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upon living branches of the hemlock at Elizabethtown, Essex 
county, and further study of the species may prove it to be the 
cause of considerable damage to living hemlocks. 
Gloeosporium coryli (Desm.) Sace. 
Near Albany, on leaves of Corylus americana Walt. 
H. D. House no. 14.136, September 12, 1914, and August 13, IQI5. 
Hewitt’s pond, Adirondacks. Doctor C. H. Peck, July. 
Gloeosporium divergens Peck 
(See figure 2) 
The leaves of the white oak (Quercus alba) are fre 
quently dishgured by the attacks of this fungus and during the 
season of 1915 several serious outbreaks of this disease were noted 
in various localities. Young trees, sprout leaves and particularly 
seedlings in nurseries seem to suffer most severely but mature trees 
are by no means immune. This is probably the same fungus as 
described by Ellis and Everhart as Gloeosporium cana- 
die nisie . 
Gloeosporium sassafras (Cooke) E. & K. 
(Phyllosticta sassafras Cooke) 
On-leaves of Sassafras variifolium (Salisb.) Kimmie 
Merrick, Long Island. H. D. House, September 9, 1915. 
Haplosporella peckii (Sacc.) House, nom. nov. 
(Sphaeropsis anomala Peck, 24th Ann. Rep’t, N. Y. State Mus. 86, 1872. Not 
S) anomala B20G. Ge) 
Sphaeropsis peckii Sacc. Syll. 3:293. 1804. 
An odd species with the aspect of a Tympanis, the caespitose peri- 
thecia which are seated on the inner bark break through rather 
large transverse chinks in the bark; ostiola papillate; spores oblong, 
20-25 » in length. On the bark of dead cherry limbs near Albany. 
(Prescott. ) 
Hendersonia staphyleae FE. & E. 
On dead twigs of Staphylea trifoliata TL G@reen 
pond near Jamesville, Onondaga county. H. D. House, August 21, 
1915. The same species has been collected near Albany by Doctor 
Peck: 
Hygrophorus fuligineus Frost 
In rich stony soil in a pine grove near North Bay, Oneida county. 
H. D. House, October 12, 1915. Doctor Peck reports it only from 
Albany county, in pine groves. The species is remarkable for the 
