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extreme viscidity of the pileus and stem, especially when young, 

 when it is so viscid that it is almost impossible to hold. 



Hysterium staphylina (Pk.) Dearness & House 



Perithecia thickly scattered, erumpent through the epidermis, 

 shining, black, round, 100-270 /x in diameter to elongate, straight or 

 bent, .25-2 mm x .15-3 mm, rather widely cleft. 



Asci covered by a thin parenchymatous layer, fusoid-clavate, 

 mostly 75 X 15 /x, some shorter and stouter, others much longer and 

 narrower, paraphyses obscure. 



Sporidia biseriate to crowded and overlapping, hyaline, 3-7 sep- 

 tate, finally brown and 5-8 septate, second, third or fourth cell from 

 the top enlarged, usually slightly constricted below the lower half ; 

 the hyaline spores 18-30x5-6 /i, the longest brown spore seen 

 measured 45 x 6 /x. 



On dead twigs and branches of Staphylea trifoliata 

 L. Helderberg mountains, N. Y. C. H. Peck, May. This was 

 published as Sphaeria staphylina Peck ( = M e t a - 

 sphaeria staphylina Sacc.) in the 26th Report of the 

 State Botanist, page 86, and imperfectly described. This lacks the 

 black crust of Hysterium insidens Schw. but the micro- 

 scopic characters are similar. 



This redescription of Doctor Peck's type material of Sphaeria 

 staphylina was prompted by the discovery in Ulster county of 

 a good Metasphaeria upon the same host and which did not match 

 his material, the name of which had been transferred to Meta- 

 sphaeria by Saccardo. 



Leptostromella hysterioides (Fr.) Sacc. 

 On dead stems of Helianthus decapetalus L. Ken- 

 wood swamp, Oneida, Madison county. H. D. House, May 15, 

 1915. Sporules curved, 20-21x2-2^/2 fi. 



Macrosporium saponariae Peck 

 Oneida, IMadison county, on Saponaria officinalis 

 Linn. H. D. House, June 20, 191 5. 



Morchella semilibera DC. 



Kenwood swamp, near Oneida, Madison county. H. D. House, 

 May 15, 1915. Also collected there in May 1885 ^7 ^i" Henry A. 

 Warne, who also collected the same species near Madison, Madison 



