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collected by Doctor Stewart at Floral Park, Long Island, on the 

 same host species in 1895. 



Phyllosticta minutissima E. & E. 

 On leaves of Acer pennsylvanicum L., Osceola, Lewis 

 county. H. D. House, September 20, 1922. The spores and position 

 agree (2 x J/2-^ (i) with the description. It lacks, however, the 

 3'ellow bordering and the association with the Cylindrosporium, a 

 curious feature of the typical western form of the species on Acer 

 g 1 a b r u m . 



Phyllosticta Syriaca Sacc. 

 Napanoch, Ulster county, on leaves of cultivated garden okra 

 (Hibiscus esculentus L.). H. D. House, August 21, 

 1921. In general characters this seems to be nearest to Phyllos- 

 ticta Syriaca, but the spores are not uniform, taking one 

 leaf with another, and some of them are septate. Stevens'"*^ reports 

 this fungus on Hibiscus Syriacus L., from Syracuse. 



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

 On dead twigs of Quercus ilicifolia Wang., and on 

 cynipid galls (Neuroterus) on same twigs. Albany. H. D. House, 

 April 28, 1923. 



Macrophoma Pernettyae Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Pycnidia hypophyllous, black, innate, erumpent, subglobose, ris- 

 ing 1.6 mm above the ruptured cuticle and completed by a cylindrical 

 ostiolum .1 mm high and .1 mm thick. Conidia elliptic-oblong to 

 obovate-oblong, hyaline, clear or grumous, 21-24 x 12 /x, wall 

 I fj. thick. 



On languishing leaves of Pernettya coriacea Kl. on 

 the rocky summit of Chiriqui volcano, Panama, 3600 meters altitude. 

 E. P. Killip, February 2y. 191 8. The affected portion of the leaf 

 is paler or grayer than the adjacent unafifected surface. 



SCOPAPHOMA Dearness & House, gen. nov. 

 Phomataceous, pycnidia with papillate or short -beaked ostiola and 

 hyalo-scolecosporous conidia upon dendroid or scopaform conidio- 

 phores to which they are adnate by long, attenuated extensions of 

 the epispore. Type species : Scopaphoma Corioli. 



2* Journal of Mycology 13:69. 1907. 



