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Didymella asterinoides (E. & E.) Rehm 
Dead stems of wild teasel Dipsacus sylyestras 
Huds. Lyndonville. May. C. E. Fairman. This is Sphae- 
Feila “asterinoides E.cG&.£; 
Dothidea baccharidis Cke. 
Dead branches of groundsel bush, Baccharis halimi- 
Polda iL -Onent: Point. April sR. Vatham, 
Escholtzia californica Cham. 
Cobbs Hill reservoir. Rochester. September. This is com- 
monly called California poppy. It is abundant on the steep 
banks of the reservoir and is apparently well and permanently 
established. 
Flammula graveolens Pk. 
Forbes Manor grounds in old sawdust. Rensselaer. November. 
S. H. Burnham. 
Helicopsis punctata n. sp. 
Cespitose; tufts gregarious, minute, .25-.5 mm broad, brown; 
hyphae very short or obsolete, irregular, slender, hyaline; spores 
convolute, forming a spiral, 6-8-septate, usually with a nucleus 
in each cell, colored, persistent, 4-5 m broad. 
Inside of bark scales of some species of Prunus. April. Lyn- 
donville. C. E. Fairman. 
Caespites gregarii, minuti, .25-.5 mm lati, brunnei; hyphae 
brevissimae vel obsoletae, irregulares, graciles, hyalinae; sporae 
convolutae, spiram 6—-8-septatem, 4-5 p latam, coloratam, persis- 
tentem, cellis uninucleatis, formantes. 
Heliomyces pruinosipes n. sp. 
Pileus tremelloid, thin, submembranaceous, broadly convex 
or depressed by the upcurving of the margin, glabrous, hygro- 
phanous, bright orange red when moist, reddish brown when 
dry, odor strong, disagreeable; lamellae thin, narrow, close, 
adnate, pallid; stems slender, hollow, dark reddish brown, usu- 
ally pruinose or slightly pubescent above, whitish tomentose 
at the base and there fasciculately united; spores not seen. 
Pileus 1-2 cm broad; stem 2-3 cm long, 1.2-2.5 mm thick. 
Around old stumps of coniferous trees. Vaughns. August 
and September. S. H. Burnham. On bark. Ithaca. Septem- 
ber. G. F. Atkinson. 
