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herbarium of the New York State Museum. Also collected on same 
host at Sylvan Beach, Oneida county, May 13, 1915. ! 
Comparison of this collection with that made by Doctor Peck 
in 1877 on Viburnum lentago (3Ist Rep’t, p. 50. 1879 as 
Massaria gigaspora. Fckl.) shows them to be the same. 
The herbarium name of the specimens upon which this report was 
made was later changed by Doctor Peck to Massaria corni 
(Fr. & Mont.), which also inhabits Viburnum but its sporidia are 
brown and in globose-depressed perithecia. They differ from M. 
gigaspora Fckl. which is said to bear eight spores, four in an 
upper and four in a lower division of the ascus, and to have para- 
physes shorter than the asci. 
Microdiplodia lophiostomoides Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Pycnidia thinly scattered, when well developed rising through 
the closely investing elongate clefts in the bark, and strongly 
resembling a Lophiostoma, I x .25 mm. 
Conidia brown, innumerable, uni-septate, guttate in each cell, 
oblong-elliptic, sometimes constricted, 11-13 x 5-7 p, mostly about 
12 » long,.on basidia often half their length. 
On dead twigs of Liriodendron, tulaprierauees 
Oneida, Madison county, N. Y. H. D. House, May 15, 1915. ee 
in the herbarium of the New York State Museum. 
With one or two out of several sections there was found a 
Leptosphaeria with very minute perithecia, asci 40-45 x 8 w, amber 
sporidia 15 x 4 p, 3-Septate, second cell largest. This might be 
supposed to be L. stictoides only that this species is said to 
have 5-septate sporidia. 
Pestalozzia flagellifera E. & E. 
On dead twigs of Comptonia peregrina (L.) Coulter. 
Near Albany, N. Y. H. D. House, July 19, 1915. 
Phoma florida Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Pycnidia minute, .1 mm densely gregarious, subcuticular, causing 
ashen spots or stripes on the smooth, pale-brown twigs. Conidia 
sessile or nearly so, hyaline, 9 x 3 p, rounded at the ends, mostly 
narrowed at one end. 
On dead twigs of Cornus florida L. Yonkers, N. Y. 
H. D. House, May 8, 1915. 
