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interior of the poridium near its base in eacli of which a 

 sporangiolo rests. The funirulus is short, but when moist it 

 can be stretched to a great length. This species may be dis- 

 tinguished from C, vernicosus by the less spreading mar- 

 gin of the open peridium and by its much larger spores. 

 Craterium minimum B. & C. 

 Dead sticks and leaves. West Albany. C. cylindricum 

 Massee is a synonym. 



Craterium minutum (Leers) Fr. 

 On mosses. East Berne, Albany co. August. 



Didymium fairmani Sacc. 



On foliage of two leaved Solomon's seal, Unifolium 

 €anadense. Ridge way, Orleans co. C, E. Fairman. 

 Closely allied to D. melanospermum, from which it 

 differs in its rather smaller peridium and spores. The typical 

 form is sessile, but specimens sometimes occur with a short 

 slender stem. 



Physarella multiplicata Macb. in litt. 

 Spreading over ground and living plants. Menands, Albany 

 CO. June. The white Plasmodium spreads over anything in its 

 way and the mature fungus develops from it in 24 hours in 

 very warm weather. 



Empusa grylli Fresen. 



It attacks and kills grasshoppers. Surfaces on which the 

 dead bodies of the grasshoppers rest become whitened by the 

 pyriform conidia of the fungus shed from the bodies of the 

 insects. 



Marsonia pyriformis (Riess) Sacc. 



Upper surface of leaves of silver poplar, Populus alba. 

 Penn Yan. September. F. C. Stewart. 



Septoria polygonina Thuiii. 

 Living leaves of the fringed black bindweed, Polygonum 

 c i 1 i n o d e . Near Loon lake. July. In our specimens the 



