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distinct darker colored umbo in the center which becomes very 
prominent and acute in drying. The lamellae are somewhat lutescent 
when young becoming brownish in older specimens. 
Common in sunny sphagnum places in open woods near Oneida. 
H. D. House, August 1914. New to America. 
Leptosphaeria houseana Sacc. 
Albany, on dead stems of Thalictrum dioicum. H.D. 
House, April 1914. Cotype. 
Macrophoma celtidicola Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Pycnidia depressed-globose, carbonous, scattered, seated on the 
cortex, erumpent through the cuticle, 180 » broad; spores hyaline, 
I-3 nucleate and grumous, obovate to oblong, rounded at the ends, 
20-33 by 9-15 pw, on basidia of variable length, mostly 3-4 p» in 
thickness. 
On dead twigs of Celtis occidentalis. Northampton, 
Fulton county. H. D. House, no. 14.15a, May 27, 1914. Type 
in the herbarium of the New York State Museum. 
Marasmius elongatipes Peck 
Oneida, Madison county. H. D. House, August 1914. 
Micropeltis pitya Sacc. 
Tupper Lake, on dead leaves of Abies balsameagetees 
House, August 26, 1913. Cotype. 
Peronospora effusa (Grev.) Rabenh. 
Albany, on living leaves of Chenopodium album. H.D. 
House, October 20, 1914. 
Phoma houseana Sacc. 
Featherstone lake, Schenectady county, on dead stems of Vac- 
cinium corymbosum. H. D. House, July 27, 1913. Cotype. 
Phomopsis viticola Sacc. 
Albany, on dead stems of Vitis aestivalis. H. D. House, 
March 1914. New to the State flora. 
Phomopsis daturae (R. & F.) Sacc. 
Albany, on dead steams of Datura stramonium. H. D. 
House, July 1913. New to the State flora. 
