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House, August 4, 1921. It agrees with the features set forth in the 

 incomplete description given by Fries,^ except that in these speci- 

 mens the fungus is strictly hj-pophyllous ; the asci are 50-70 x 6 ;«,, 

 and are overtopped by the club-shaped paraphyses. As a matter o£ 

 record it may be placed for the present as a variety of L . O x y - 

 cocci. 



Lophodermium sphaerioides (A. & S.) Duby 



(Hypoderma sphaerioides Kuntze) 

 On languishing and fallen leaves of Ledum groenlandi- 

 c u m Oeder. North Creek, Warren county. H. D. House, June 



25, 1923- 



Lophodermium tumidum (Fr.) Rehm 



(Hysterium tumidum Fr. ; Coccomyces tumidus 



DeNot.) 



A very conspicuous fungus, almost everywhere present in the 

 Adirondack region, on dead fallen petioles of Sorbus ameri- 

 c a n a Marsh. Indian pass, 3000 feet altitude. H. D. House, July 

 2, 1923. Calamity pond, June 20, 1923. Newcomb, June 28, 1923. 

 Edmonds ponds (Cascade lakes). C. H. Peck (identified by Peck 

 as Lophodermium petiolicolum ( Fr. ) Fckl. ) 



Hypoderma strobicola Tubeuf^" 

 Parasitic on the living and languishing needles of P i n u s 

 r i g i d a Mill, near New London, Oneida county. H. D. House, 

 June 28, 1 92 1. The sporidia are 20-27 x 3.5-5 /a, and surrounded by 

 a gelatinous envelop 28-33 ^ 10-15 A^- O^ needles of Pinus 

 Strobus L., Roslyn, Long Island. /. /. Levison, December i, 

 1916. 



Hypoderma rufilabrum (B. & C.) Duby 

 Newcomb, Essex county, on dead twigs of Acer spicatum 

 Lam. H. D. House, June 20, 1923. 



Pseudographis Phragmitis Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Apothecia scattered, erumpent, externally black and rugulose, at 

 first perforate, then widely gaping, white-rimmed around the mouth, 



9 Fries. Syst. Myc. 2: 588. 1823. 



10 Lophodermium brachysporum Rostr. Tids. Skoobrug 6: 251. 

 1883. Hypoderma brachyspora Tubeuf, 1895. Not Spegazzini, 1887. 



