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Trichopeziza myricacea (Peck) Sacc. 

 On dead twigs of M y r i c a Gale L., Newcomb, Essex 

 county. H. D. House, June 22, 1923. The type of this species was 

 collected by Doctor Peck on the same host at North Elba. The 

 Newcomb material contains also some Metasphaeria myri- 

 c a e Peck, the only other collection in this State being the type 

 specimens collected by Peck at Caroga. On the Newcomb material 

 is also Diaporthe phomaspora (C. &E.) E. &E., which 

 has also been once collected in this State by Doctor Peck at North 

 Elba, and reported as D . W i b b e i .^ 



Pezizella Lathyri (Desm.) Shear & Dodge- 

 The conidial stage, Hainesia Lathyri (Desm.) von Hohn. 

 on living leaves of Steironema ciliatum (L.) Raf., Sylvan 

 Beach, Oneida county. C. H. Peck. The pycnidial stage, S c 1 e r o - 

 tiopsis concava ( Desm. ) Shear & Dodge ( Leptothy- 

 rium macrothecium Fckl. ) on fallen leaves of Ouercus 

 ilici folia Wang., Karner, Albany county. C. H. Peck. (The 

 exact date of Doctor Peck's collections of this material is unknown.) 



Ombrophila setulata Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Erumpent, .3-1.5 mm. horny when dry, gelatinous when moist, 

 solitary, scattered, exceptionally two or three in a cluster, substipi- 

 tate or merely contracted to a narrow base; exciple leather-brown, 

 involute when dry, prosenchymatous. the cells contracted into fas- 

 cicles at the margin, terminating into acuminate, brown, four-six- 

 septate setae, 60-100 fi long and 10-12 /x thick at the base ; disc gray, 

 plane when moist ; asci cylindric-clavate, obtuse, tips blue with iodine, 

 95-130 X 12/i,: paraphyses linear, hyaline, somewhat enlarged at 

 the tips; sporidia hyaline, continuous, 12-18 fx. long, mostly over 

 16 x 7 /t, many of them with a nucleus filling each end and leaving 

 a granulated zone that simulates a septum. 



Newcomb, Essex count}-, on dead twigs of Acer spicatum 

 Lam. H. D. House, June 8, 1922. 



Belonidium Spiraeae Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Ascomata gregarious, dark brown or black, 1-1.25 mm broad at 

 the top when mature, .75 mm high, erumpent, closed globose at first, 

 then turbinate, margin remaining incurved, becoming stellate or 

 lacerate, ridged-rugose; cells of the ectothecium brown, elongate, 

 many of them about 15 x 3 /t. Asci cylindric or somewhat larger 

 toward the top, not blue with iodine, 60-75 ^ 7~^ l^> paraphyses 



iNew York State Mus. Bui. 197: 28. 1918. 

 - Mycologia 13 : 135-70. pi. 8-10. 1921. 



