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Sporidia strictly uniseriate or overlapping, brown, 3-septate, 

 12-15 X4-5 ii. 



On dead twigs and branches of Myrica gale L. Grassy 

 pond, Adirondack mountains. C. H. Peck (date of collection 

 unknown). Type in the herbarium of the New York State Museum. 

 The specimens also contain Diaporthe phomaspora 

 (C. & E.) Sacc. and Trichopeziza myricae (Peck) Sacc. 



Leptothryium dearnessii Kabat & Bubak 

 On dead brown areas of living, languishing, or dead leaves of 

 Erigeron philadelphicus L. Albany. H. D. House, 

 November 1, 19 16. Doctor Peck has also collected this upon 

 Erigeron a n n u u s, reported asL. punctiforme B . & C. 

 He also noted that it differed from L. punctiforme in being 

 upon both sides of the leaf and in other minor particulars. 



Macrophoma ceanothi Dearness & House, nom. nov. (Macro- 

 phoma peckiana D. & H. Bui. N. Y. State Museum 179:31. 191 5. 

 Not Berl. & Vogl.) 



On dead stems of Ceanothus americanusL., North 

 Greenbush (Peck, type). Albany (House). 



Massarinula brassicae Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Perithecia densely gregarious, carbonaceous, rugulose, papillate 

 globose-conic, erumpent-superficial, 200-300 /jl. Asci clavate, wal 

 3 ju thick, 4 or 8, mostly 8-spored, 70 to 120 /x, mostly about 

 90 x 12-15 M- Sporidia chiefly biseriate, hyaline, fusoid, subarcuate, 

 in sheath 2 /u thick, i-septate, the upper cell rather abruptly 

 thickened at the septum, sometimes each cell seems obscurely 

 transversely divided, the sheath extended at the end, giving some 

 sporidia the appearance of being obtusely appendiculate. 



On dead stems of Brussels sprouts (Brassica oleracea L. 

 var. gemmifera Hart.) Orient, N. Y. Roy Latham, September 

 191 5. Type in the herbarium of the New York State Museum. 



Metasphaeria anthelmintica (Cke.) Dearness, comb. nov. 

 (Sphaeria anthelmintica Cke. ; Leptosphaeria Sacc.) 

 On dead stems of Chenopodium album L. Albany. 

 H. D. House, November 7, 19 16. Cooke placed this in Heptameria, 

 a fact that throws doubt on Saccardo's location of it in Leptosphaeria. 

 The spores are so dilutely colored that Metasphaeria is the better 

 location for it as suggested by Professor Dearness. Most of the 

 spores singly seem quite hyaline. 



