26 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
NEW OR INTERESTING SPECIES OF FUNGI 
BY HOMER D. HOUSE 
Aecidium lini Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Aecia caulicolous and amphigenous but mostly hypophyllous, in 
irregular groups or scattered, on discolored areas which are yellow- 
ish at first and finally reddish brown, small, 200 pw in diameter ; 
peridium pale yellow, erose-truncate or lacerate and recurved, rising 
about 50 » over the ruptured cuticle, cells rhomboidal, wider dis- 
ally, overlapping, prominently verrucose, variable in size, averaging 
about 22 by 15 p, wall 4-5 mw thick; aeciospores yellow, globose to 
ellipsoid, 18 to 22 by 16 p,wall minutely verrucose, hardly 2 » thick. 
On stems and leaves of Linum virginianum. On herbar- 
ium specimens collected by Dr Charles H. Peck at Amagansett, 
Long Island, N. Y:, July (the year not given). Type aimee 
herbarium of the New York State Museum. 
Ascochyta clematidina Thumen 
North Greenbush, on living leaves of Clematis virgin- 
jana... HH. D..,House, no.247 October Lo; 1914: 
Asteroma ribicolum E. & E. 
North Greenbush, on living leaves of Ribes americana. 
H. D. House, no. 248, October 10, 1914. This and the last men- 
tioned species are both new to the State flora. 
Cercospora dubia (Riess) Wint. 
Albany, on living leaves of Chenopodium album. H.D. 
House, October 20, 1914. 
Cercospora teucrii E. & K. 
Orient Point, Suffolk county, Long Island, on living leaves of 
Teucrium canadense. Roy Latham, August T429oum 
New to the State flora. 
Coniosporium lumulosum Sacc. 
Tupper Lake, on dead wood of Pinus strobus. H. D. 
House, August 26, 1913. Cotype. 
Cortinarius distans Peck 
Oneida, Madison county. H. D. House, August'1914. The type 
locality is Greenbush, Rensselaer county, and the species has also 
been collected in the counties of Albany, Essex, Suffolk and Warren. 
