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Conidia hyaline, ovoid to subglobose, 12-14 x 9-10 p, on narrow 
sporophores, sometimes of their own length or longer. 
On leaves of Abies pectinata on limbs which have died 
without casting their leaves. Oneida, Madison county, N. Y. 
H.-.D. House, May 14, 1915. Type in the herbarium of the New 
York State Museum. 
Phoma platanicola Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Pycnidia rather sparsely scattered, raising the ruptured cuticle, 
pale, flat, circular, pseudo-locellate, .3-.5 mm. Conidia hyaline, non- 
guttulate, elliptic to subfusoid, 9-12 x 4—6 p, on sporophores of the 
same length as the conidia, some of which are branched. 
On dead twigs of Platanus occidentalis L. Sylvan 
Beach, Oneida county. H. D. House, June 21, 1915. Type in the 
herbarium of the New York State Museum. This comes near 
Phoma almeidae Sacc. & Trav., the conidia and sporophores 
of which are narrower and of different shape. 
Phyllosticta ambrosioides Thiim. 
On living leaves of Chenopodium ambrosioidesms 
Syracuse, N. Y. H. D. House, August 1915. 
Phyllosticta staphyleae Dearness 
On “blighted” capsules of Staphylea tritol#apae 
near Black lake, north of Leeds, Greene county. H. D. House, 
August 21, IQI5. 
Phyllosticta myricae Cooke 
On living and languishing leaves of Myrica carolinen- 
sis Mill. Sand’s point, Long Island. H. D. House, September 
8, 1915. . 
Phyllosticta steironematis Dearness & House, sp. nov. 
Spots reddish, scattered, circular, 2-3 mm broad or confluent and 
extending over half or the whole of the leaf. Pycnidia amphigen- 
ous, black, 75-150 p, not deeply seated. Conidia hyaline, globose, 
grumous, 5-0 p. 
On living leaves of Steironema ciliatum (ie hae 
North Greenbush, N. Y. H. D. House, July 20, 1915. Type in 
the herbarium of the New York State Museum. The spores of this 
species are very distinct from those of either P. dodecathet 
Trelease or P, lysimachiae Allesch. 
