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Conidia separably amber colored, ranging in length from 33 to 45 /j., 

 and in width from 14 to 20 fi, on stout conidiophores 6-20 x 6-8 (i. 



On dead branches of Cydonia japonica Pers., Skane- 

 ateles, 'Onondaga county. /. D. Smith, April 29, 1921. 



Pestalozzia funerea Desm. 



On dead foliage and twigs of Thuja o c c i d e n t a 1 i s L., 

 hanging on the living trees, Houseville, Lewis county. H. D. House, 

 June 8, 1923. 



Pestalozzia Gaultheriae Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Acervuli amphigenous, but mostly hypophyllous, dark brown, 

 erumpent and margined by the ruptured cuticle, 90-200 fx. Conidia 

 fusoid, inequilaterally curved, 15-24 x 4.5-6 /*, four septate, the 

 end cells hyaline, the three interior cells pale brown, the apical cell 

 crowned by three or occasionally four hyaline setulae of different 

 lengths, the longest sometimes exceeding the length of the body of 

 the conidium, hut mostly about 6.5-16 jx in length. 



On dead leaves of G a u 1 1 h e r i a sp. summit of Piedro de Lino, 

 Panama. E. P. Killip, February 24, 191 8. Pestalozzia gib- 

 bo s a Harkness, and P. Sydowiana Bresadola, inhabit 

 Gaultheria leaves, but both are epiphyllous and have conidia larger 

 than the one here described. 



Septogloeum Apocyni Peck 



Newcomb, Essex county, on leaves of A p o c y n u m a n d r o - 

 s a e m i f o 1 i u m L. H. D. House, August 2, 192 1. 



HYPOMYCETES 



Diplosporium filavidum Dearness & House, sp. nov. 

 The yellowish masses of hyphae and spores appearing in the 

 lenlicels of the host, also on the cut surface of the wood. Hyphae 

 10-12 //, thick at the base, irregularly branching in a dendritic man- 

 ner, reducing finally to elongated, weak and mingled branches of 

 about 3 [x in thickness. Conidia subobovate, vuiiseptate, hyaline like 

 the hyphae under the microscope, 14-27 x 8-15 fi, mostly about 

 20 X 10 /x, rounded at the upper end and obtusely pointed at the 

 lower end ; wall 2 fx thick. 



On Betula alba L.. which had been in a damp cellar for 

 ?ome time. Albany, H. D. House, November 23, 1919. The limbs 

 from which these chunks of wood were cut had been killed by the 

 bronze birch borer (Agrilus anxius Gory) . 



