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extreme viscidity of the pileus and stem, especially when young, 
when it is so viscid that it is almost impossible to hold. 
Hysterium staphylina (Pk.) Dearness & House 
Perithecia thickly scattered, erumpent through the epidermis, 
shining, black, round, 100-270 p» in diameter to elongate, straight or 
bent, .25-2 mm x .15-.3 mm, rather widely cleft. 
Asci covered by a thin parenchymatous layer, fusoid-clavate, 
mostly 75 x 15 w, some shorter and stouter, others much longer and 
narrower, paraphyses obscure. 
Sporidia biseriate to crowded and overlapping, hyaline, 3-7 sep- 
tate, finally brown and 5-8 septate, second, third or fourth cell from 
the top enlarged, usually slightly constricted below the lower half; 
the hyaline spores 18-30x 5-6 p, the longest brown spore seen 
measured 45 x 6 yp. 
On dead twigs and branches of Staphylea trifoliata 
L. Helderberg mountains, N. Y. C. H. Peck, May. This was 
Dubished as Sphaeria staphylima Peck (= Meta- 
Somaeria.staphylina )Sace.) im the 26th Report ot the 
State Botanist, page 86, and imperfectly described. This lacks the 
black crust of Hysterium insidens Schw. but the micro- 
scopic characters are similar. 
This redescription of Doctor Peck’s type material of Sphaeria 
staphylina was prompted by the discovery in Ulster county of 
a good Metasphaeria upon the same host and which did not match 
his material, the name of which had been transferred to Meta- 
sphaeria by Saccardo. 
Leptostromella hysterioides (Fr.) Sacc. 
On dead stems of Helianthus decapetalus L. Ken- 
wood swamp, Oneida, Madison county. H. D. House, May 15, 
1915. Sporules curved, 20-21 x 2-2%4 pu. 
Macrosporium saponariae Peck 
Oneida, Madison county, on Saponaria officinalis 
ieian, EH. D, Hose; june 20, 1615: 
Morchella semilibera DC. 
Kenwood swamp, near Oneida, Madison county. H. D. House, 
May 15, 1915. Also collected there in May 1885 by Mr Henry A. 
Warne, who also collected the same species near Madison, Madison 
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