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but scarcely scjuamulose, the margin irregular, 1-4 cm broad ; flesh 

 very thin and pallid; stipe slender, 2-4 cm long, 2.5-5 ^^^""^ thick, 

 hollow, grass green but the flesh pallid, surface becoming some- 

 what f uscus with age and slightly fibrillose ; lamellae adnate and 

 decurrent, rather distant, pallid or slightly yellowish when young, 

 soon becoming flesh-colored; spores pale rusty brown in mass, 

 angular, 9-13x5-9 M- 



Damp clay soil in deciduous thickets. Green lake near Kirkville, 

 Onondaga county. H. D. House, no. 14.16, June 6, 19 14. Orville, 

 Onondaga county. George E. ]\Iorris, August 13, 1910. 



Identification of this interesting species was suggested by Mr 

 ^lorris and further examination of the specimens and notes makes 

 the identification almost positive, and adds another species, hereto- 

 fore known only in Europe, to the fungus flora of America. 



The bright green stipe is so characteristic that the species can 

 scarcely be mistaken. The two localities mentioned are about eight 

 miles distant from each other. 



Leptosphaeria triglochinis Schrt. 

 On dead stems of T r i g 1 o c h i ri p a 1 u s t r e L. Castle 

 swamp, Oneida, ^ladison county. H. D. House, June 20, 1915. 



Leptosphaeria hydrophila Sacc. 

 Oneida, X. Y. on T y p h a a n g u s t i f o 1 i a L. July 19, 1913. 

 Determined by Saccardo. Originally described as found on 

 J u n c u s e f f u s u s in Italy and not previously collected in 

 America, nor upon this host. 



Macrophoma viburni Dearness c^ House, sp. nov. 



Pycnidia thickly scattered, nearly black, perforate, 125-270 fx in 

 diameter. Conidia hyaline, naviculate, 19-25 x 6 /x, on evident short 

 basidia. 



Associated with a Rhabdospora on dead twigs of Viburnum 

 opulus L. Catskill, N. Y. H. D. House, August 22, 1915. 

 Type in the herbarium of the Xew York State Museum. 



Metasphaeria staphyleae Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Perithecia scattered, raising the epidermis into flat, pale, per- 

 forated pustules, lenticular to subglobose, icSo-360 ix\ ostiola 

 cylindric, obtuse and short. 



Asci clavate-cvlindrical, often widest near the middle, 



