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in diameter. Conidia hyaline, continuous, straight or curved, 

 16-30x.5-.75 fi. 



On Hving leaves of H i e r a c i u m p a n i c u 1 a t u m L. Catskill 

 mountains, August 1880. Dr C. H. Peck. Type in the New York 

 State Museum herbarium. 



Septoria hydrophylli Ell. & Dearness 

 On living and languishing leaves of Virginia waterleaf , Hydro- 

 p h y 11 u m V i r g i n i a n u m L. Oneida, Madison county, May 15, 

 1918. H. D. House. 



Septoria leptostachyae Ell. & Kellerm. 

 On living leaves of the lopseed, Phyrma leptostachya L. 

 Oneida, Madison county, July 18, 1918. H. D. House. 



Septoria vincae Desm. 



On living and languishing leaves of V i n c a minor L. Chit- 

 tenango Falls. Madison county. May 17, 1918. H. D. House. 



Solenia poriaeformis (DC.) Fckl. 

 (Peziza pruinata Sclix^-.: Tapesia pruinata Sacc: Tapesia poriaeformis Fckl.) 

 On decorticated surface of decayed wood on the ground in damp 

 woods, Oneida, Madison county, September i. 1918. H. D. House. 



Sphaeropsis foliicola Berl. & Roum. 

 On living leaves of wild thorn, Crataegus sp., Portage. 

 August 15, 1904. Dr C. H. Peck. 



Sphaeropsis hyalina B. & C. 

 (Macrophoma hyalina (B. & C.) Berl. & Vogl.) 



On dead twigs of red ash. P" r a x i n u s p e n n s y 1 v a n i c a 

 Marsh. Glenmont. Albany county, May 9, 1918. H. D. House. 



The collection is interesting because a few pycnidia contain brown 

 spores, and such would have to be referred to Sphaeropsis 

 p e n n s y 1 V a n i c a B. & C. Many of the spores are quite hyaline, 

 and clearly belong to what is described as Sphaeropsis 

 hyalina. In size they average from 20 to 26 micr. in length, 

 but none were quite ^2 micr. long. There is either a mixture of two 

 very closely related species here or else the hyaline spored form 

 eventually matures into a smoky brown spored form in which case, 

 as we suspect, Sphaeropsis hyalina B. &C., and Sphae- 

 ropsis pennsylvanica B. & C. are the same. Both were 



