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Diplodia spiraeina Sacc. 

 Dead branches of nine bark, Physocarpus opulifolius 

 (L.) Maxim. Near Rensselaer lake, Albany co. May. S. H. 

 Burnham. 



Diplodina medicaginis Oud. 

 Dead stems of alfalfa, Medicago sativa L. Geneva. 

 April. F. C. Stewart. 



Flammula sulphurea n. sp. 



Plate VII, figures "j-ii 



Pileus fleshy, subconic or convex becoming broadly convex, 

 glabrous, viscid, hygrophanous, watery yellow when moist, sulfur 

 yellow after the escape of the moisture, sometimes with whitish 

 silky fibrillose scales on the margin, flesh white when dry, odor and 

 taste disagreeable; lamellae thin, close, arcuate, adnate, crenulate 

 on the margin, whitish becoming dark ferruginous; stem equal, 

 flexuous, fibrillose or squamulose below, stuffed or hollow, pale yel- 

 low and naked at the top, ferruginous toward the base ; spores dark 

 ferruginous, 8-i i x 5-6 /t. 



Pileus 2-6 cm broad ; stem 2f-(i cm long, 4-8 mm thick. 



Cespitose or densely gregarious. Grassy ground under apple 

 trees or in orchards. October. Menands, Albany co. Canandaigua. 

 Miss E. C. Webster. Geneva. F. C. Stewart. Pittsford, Monroe 

 CO. F. S. Boughton. 



This species is related to Flammula s p u m o s a Fr. with 

 w^hich it has probably been confused but from which it is easily 

 distinguished by its place of growth, its more cespitose mode of 

 growth, the uniform pale yellow color, fibrillose margin of the pileus, 

 white flesh and larger spores. Its color is suggestive of F. 

 a 1 n i c o 1 a Fr., but it is readily separated from that by its place 

 of growth, white flesh and viscid hygrophanous pileus. It is worthy 

 of remark that this species has appeared for the first time this 

 season in four distinct localities and in each one under or near 

 apple trees. 



Fusarium pirinum (Fr.) Sacc. 

 On decaying pears. ]\Ienands. August. 



Ganoderma sessile Murr. 

 Dead wood of oak and elm. Poebles island, Waterford, Saratoga 

 CO. September. S. H. Burnham. New York. W. H. Ballou. It 



