108 TWENTY-SEVENTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. 



The long spores are narrowed toward one end, and have 

 a shape very similar to that of the asci that contain them. 

 I have never found it growing on the blade of the leaf. 



Tympanis Fraxini Scliw. 



Dead branches of ash trees. Forestburgh. September. 



Hysterium tumida Duby. 



Fallen leaves of beech trees. Croghan. September. 



Hysterium xylomoides Chev. 



Fallen maple leaves. Croghan. September. 



Hysterium Rhododendri Schw. 



Leaves of Rhododendron maximum. Forestburgh. Sept. 



Rhytisma monogramma B. & C. 



Living leaves of grape vines. Port Jervis. September. 



I have seen no description of this species, and depend 

 upon a comparison of our plant with authenticated speci 

 mens for its identification. 



TORRUBIA ENTOMORRHIZA Ft. 



Dead larvse imbedded in decaying wood or leaves in 

 woods. Adirondack Mts. August 

 The head in our specimens is yellow when fresh. 



Epichloe Hypoxylon n. sp. 



Convex or pulvinate, subconfluent, blackish externally, 

 white within, seated on a whitish or gray subiculum ; ostiola 

 prominent ; asci very long, linear ; spores elongated, fili- 

 form, multinucleate, colorless. 



Living stems of grass. Sandlake. July. 

 In shape and color this plant is suggestive of the genus 

 Hypoxylon, but its habitat and spores point to Epichloe. 



Hypomyces aurantius Tul. 



Decaying fungi. Buffalo. Clinton. 



NECTRIA EPISPHiERIA Ft. 



On Diatrype stigma and allied fungi. Forestburgh. 



Sept. 



DOTHTDEA TETRASPORA Fr. 



Dead stems of Iva frutescens. Yonkers. Howe. 



