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middle with i or 2 minute glandular teeth, reflexed after anthesis . 

 stamens 5-10 ; anthers pink ; styles 3 or 4. Fruit on slender droop- 

 ing pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, short-oblong to obovate, 

 crimson, slightly pruinose, marked by dark dots, about i cm in 

 diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a wide shallow cavity pointed 

 in the bottom and spreading and appressed persistent lobes ; flesh 

 thin, dry and hard, green tinged with red ; nutlets 2-4, broad and 

 rounded at the apex, acute at the base, rounded and only slightly- 

 ridged on the back, 5.5-6 mm long and 3-3.5 mm wide. 



A shrub 2-3 m high, with small stems covered with dark gray 

 bark and numerous ascending and spreading branches, and slender 

 slightly zigzag branchlets dark orange green and marked by pale 

 lenticels when they first appear, becoming bright chestnut brown 

 and lustrous in their first season and dark reddish brown the fol- 

 lowing year, and armed with numerous slender straight chestnut 

 brown spines 3.5-6 cm long. 



Hillsides near Painted Post, Steuben co., G. D. Cornell ( ^ 119 

 type), September 22, 1907, May 26, 1908; C. H. Peck, June 2 

 and September 21, 1909; G. D. Cornell (# 119 A with 6-10 

 stamens and larger short-oblong fruit a little if at all narrowed 

 at the base), Painted Post. September 22, 1907, May 28, 1908. 



Crepis setosa Hall. f. 

 Orient Point. September. R. Latham. 



Cryptosporium macrospermum n. sp. 



Heaps scattered, at first covered by the epidermis, then erumpent 

 through orbicular or elliptic apertures, about i mil broad, black, 

 sometimes capped by a whitish or greenish white globule of spores, 

 the spore mass enlarged and softened when moist ; spores slender, 

 fusiform, falcate or rarely sigmoid, generally subulate at one end, 

 acute or subacute at the other, hyaline and often 2-6 nucleate, 

 60-80 //. long, 5-6 // broad. 



Dead bark of balsam fir, Abies balsa mea (L.) Mill. 

 Adirondack mountains, Franklin co. May. G. G. Atwood and 

 P. S])aulding. 



11ic fungus has so far developed only where the bark is dead and 

 it is therefore uncertain that it causes the death of the bark and 

 the wood l)encath. 



Accrvuli sparsi, primus epidermide tecti, deinde per aperturas 

 orbiculares ellipticasve erunipcntes, 1 mm lati. nigri. ali([uando 



