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Diaporthe obscura Peck 
On dead stems of Geum strictum Ait. Pecksport, Madi- 
son county. H. D. House, July 2, 1915. 
Diatrype woolworthi (Peck) Sacc. 
(Valsa woolworthi Peck) 
The original description states that the host is oak or hickory, 
and in order to settle definitely the identification of the host a care- 
ful examination made of the wood structure cf the type specimens 
shows it to be Hicoria glabra. 
Diplodia cercidis E. & E. 
On dead twigs of Cercis canadensis L. (eulty ime 
Oneida, Madison county. H. D. House, May 15, 1915. Also col- 
lected on Cercis japonica at Lyndonville, Orleans county, 
by Dr C. E. Fairman (no. 929), July 20, 1909. 
Ectostroma liriodendri (Kuntze) Fr. 
A sterile fungus producing Rhytisma-like spots and blotches on 
fallen leaves of Liriodendron tulipifiera Loy) Walley 
Mills, Madison county. H.D. House, July 21, 1913. Also collected 
at Kirkville, Onondaga county, by Prof. L. M. Underwood, Sep- 
tember 1888. 
Eutypella glandulosa Cooke 
On dead branches of Ailanthus glandulosa Desf. 
Yonkers. H.D. House, May 8, 1915. Albany, H. D. House, June 
LO, IO15. 
Eutypella ludibunda Sacc. 
On dead branches of Viburnum lantana Linn. Culti- 
vated in Washington Park, Albany, N. Y. Collected by H. D. 
House, March 5, 1915. 
The stromata are thickly and evenly scattered along the dead 
branches of the host, their black disks but slightly raised above the 
cuticle; perithecia 4-10, immersed in a whitish or wood-colored 
portion of the cortex and sometimes impressing the wood after the 
manner of some species of Diaporthe; the pale matrix bears a black 
covering which becomes continuous as a blackened layer between 
the cortex and the wood; the perithecia are pale and not of uniform 
depth in the stroma; stromata short-erumpent, black, some of them 
very obscurely stellate-cleft; asci sessile, 33-45 x 6-7 m; sporidia 
