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Melanomma inspissum (Schw.) Cooke 

 On decorticated wood of F a g u s g r a n d i f o 1 i a Erhr. 

 Ampersand, N. Y. C. H. Peck, September 1896. The minute ostiola 

 and the triseptate, fuscus spores, 12 to 14 /a long separate this from 

 M . p u 1 V i s - p y r i u s ( Pers. ) Fckl. 



Metasphaeria squamata (C. & E.) Sacc. 

 On decorticated and weathered wood of Pinus. Santa Rita 

 mountains, Arizona. C. G. Pringle, no. 50. May 29, 1881. 



Mycosphaerella opuntiae (E. & E.) Dearness, comb. nov. 

 (Sphaerella opuntiae E. & E. Jour. Myc. 1888, p. 97.) 

 On dead or languishing leaves of Opuntia opuntia (L.) 

 Coult. Long Island, C. H. Peck (date not indicated). 



Mytilidion fusisporum (Cooke) Sacc. 

 On decorticated and weathered wood of Pinus s t r o b u s . 

 North Elba, Essex county. C. H. Peck, August 1898. Described 

 by Cooke on bark and branches of pine in England. 



Patellaria atrata (Hedw.) Fr. 

 (Lecanidion atratum Rabenh.) 

 On decorticated and much weathered wood of Acer. Menands, 

 Albany county. C. H. Peck. 



Phlyctaena arcuata Berkeley 

 On dead stems of Helianthus annuus. Orient, Long 

 Island. Roy Latham, no. 726. April 2, 1916. Spores filiform, 

 arcuate to falcate, 25 fi long. 



Phyllachora graminis panici Shear 

 On leaves of P a n i c u m c 1 a n d e s t i n u m . Hempstead, 

 Long Island. H. D. House, September 8, 1916. 



Phyllachora haydeni (B. & C.) Dearness, comb. nov. 

 Dothidea haydeni B. &C. North Am. Fungi, n. 881. 

 Ophiodothis haydeni Sacc. Syll., 2: 653. 1883. 



Prof. G. F. Atkinson (Jour. Myc, 11 : 257) says that the Berke- 

 ley material shows only conidia. Professor Dearness has collected 

 this on Solidago stems in Ontario, June 1888, and found asci, 



