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Sphaerella populnea Sacc. 
Tupper Lake, on dead areas of living leaves of Populus 
balsamifera, associated upon the same leaves with Sep- 
toria populicola Peck. H. D. House, August 22, 1913. 
Cotype. 
Sporodesmium pilulare Sacc. 
Albany, on dead bark of Juniperus virginiana. H. D. 
House, July 1913. Cotype. 
Rhabdospora clarkeana Sacc. 
Sand lake, Rensselaer county, on dead stems of Aquilegia 
canadensis. H. D. House, July 4, 1913. Cotype. Named in 
honor of Dr J. M. Clarke, Director of the New York State Museum. 
Ramularia obovata Fckl. 
Karner, Albany county, on living leaves of Rumex obtusi- 
folius. H.D. House, no. 250, October 8, 1914. 
Russula variata Banning. 
A common species in the sandy oak woods near Sylvan Beach, 
Oneida county, at the eastern end of Oneida lake. Collected there 
in August 1914, by H. D. House. 
Venturia gaultheriae E. & E. 
- Karner, Albany county, on living leaves of Gaultheria 
procumbens. H. D. House, no. 212, October 8, 1914. 
Macrophoma peckiana Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Pycnidia scattered, sometimes confluent, seated on the phloem 
fibers and raising the epidermis into oval, ruptured pustules 1 by 
34 mm; the short or flat black ostiola visible usually through a gray 
pulverulent layer of the disorganized cortex; spores hyaline, 10-12 
by 4-414 p, wall 1 » thick, on short basidia. 
’ On dead twigs of Ceanothus americanus Linn. North 
Greenbush, Rensselaer county, collected by Dr C. H. Peck. 
Thyridium ceanothi Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Perithecia carbonous, thickly and evenly scattered, globose, 160— 
360 pm, raising the epidermis through which shows the shining black 
stromatic shield ; ostiola short punctiform; asci paraphysate, clavate, 
