 

 about 8 X 12 fx; paraphyses not exceeding 2 jx in diameter, scarcely 

 thickened above. 



On damp decaying hay accompanied by a Sclerotium. Type 

 collected at Menands, Albany county, N. Y., April 1890, by Dr 

 C. H. Peck. 



Midotis irregularis (Schw.) Sacc. 

 On decayed log of Acer. North Elba, Essex county. C. H. Peck, 

 September 11, 1905. (Determined by Dr F. J. Seaver.) 



Mycosyrinx osmundae Peck 



Transforming portions of the fronds of Osmun.da 

 r e g a 1 i s , into characteristic brown " smutlike " masses. Com- 

 mon at Mud pond near Zurich, Wayne county. H. D. House, July 

 2, 1917. This has also been collected by Doctor Peck at Knox, by 

 S. H. Burnham at Cambridge, and C. G. Pringle (no. 1541) in 

 Vermont. 



Nolanea peckii House, nom. nov. 



Agaricus conicus Peck, Ann. Rep't N. Y. State Mus. 24:66. 1872. 

 Not Ag. conicus Scop. 1772. 



Nolanea conica Peck; Sacc. Syll. 5 723- i887- 



Among moss and on rotten wood in swamp. Sandlake, C. H. 

 Peck, August 1870. Newfoundland, Waghorne no. 287. 



Odontia trachytricha (E. & E.) Burt 

 (Pcniophora trachytricha E. & E., Odontia acerina Peck). 

 Earner, Albany county, H. D. House (no 14.207), October 8, 

 1914. (Det. Burt). 



