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the matrix; head obovate or subglobose; stem slightly 
tapering upward; spores oblong, colorless, .0004’—.0005' 
long. 
Dead stems of Amphicarpea monoica. Portville. Sep- 
tember. (Plate 1, figs. 25-27.) 
STACHYBOTRYS LOBULATA Berk. 
Damp wall paper. Albany. September. 
HAPLOGRAPHIUM APICULATUM 1%. Sp. 
Flocci simple, septate, black, the tips slightly thickened 
and papillose ; spores almond-shaped, very unequal in size, 
.0002’—.00066’ long, with a minute apiculus at each end, 
forming branched moniliform cinereous threads, which 
diminish in size upward. 
Discolored elongated-conical galls of witch hazel leaves. 
Bethlehem. September. (Plate 1, figs 28-33.) 
The galls which this fungus inhabits are those of a plant 
louse, Brysocrypta Hamamelidis Fitch. Messrs. J. A. 
Lintner and H. fF. Bassett. 
MONOTOSPORA BISEPTATA %. SD. 
Effused, black ; flocci erect, simple, Sepia. slightly thick- 
ened at the base, bearing at the apex a single obovate, at 
first pale and uniseptate, then colored and biseptate spore, 
.0O11’-.0013’ long, .0007’ broad, with the basal cell generally 
paler than the others. . 
Decaying wood. Gowanda. Clinton. October. (Plate 
1, figs. 5-8. ) 
The specimens are accompanied by Spheria hirsuta. 
HELMINTHOSPORIUM URTIC& 7. sp. 
Flocci forming elongated effused blackish velvety patches, 
septate, knotty, sometimes slightly branched, the tips paler ; 
spores cylindrical, obtuse, triseptate, colored, about equal 
in diameter to the flocci, but much shorter, .0006’-.001’ long. 
Dead nettle stems. Greenbush. May. 
MACROSPORIUM SAPONARIA 2. SD. 
Spots arid, suborbicular; flocci short, stout, septate, 
obtuse, colored; spores oblong-clavate, brown or oliva- 
