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Diaporthe obscura (Peck) Sacc. 



On dead stems of Geum strictum Ait. Eaton and Pecks- 

 port, Madison county. H. D. House, July 2 and 3, 191 5. The 

 characters accord very closely with the description by Peck (on 

 Rubus strigosus) and this collection constitutes a new host 

 for the species. 



Diaporthe (Chorostate) oxyspora (Peck) Sacc. 



(Sacc. Sylloge 1:627. 1882) 



Valsa oxyspora Peck. Rep. N. Y. State Mus.- 28, p. 75, pi. II, f. 26- 



29. 1876 

 Valsa ocularia C. & E. Grev. VI:n, pi. 95, f. 3. 1877 

 Diaporthe ocularia Sacc. Sylloge 1 :6i6. 1882 

 Diaporthe epimictaE. &E. N. Am. Pyr. 439. 1892 



The type of Valsa oxyspora was stated by Doctor Peck to 

 be on Quercus (collected at Sand Lake, August 1874). This was a 

 case of mistaken host identification which he later corrected but 

 without study of related species upon the host (Nemopan- 

 thus mucronata (L.) Trel.) or other hosts of the Holly 

 family. Meanwhile there has accumulated in the state herbarium 

 specimens of Diaporthe upon Ilex and Nemopanthus under the 

 additional names ofD. ocularia and D. epimicta. Pro- 

 fessor Dearness has made a careful study of the material here and 

 in his own herbarium and specimens named by Mr Ellis as D. 

 epimicta (and with particular care) , are identical with D . 

 oxyspora (Mechanicville on Ilex verticillata; South- 

 field on Ilex verticillata; Karner on Ilex verti- 

 cillata and Sand Lake on Nemopanthus mucronata 

 (type)). In all these collections the appendage of the spores seems 

 to disappear with age, and suggests that D. ocularia is also 

 the same, since other characters are very similar. Recently col- 

 lected by Roy Latham, Orient, N.. Y., on Ilex verticillata 

 (February 7, 19 15). 



Funalia rigida (Berk. & Mont.) 



Trametes rigida Bsrk. & Mont. Ann. S32. Nat. III. 11:240. 1849 

 Polystictus extensus Cooke. Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6:244. 1888 

 Poly stictus rigens Sacc. & Cub.; Sacc. Syll. 6:274. 1888 

 Coriolopsis rigida Murrill, North American Flora 9:75. 1907 



Sporophore annual, sessile, varying to resupinate, margin thin 

 and acute, 0-5 x 2-10 cm, usually about 1 cm thick or less, rather 

 fragile when dry, densely hispid or hirsute, yellowish brown or 



