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lythri (Desm.) v. Holm., and the conidial stage of Pezizella lythri 

 (Desm.) Shear & Dodge. The pycnidial stage is given as Sclero- 

 tiopsis concava (Desm.) Shear & Dodge, and the ascogenous stage 

 has formerly been known as Pezizella oenotherae (C. & E.) Sacc. 



Harknessia foeda Saccardo & Dearnes-s 

 On partially dead foliage of Thuya occiden talis L. 

 Newcomb, Essex county, H. D. House, September 6. 



Haplosporella dulcamara Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Stromata externally black, scattered to crowded, erumpent, tuber- 

 cular to elongate, often in parallel lines, .5 to .75 mm in width, 

 seated in the cortex and bordered by the upturned cuticle, two to 

 twenty or more pyenidia in a stroma, usually whitish in cross-section. 

 Conidia oblong or many of them curved, nucleate, tardily brown, 

 17-19 x 6-7 fi, with walls 1 fi thick, on pedicels 5-20 fi long. 



On dead stems of S o I a 11 u m Dulcamara L. Sandlake, 

 Rensselaer county, Dr C. H. Peck (Type), year not indicated. 

 Orient, Long Island, Roy Latham, 1916. South Bay, Madison 

 county, H. D. House, September 19, 1919. 



Heterosporium gracile (Wallr.) Sacc. 

 On living and languishing leaves of cultivated Iris, Iris 

 germanica L. Munnsville, Madison county, H. D. House, 

 October 13. 



Hypoxylon fusco-purpureum (Schw.) Berkeley 



On dead limbs of black ash, Fraxinus nigra Marsh. 

 Caroga, Fulton county, Dr C. H. Peck, July (year of collection 

 not indicated). 



Leptostromella scirpina Peck 



On dead leaves of Scirpus fluviatilis (Torr.) Gray. 

 Albany, H. D. House, June 2, 1917 and August 26, 1919. On 

 dead leaves of Scirpus cyperinus (L.) Kunth, Pecks- 

 port, Madison county, H. D. House, May 18, 1918. 



Metasphaeria complanata (Tode) Sacc. 

 On dead stems of Chenopodium album L. Albany, 

 H. D. House, January 6, 1918. 



Microdiplodia populi Dearness & House 

 On dead twigs of Populus nigra var. i t a 1 i c a DuRoi. 

 Albany, H. D. House, May 13, 1917. Originally described from 

 Colorado material collected by Pringle. 



