128 I rNi;i ok m>\a scutia.- -macrav. 



E. aggrcfjafa Peck. Collected at Pictxju, 25th Aug., 1905, 

 Very common on the fertile aments of Alnus incana — as many 

 as two-thirds of them being aft'ected over considerable districts. 

 Spores were farming at ilatc of collcctiDii but were not mature. 

 Spores mature abnut May of the spring following. Alnun 

 viridis does not seem to be so susceptible to its attacks, CLM. 



llclvi'lln rri.spa Fr. Middleton, RRG. 



Gc'opi/.vls cavhoiKv'ia (A. ^: S. ) Sacc. Middleton, KRG. 



Peziza vesiruJosa IhiU. Aliddleton, RRG. 



Chlorosplciiiu))! (eriiginosioii Tul. Pictou county. Asco- 

 carps on rotting trunks of Fagiis fcn-uginea, ord Se})t., 1S)05. 

 Also on decaying Alnus incana. The fructification of this 

 species is said to be rather uncommon, (XM. Middleton, com- 

 monly occurring (hi rotten wood giving it a green color and mak- 

 ing it ]>hosphoresre,it, RR(i. 



E.foasciis rohiiisonianns (jriesenhageu. Deforming Jie 

 bracts in tlic pistillate anient-; of Almis incana. Very conuno'n, 

 WPF. 



Elaphonujccs ccrriniis (I'crs.) Sehrotcr. I'ictou, under 

 beech trees; parasitized by Gordyceps ophioglossoidcs, CLM. 

 Subterranea'n at the base of pine stumj), Pictou WPF. 



Claviceps parpiura Fr. Pictou, on barley, 2 Oct., 1905, 

 CLM. On Agroi/pnnn )-cpens. New Glasgow, WJ*F. 



Covchjceps (,j)li nj(/l()ss()if/cs I'dir. ( 'dllc'Cted at Picto\i, 2.'5r(l 

 vScpt., 11M)5, growing in loaf imiuld under beech trees in a sub- 

 terranean fungus probably a sjx'cies of E/aplioni i/ccs, CLM. 

 Parasitic on E. cerrinn.s. Pictou, WPF. 



II ijpdnujccs nndis (Albertim and Scliweinitz > . Middle- 

 ton, rare. The sanu; a.s //. la/eo-vireiis. Identified bv i*rof. 

 W. G. l\irlow, Cambridge, Mass., V. S. A. Tlie liosi in this 

 case was not determined with certainty, but it a])peared to bo 

 liygrophorus pudorimis Fr. The gill surface only was attacked, 

 becoming a dark grt^en. 



