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CupS 1 to 2 lines broad, seated upon or developing from fine 

 white loosely branching webby strings of mycelium. 



Bark and mosses. Carrollton. September. 



The specific name has reference to the character of the mycelium, 

 by which the species may easily be recognized. 



Geaster limbatus Fr. 



Caldwell, Warren county. June. The specimens were old, but 

 appear to belong to this species. 



Geaster rufescens Pers. 

 Gouverneur, St. Lawrence county. Mrs. E, C. Anthony. 



Phyllosticta Ludwigiae n. sp. 



(Plate 4, figs. 22 and 23.) 



Spots small, orbicular, sometimes confluent, centrally pallid, dry, 

 surrounded by a brownish or purplish-red border ; perithecia few, 

 often single,' epiphyllous, ,004 in. broad, black ; spores elliptical or 

 oblong, binucleate, colorless, .0003 to .00035 in. long, .00016 broad. 



Living leaves of water purslane, Ludwigia jpalustris. Selkirk. 



July. 



Phoma sordida Sacc. 



Dead twigs of water beech, Garpinus Americana. Cemetery, 

 Albany county. May. 



Dothiorella Celtidis n. sp. 



Stroma small, depressed, suborbicular, seated on the inner bark, 

 erumpent; perithecia immersed in the stroma; spores oblong, 

 obovate or subfusiform, often binucleate or trinucleate, colorless, 

 .0008 to .001 in. long, .0003 to .00035 broad, sometimes oozing out in 

 a whitish mass. 



Dead branches of hackberry, CeJtis occidentaUs. Saugerties. May. 



Sphaeropsis EUisii Sacc. 



Dead corticated branches of tamarack, Larix Americana. Kasoag, 

 Oswego county. July. 



Var. Laricis. Perithecia larger, about .014 in. broad, often 

 arranged in rows and surrounded by the whitish ruptured epider- 

 mis; spores .0012 to .0018 in. long, .0006 to .0008 broad. 



Sphaeropsis rubicola G. i^ E. 

 Dead stems of blackberry, Buhus villosus. Menands. October. 



