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The color of this plant is almost the same as in S. ferruginea 

 but the spores are much larger, surpassing even those of 8. fusca. 

 The habitat is peculiar. 



Aeoyeia nutans Ft. 



Rotten wood. Richmondville. July. 



Teichia eenifomis Peck. 



Peridia gregarious or clustered, sessile, subglobose or reniform, 

 small, brown ; flocci few, short, sparingly branched ; spores glo- 

 bose, minutely echinulate, yellow-ochre, sometimes tinged with 

 green, .0005 in. in diameter.^ 



Dead bark of striped maple, Acer Pennsyl/vanicum. Portville. 

 September. 



LiCEA OYLINDEICA Ft. 



Rotten wood. "Worcester and Croghan. July and September. 



Peeich^na flavida Peck. 



Yellow throughout ; peridia crowded, clustered, sessile, varia- 

 ble in size and shape, shining ; flocci few, short, subnodulose, 

 obtuse, sparingly branched ; spores globose, echinulate, .00045 in. 

 in diameter. 



Mosses. Sandlake. August. 



The mature peridia are sometiines wrinkled at the top. The 

 bright golden yellow color renders the clusters conspicuous. 



Phoma beunneotinctum B. <& C. 



Inside of chestnut burrs. Buffalo. Clinton. 



Sphjeeonema Magnolije n. sp. 



Perithecia scattered, erumpent, black, with a long firm spine-like 

 ostiolum a line or more in length ; spores broadly elliptical or sub- 

 globose, often with a single nucleus, colored when mature, .0004 

 in. long. 



Dead branches of the cucumber tree. Magnolia acuminata. 

 Portville. September. 



It has almost exactly the size and appearance of S. spina, but 

 the spores constitute a distinguishing character. 



DiPLODIA VULGAEIS ZeV. 



Dead branches of locust trees. Buffalo. OUnton, 



