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Tapesia Rosae, Phil. 

 Dead stems of wild rose. Lyndonville. May. Fairman. 



Helotium mycetophilum, n. sp. 



Receptacles gregarious, minute, .01 to .014 in. broad, sessile or 

 with a very short stem, plane or convex, scarcely margined, yellowish 

 externally, the hymenium orange; asci oblanceolate, .00.3 in. long, 

 .0004 broad, paraphyses filiform ; spores oblong-elliptical, simple, the 

 endochrome sometimes divided, .0006 to .0007 in. long, about half as 

 broad. 



On old Polyporous fomentarius. Rainbow. August. 



Much smaller than H. citrinum and distinguished from it by its 

 larger spores and orange-colored hymenium. Also distinct from H. 

 episphcericum by the character of the spores. 



Cenangium rubiginosum, Cke. 

 Dead twigs of water beech, Carpinun Americana. Mechanicville. July. 



Coronophora gregaria, FcH. 

 Dead branches of mountain ash, Pyrus Americana. Cascadeville. July.* 



Hsematomyces faginea, n. sp. 



[Plate 4. Figs. 5 to 7.] 



Tremelloid, cerebrifonn, one to two inches in diameter, gyrose-lobate, 

 glabrous, shining, raisin color without and within; asci nearly cylin- 

 drical, eight- spored, .0024 in. long, .0003 broad; paraphyses slender, 

 very slightly thickened above; spores generally uniseriate, narrowly 

 elliptical, colorless, .0003 in. long, .00P15 to .0002 broad. 



Dead trunks of beech, i^ayus /errwr/mea. Rainbow.' August. 



The plants are nearly as thick as they are broad and appear as if 

 composed of several confluent individuals. The color resembles 

 somewhat that of a ripe Catawba grape though darker. Without 

 examination of the spores the plant might easily be taken for a species 

 of Tremella. It shrinks very much in drying and is then very hard. 



Barya parasitica, Fckl. 



[Plate 4. Figs. 13 to 17.] 



Parasitic on a sphaeriaceous fungus, Bertia moriformis, on decaying 

 wood of beech. Catskill mountains. September. 



Our plant differs in some respects from Fuckel's figure and descrip- 

 tion of the species, yet it is apparently only a variety and not specifi- 

 cally distinct. The perithecia are crowded together in dense tufts or 

 clusters and sometimes taper above into a rather long neck. The 



