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peculiar purplish tint. In ashort time the white floceulent threads 
of the fungus appear on the cut surface, soon to be followed by the. 
more waxy and colored patches of spores, thus showing that the 
mycelium has permeated the diseased flesh of the tomato. The 
affected tomatoes become very watery and any surface on which 
a diseased tomato lies, soon becomes wet from the exuding juices. 
From the constaney with which this fungus appears in connection 
with the disease, it would appear that it might be regarded as the — 
cause of the decay, but there are circumstances that point to some 
more subtle agent of the mischief. Further investigation is neces- 
sary to determine satistactorily the source of the disease. 
PEZIZA TRUNCICOMES, Ger. 
Decaying prostrate trunks of deciduous trees. Knowersville, 
Albany county. May. 
PEZIZA ALBOVIOLASCENS, A. &&. 
Old chestnut rails. Conklingville. Septembers 
HELOTIUM EPISPHZERICUM, N. sp. 
Receptacle minute, .012 to .02 inch broad, gregarious, subsessile, 
at first subhyaline, then reddish-yellow, the disk nearly plane, asci 
subeylindrical; spores oblong or lanceolate, .0002 to .00025 inch 
long, .0001 to .00012 broad. 
On old Hypoxylon Morsei. Elizabethtown. September. 
It resembles 7. citrinwm in habit, but is very much smaller. 
ASCOMYCES LETIFER, N. sp. 
Indefinite, hypophyllous, often oecupying the whole lower sur- 
face of the leaf and suftusing it with a glaucous bloom ; asci eylin- 
drical, obtuse or subtruncate, .0016 to .002 inch long, .0006 to 
.0008 broad: spores minute, varying from narrowly elliptical to 
subglobose, .00016 to .0002 inch long, .00008 to .00012 broad. 
Living leaves of mountain maple bush, Acer spicatum.  Eliza- 
bethtown. June. 
The species is very distinct from A. polysporus, which forms 
definite spots. The attacked leaves soon turn black, wither and 
die. Sometimes all the leaves on a branch are affected and the 
fungus then causes a veritable blight. 
