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interior of the peridium near its base in each of which a 

 «porangiole rests. The funiculus is short, but when moist it 

 can be stretched to a great length. This species may be dis- 

 tinguished from C. vernicosus by the less spreading mar- 

 gin of the open peridium and by its much larger spores. 



Craterium minimum B. & C. 



Dead sticks and leaves. West Albany. C. cylindricum 

 IMassee is a synonym. 



Craterium minutum (Leers) Fr. 

 On mosses. East Berne, Albany co. August. 



Didymium fairmani Sacc. 



On foliage of two leaved Solomon's seal, Unifolium 

 canadense. Ridge way, Orleans co. C. E. Fairman. 

 •Closely allied to D. melanospermum, from which it 

 differs in its rather smaller peridium and spores. The typical 

 form is sessile, but specimens sometimes occur with a short 

 slender stem. 



Physarella multiplicata Macb. in Utt. 



Spreading over ground and living plants. Menands, Albany 

 •co. June. The white Plasmodium spreads over anything in its 

 way and the mature fungus develops from it in 24 hours in 

 very warm weather. 



Empusa grylli Fresen. 



It attacks and kills grasshoppers. Surfaces on which the 



dead bodies of the grasshoppers rest become whitened by the 



pyriform conidia of the fungus shed from the bodies of the 



insects. 



Marsonia pyriformis (Riess) Sacc. 



Upper surface of leaves of silver poplar, Populus alba. 

 Penn Yan. September. F. C. Stewart. 



Septoria polygonina Thum. 



Living leaves of the fringed black bindweed, Polygonum 

 cilinode. Near Loon lake. July. In our specimens the 



