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often tliey are straight and erect. In color they are often red- 

 dish-brown or chestnut. I have never seen any fruit on an 

 affected branch. 



-fficidium Lupini n. qy. 



Spots numerous, small, orbicular, at first yellowish-green, 

 becoming purplish-brown with age; spermogones epiphyllous, 

 central ; peridia hy pophyllous, crowded, short ; spores globose, ver- 

 ruculose, orange-yellow, .001 to .0016 in. broad. 



Living leaves of common lupine, Lupinus jperenni-s. Karner. 

 June. 



Uredo Chiniaphilae 7i. sj). 



Spots none ; sori chiefly hypophyllous, scattered or crowded, a 

 long time covered by the epidermis, ^^ellow or pale-orange ; spores 

 narrowly ovate oblong or subelliptical, .001 to .0012 in. long, 

 .0005 to .0007 broad. 



Living leaves and flowers of spotted wintergreen, Chi^napMIa 

 maculata. Amagansett. July. 



The fungus seems to kill the leaves it attacks. 



Cylindrium elongatum I^07i. 

 Fallen leaves of "Chestnut. Shokan. September. 



Cylindrium griseuni Bon. 



Fallen leaves of chestnut-oak, Quercus Prinus. Shokan. Sep- 

 tember. Much like the preceding species, but distinguished by 

 its i^rav color. 



VerticilliuiTL sphaerophilum n. sp. 



HyphiB minutely and stellately tufted, white, sparingly 

 branched ; ])ranches one to three at a node, rather long, gradu- 

 ally tapering upward; spores elliptical, .0003 in. long, .00015 

 broad. 



On Ilypoxylon coccineum. Shokan. September. 



The Yerticillium a]>pears to develop from the ostiola of its host. 



Periconia tenuissima n. sp. 



Effused, forming a thin indefinite [)urplish-brown downy 

 stratum on tlie matrix ; fertile hyphas erect, slender, simple, 

 scarcely septate, .011 to .014 in. long, .00015 thick ; spores aggre- 

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