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The apparatus and materials necessary for the study are not 

 extensive. There are needed : 

 A microscope. 



The optical combination which the author uses contains 



a Gundlach i obj. of 75°, a separable fds, and a Bausch and 



Lomb yV homogeneous immersion. 

 An accurate micrometer. 

 Camera lucida. 

 Pocket lens. 

 Sharp knives. 



The following books are valuable : 



Ellis and Everhart's North American Pyrenomycetes. 



The Reports of the State Botanist of N. Y. , Charles H. Peck. 



Saccardo's Sylloge Fungorum. 



Berlese, Icones. 



Farlow and Seymour's Host Index. 



The statement of Cooke remains true, viz. : 



' ' The life-history of the majority of species has still to be read, 

 and the prospects of new discoveries for the industrious and persever- 

 ing student are great. All who have as yet devoted themselves with 

 assiduity have been in this manner rewarded. The objects are easily 

 obtainable and there is a constantly increasing infatuation in the study.' ' 



In the present list the numbers run on consecutively from the 

 author's lists previously published in the Proceedings of the Rochester 

 Academy of Science. At the time of their collection the following 

 numbers had not been reported from the state, viz., 224, 228, 235, 

 236, 237, 246, 252, 261, 271, 272, 276, 283, 284, 295, 298, 299, 302, 

 304, 305, 309, 313. 325. 326, 330, 331, 334, 336, 339, 347, 348, 349, 

 352, 353, 354. Some of the above have been reported in Prof. Peck's 

 reports, since their collection. The following numbers are the new- 

 species of Pyrenomyceteae found here, viz., 237, 252, 283, 295, 302, 

 309, 331. 336, 347. 348, 349. 353 and 354. 



In the present list the following are the proposed new species, 

 viz., 336, 348, 349, 353, 354. 



