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often they are straight and erect. In color they are often red- 

 dish-brown or chestnut. I have never seen any fruit on an 

 afifected branch. 



^cidium Lupini n. sp. 



Spots numerous, small, orbicular, at first yellowish-green, 

 becoming purplish-brown with age ; spermogones epiphyllous, 

 central ; peridia hypophyllous, crowded, short ; spores globose, ver- 

 ruculose, orange-yellow, .001 to .0016 in. broad. 



Living leaves of common lupine, Lupinus perennis. Karner. 

 June. 



s Uredo Chimaphilse n. sp. 



Spots none ; sori chiefly hypophyllous, scattered or crowded, a 

 long time cQvered by the epidermis, yellow or pale-orange ; spores 

 narrowly ovate oblong or subelliptical, .001 to .0012 in. long, 

 .0005 to .0007 broad. 



Living leaves and flowers of spotted wintergreen, Chimaphila 

 maculata. Amagansett. July. 



The fungus seems to kill the leaves it attacks. 



Cylindrium elongatum Bon. 

 Fallen leaves of chestnut. Shokan, September. 



Cylindrium griseum Bon. 



Fallen leaves of chestnut-oak, Quercus Prinus. Shokan. Sep- 

 tember. Much like the preceding species, but distinguished by 

 its gray color. 



Verticillium sphaerophiluni n. sp. 



Hyphae minutely and stellately tufted, white, sparingly 

 branched ; branches one to three at a node, rather long, gradu- 

 ally tapering upward; spores elliptical, .0003 in. long, .00ul5 

 broad. 



On Hypoxylon coccineum. Shokan. September. 



The Verticillium appears to develop from the ostiola of its host. 



Periconia tenuissima n. sp. 



Effused, forming a thin indefinite purplish-brown downy 

 stratum on the matrix ; fertile hyphje erect, slender, simple, 

 scarcely septate, .011 to .014 in. long, .00015 thick ; spores aggre- 

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