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This fungus is very closely allied to Flasmopara viticola, B. k De T. 

 Peronospora viticola of most authors, of which it may prove to be only 

 a variety. It is much smaller than that plant and does not form dense 

 downy tufts or jDatches, but is so scattered and sparse in its mode of 

 growth as to be not easily visible to the naked eye. Conidia of mon- 

 strous size are not rare, but oospores were not seen. Its habit of 

 following the veins of the leaf is peculiar. 



Sporotrichum cohserens, Schw. 

 On an old wooden pail in a cellar. Menands. September. 



Sporotrichum cinereum, n. sp. 



Patches oblong, effused, pulverulent, cinereous; hyphae very 

 slender, .00015 in. broad, branched, crispate-flexuous, denticulate ; 

 spores abundant, globose, .00012 to .00016 in. in diameter. 



Wood of apple tree. Manor. September. 



Coniosporium Fairmani, Sacc. 

 Dried shell of Hubbard squash. Lyndonville. Fairman. 



Coniosporium culmigenum, Berk. 



Dead stems of motherwort, Leoniiriis cardiaca. Lyndonville. 

 Faiiynan. 



The spores in these specimens are smaller than in the type. The 

 specimens are labeled var. minor. 



Coniosporium. Polytrichi, n.sp. 



Heaps of spores minute, .003 to .004 in. broad, closely gregarious, 

 superficial, black; spores globose, granulose, black, .000(55 to 0008^ in. 

 in diameter. 



Capsules of moss, Polylrichum juniperinum. Sevey. July. 



Torula convoluta, ffarz. 

 Decaying tubers of potato, Solanum tuherosuni. Menands. April. 



Echinobotryum atrum, Cd. 

 Decaying tubers of potato. Menands. April. Flatbush. Znhrisl-if. 



Stachybotrys elongata, n. sp. 



(Plato 3. Figs. 10 to i;i.] 



Hyi^hte elongated, intricately branched, sparingly septate, minutely 



roughened, forming brown tomentose cushiou-shaped tufts one to 



three lines in diameter, the fertile branches terminated by a capitate 



cluster of spores borne upon more or less elongated sporophores, 



