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On dead twigs of C e a n o t h u s a m e r i c a n ii s Linn. 

 Albany. H. D. House, January to April 191 5. Type in the her- 

 barium of the New York State T\Iuseum. Resembling D i d y - 

 mosphaeria ceanothi Cooke & Harkness of California, 



but the spores much smaller. 



Microdiplodia ceanothi Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Acervuli scattered, raising the cuticle which is blackened into 

 small pustules, Yz to ^A mm broad ; spores smoky brown, suboblong, 

 9-1 1 by 4-5 /x. 



On dead twigs of C e a n o t h u s a m e r i c a n u s Linn. 

 Albany. H. D. House, March 191 5. Type in the herbarium of the 

 New York State Museum. Probably a stage of D i d y m o s - 

 phaeria housei Dearness, which was found upon the same 

 twigs. 



Diplodia microspora B. & C 



On Viburnum dentatum Linn. Albany, N. Y. Col- 

 lected by H. D. House, May 1915. 



There is nothing in the meager description of Diplodia 

 microspora to exclude our material except that the conidia of 

 the latter are rather uniformly 9 x 3-3 >^ /a instead of 6-7 x 3 /x as 

 given in the description by Saccardo. The type of D . micro- 

 spora was collected by Curtis on V i b u r n u m o p u 1 i - 

 folium (V. Opulus). 



Eichleriella leveilliana (B. & C.) Burt 

 (Stereum leveillianum B. & C.) 

 On dead branches and twigs of hemlock, Tsuga canaden- 

 sis (L.) Carr. Vaughns, Washington county. S. H. Burnham, 

 February 20, 1914. (Determinedly E. A. Burt.) 



Flammula penetrans Fr. 

 On decayed pine logs, Sylvan Beach, Oneida county. H. D. 

 House, October 12, 1915. 



Gloeosporium alnicola Dearness & House, sp. n. 



Spots subcircular, reddish brown with a diffused darker border, 

 I cm in diameter; acervuli amphigenous, concolorous or usually 

 darker, depressed, 50-150 ,u, mostly about 70 /x; conidia continuous, 

 elliptic-oblong, 9-12 by 2.75-3 f^- 



On living leaves of Alnus rugosa (DuRoi) K. Koch. 

 Eastport, Long Island. Dr C H. Peck, iVugust. 



