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end, colorless, sometimes multinucleate, .0016 to .0025 in. long, oozing 

 out and forming a whitish globule 



Dead stems of Viburnum lantanoides. Adirondack mountains. June. 



Gelatinosporium fulvum, n. sp. 



Perithecia casspitose, crowded, erumpent, externally pulverulent, 

 pale-tawny, opening at the apex when moist and revealing the white 

 spore-mass within ; spores elongated, curved, gradually tapering toward 

 each end, colorless, .003 in. long. 



Dead branches of birch, Betula lutea. Caroga. July. 



This is the third species of this genus that has its habitat on birch. 



Coniothyrium valsoideum, n. sp. 



Perithecia caespitose, crowded, erumpent, surrounded by the laciniae 

 of the ruptured epidermis, subglobose or angular from mutual pressure, jt* 



black ; spores numerous; subglobose or ovate, colored, .0002 to .00025 

 in. long, nearly as broad. 



Dead branches of alder. West Albany. Apr. 



Septoria Ribis, Desm. 



Living leaves of fetid currant, Riles prostration. Adirondack 

 mountains. June. 



Septoria alnicola, Che. 



Living leaves of alder, Alnus incana. Caroga. July. 



Septoria Lysimachiae, West. 

 Living leaves of Lysimachia ciliata. Osceola. Aug. 



Septoria Dalibardse, n. sp. 



Spots small, whitish or cinereous, with a reddish-brown margin, peri- 

 thecia minute, epiphyllous, few, black ; spores filiform, nearly straight, 

 .0015 to .002 in. long. 



Living leaves of Dalibarda repens. Caroga. July. 



This species closely resembles S. Waldsteinice, but the spores are 

 much longer than in that species. 



Septoria Dentariae, n. sp. 



Spots large, suboibicular, indefinite, greenish, perithecia minute, nu- 

 merous, slightly prominent, epiphyllous, black ; spores filiform, nearly 

 straight, .0008 to .0012 in. long, oozing out in yellowish or amber- 

 colored tendrils or masses. 



Living or languishing leaves of pepper-root, Dentaria diphylla. 

 Adirondack mountains. June. 



Septoria punicei, n. sp. 



. Spots two to four lines broad, indefinite, blackish-brown above, brown 

 or reddish-brown below, perithecia hypophyllous ; spores very long, 

 flexuous, filiform, white in the mass, .004 to -0045 m ' l° n g' 



Living leaves of Aster puniceus. Caroga. July. 



The species is well marked by its very long and very white spores. 

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