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Stereum purpureum Pers. 

 Oneida, Madison county, on dead stump of some hardwood tree. 

 H. D. House, November 25, 1918. 



Stereum rameale Schw. 

 Oneida, jMadison county, on fallen trunk of Betula lutea 

 Michx. f ., H. D. House, May 13, 1918 ; and on A 1 n u s s e r r u - 

 lata Willd., Albany, November 8, 1919 ; on A 1 n u s s e r r u - 

 lata Willd. near Napanoch, Ulster county. October 6, 1919. 



Uredo Bigelowii (Thum.) Arthur 

 ( M e 1 a m p s o r a Bigelowii Thum. ) 

 II and III, on leaves of Salis pyrifolia Anderss., Bona- 

 parte swamp, Lewis county, H. D. House, June 22. A new host 

 species for this common rust in New York. The aecial stage on 

 Larix laricina (DuRoi) Koch, was also collected at Bona- 

 parte swamp, on the same date. 



Ustilago Heufleri Fckl. 

 (U. erythronii G. W". Clinton) 

 Near Oriskany Falls, Oneida cotuity, on living leaves of E r y • 

 thronium americanum Ker. H. D. House, May 26. 



Venturia ccmp2cta Peck 

 Newcomb. Essex county, on leaves of Ox y coccus Oxy- 

 coccus (L.) MacM., H. D. House, July 24. This constitutes a 

 new host for this fungus in this State. All the several other col- 

 lections in the state herbarium are on Oxycoccus macro- 

 carpus (Ait.) Pers. 



Pezicula fasciculata (Tode) comb. nov. 



Tubercularia fasciculata Tode, Meckl. Fungi, 1790 ; P e z i z a 

 c a r p i n e a Pers. ; Pezicula carpinea Tul. 



On dead branches of Carpinus Carolinian a. Fish 



Creek, Oneida county, H. D. House, September 1918. 



