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Order II. STEMONITACEiC. 

 Stemomtis (Gleditsch) Rost. 



145. Stemonitis fusca (Roth) Rostatinski. Macbride, loc. 

 cit., p. 115. Peck, N. ^^ Myx., 31st Rep., p. 56. Sacc. Syll. , vol. 

 VII., p. 397. Bennett and Murray, Crypt. Bot., fig. 334. On rotten 

 logs, Lyndonville. Rather common. The peridia of this fungus 

 drop off easily and leave nothing !)ut a long, filiform, black stipe, which 

 is seated on-a common hypothallus, of a dark color. In this condition 

 it looks like a mass of upright black hairs on a thin, black crust. 



CoMATRiCHA (Preuss) Rost. 



146. Comatricha stemonitis (Scop.) Sheldon. Macbride, 

 loc. cit.. p. 130 and plate \'I., figs, i, la, id, y, 3^'. Comatricha 

 typhina Roth, in Peck, N. Y. Myx., 31st Rep., p. 56. Sacc. .Syll., 

 vol. VII., p. 394. i^Ste7nonitis typhoides DC. in Peck, 25th Rep., 

 page 83. ) Peck found it on rotten stumps. Berlese in Sacc. Syll. , 

 vol. VII., p. 395, gives its habitat as rotten wood. I found it at 

 Lyndon\'ille in 1890 on horse manure. 



Order III. CRIBRARIACE^. 

 C. TUBIFEREiE. 

 TuBiFERA Gmelin. 



147. Tubifera ferruginosa (Batsch) Macbride. Macbride, 

 loc. cit., p. 157, and plate I., fig. 4 ; plate \'II., fig. 8. Sacc. Syll., 

 vol. VII., p. 406. Peck, 31st Rep., p. 56. This is Tiibulina cylin- 

 drica (Bull.) var. acuta Peck in Fairman, P\mgi of Western N. Y. , 

 Proc. Roch. Acad, of Science, vol. I., page 53. In the Sylloge 

 Fungorum, loc. cit., the peridia are described as " apice rotundatis. " 

 The late Dr. George A. Rex wrote me as follows: "the form of 

 Tubulina with acute apices is common with us, in fact we have Tubu- 

 lina in shapes from flat to acute points." Prof. Macbride says that 

 ' ' the peridia are sometimes acuminate, and widely separate above. 

 This is Persoon's T. fragifonnis.'' 



E. CRIBRARIE.<E. 

 Cribraria (Pers. ) Schrader. 



148. Cribraria tenella Schrad. Macbride, loc. cit., p. 167, 

 plate XVII., fig. 5. Sacc. Syll., vol. \'II., p. 414. On hemlock 

 logs, Lyndonville, 1890. 



