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Phoma ailanthi Saccardo. 
On dead shoots of Ailanthus glandulosus_ Desf. 
Yonkers. H. D. House, May 8, 1915. Albany. H. D. House, 
Wage 10; 1915. 
Phoma imperialis Sacc. & Roum. 
(Phoma paulowniae Sacc. not Thiim.) 
On twigs of Paulownia tomentosa (Thunb.) Baill. 
Yonkers, N. Y. H. D. House, May 8, 1915. 
The typical species inhabits petioles of Paulownia imperi- 
alis in France. The description in the Sylloge is rather meager to 
establish positively the identity of the Yonkers material, but for 
the nonessential fact that the former was on petioles while ours 
inhabits twigs, there is no difference so far as the description of the ~ 
type goes. The following description is drawn from the Yonkers 
material. 
Pycnidia immersed in the thin bark, mostly elliptic, I x .25—.3 mm, 
flat, dark brown or black and showing through the epidermis which 
is pierced by the short conic stomata; conidia abundant, hyaline, 
somewhat acutely elliptic, nucleate, 6-9 x 3 » on basidia of about 
their own length. 
Phoma paulowniae Thim. is quite distinct. 
Phoma linariae Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Pycnidia dark brown, very numerous, flat to subglobose or 
depressed around the small central stomata which pierce the cuticle, 
150-200 p» in diameter ; conidia numerous, hyaline, oblong to some- 
what curved, 2-3 x I p. 
On dead stems of Linaria vulgaris Mill. Albany, N. Y. 
H. D. House, May 23, 1915. 
Phoma longipes B. & C. 
Orient Point, Long Island. On Morus alba L. Roy Latham, 
May 1, 1911. Reported as Phoma moricola Sacc. by Burn- 
ham and Latham in Torreya 14:210. I9gI4. 
Phoma pectinata Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Pycnidia strictly hypophyllous, flat-globose to conic-globose, 
black, minutely perforate, stellately or cleftwise rupturing the raised 
cuticle, disposed in linear ranks, a few to about 20 on each side of 
the midvein, .25-.35 mm. 
