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ExciPULA Equiseti n. sp. 



Perithecia minute, scattered, flattened, black, furnished with a 

 few long straight black bristles; spores straight, nearly cylindrical, 

 colorless, .00035-.0004: in. long. 



Dead stems of Equisetum. Buffalo. Clinto7i. 



DmEMASPORUM ACERINUM Peclc. 



Perithecia small, pezizoid, black, hispid with short straight scat- 

 tered black hairs ; spores unequally elliptical, .0003 in. long, the 

 . bristle at each end scarcely one-third the length of the spore. 



Dry maple wood. Buffalo. Clinton. April. 

 In D. JRohinice the spores are shorter and the bristles longer 

 than in this species. 



Festalozzia Pezizoides De Not. 



Bark of dead grape-vines. Fort Edward. Howe, North Green- 

 bush. October. 



Bactridium flavum Kze. 



Rotten wood. Buffalo. Clinton. Savannah and Croghan. 

 August and September. 



PucciNiA LoBELiiE Gerard. 



Sori minute scattered or confluent, tawny-brown, spores oblong- 

 elliptical, slightly constricted at the septum and easily separating 

 into two parts, pale, .0013-0016 in. long; pedicel short or obsolete. 



Lower surface of leaves of Lobelia syphilitica. Poughkeepsie. 

 Gerard. 

 The fragile spores are peculiar. 



Puccini A curtipes Howe. 



Leaves of Saxifraga Pennsylvanica. Yonkers. Howe. 



Uromtces pyriformis Cooke. 



9 Leaves of sweet flag, Acorus Calamus. New Baltimore. Howe, 

 Watkins and Montezuma marslies. September. 



Uromyces Sparganii O. d; P. 



Sori minute, oblong, crowded, blapk, spores pyriform or oblong- 

 pyriform, about .001 .in. long ; pedicel colored, shorter than or 

 equal to the spore in length. 



Both sides of leaves of Sparganium. Buffalo. Clinton. Mon- 

 tezuma marshes. September. New Baltimore. Howe. 



