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distinct darker colored umbo in the center which becomes very 

 prominent and acute in drying. The lamellae are somewhat lutescent 

 when young becoming brownish in older specimens. 



Common in sunny sphagnum places in- open woods near Oneida. 

 H. D. House, August 19 14. New to America. 



Leptosphaeria houseana Sacc. 



Albany, on dead stems of T h a 1 i c t r u m d i o i c u m . H. D. 

 House, April 19 14. Cotype. 



^Macrophoma celtidicola Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Pycnidia depressed-globose, carbonous, scattered, seated on the 

 cortex, erumpent through the cuticle, iSo fx broad; spores hyaline, 

 1-3 nucleate and grumous, obovate to oblong, rounded at the ends, 

 20-33 by 9-15 M, on basidia of variable length, mostly 3-4 fi in 

 thickness. 



On dead twigs of Celtis occi den talis. Northampton, 

 Fulton county. H. D. House, no. 14.15a, May 27, 1914. Type 

 in the herbarium of the New York State Museum. 



Marasmius elongatipes Peck 

 Oneida, Madison county. H. D. House, August 1914. 



Micropeltis pitya Sacc. 



Tupper Lake, on dead leaves of Abies b a 1 s a m e a . H. D. 

 House, August 26, 1913. Cotype. 



Peronospora effusa (Grev.) Rabenh. 



Albany, on living leaves of C h e n o p o d i u m album. H. D. 

 House, October 20, 1914. 



Phoma houseana Sacc. 

 Featherstone lake, Schenectady county, on dead stems of V a c - 

 cinium corymb osum. H. D. House, July 27, 1913. Cotype. 



Phomopsis viticola Sacc. 



Albany, on dead stems of V i t i s aestivalis. H. D. House, 

 March 19 14. New to the State flora. 



Phomopsis daturae (R. & F.) Sacc. 

 Albany, on dead steams of Datura stramonium. H. D. 

 House, July 1913. New to the State flora. 



