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Leontodon nudicaulis (L.) Banks 

 Orient Point, Suffolk co. September. R. Latham. 



Leskea gracilescens Hedw. 

 Trunks of trees. Kingston. July. Mrs M. E. Williams. 



Ligusticum scoticum L. 



Orient Point. September. R. Latham. 



Lophiotrema hysterioides E. & E. 



Decorticated twigs and branches lying on the ground in woods. 

 Lyndonville. September. C. E. Fairman. 



Lophiotrema littorale Speg. 

 Dead branches of willow. Lyndonville. May. C. E. Fairman. 



Marasmius alienus n. sp. 



Pileus thin, tough, convex, subpruinose, dry, pallid or pale buff, 

 with a thin straight margin; lamellae subarcuate, distant, slightly 

 decurrent, creamy yellow, becoming brownish in drying; stem slen- 

 der, firm, hollow, subpruinose, pallid; spores oblong or narrowly 

 elliptic, 8-10 X 4-5 !J: 



Pileus 6-12 mm broad; stem 2.5-5 cm long, .5-1 mm thick. 



Mossy prostrate trunks of trees in woods. Fine, St Lawrence co. 

 August. 



This species belongs to section 3, subsection 2, of Professor Mor- 

 gan's Synopsis of North American Species of Marasrdius. 



Pileus tenuis, lentus, convexus, subpruinosus, siccus, pallidus vel 

 subluteolus, margine tenue, recto; lamellae subarcuatae, distantes, 

 leviter decurrentes, cremeae, in siccitate brunnescentes ; stipes 

 gracilis, firmus, fistulosus, subpruinosus, pallidus ; sporae oblongae 

 vel anguste ellipsoideae, 8-10 x 4-5 />-. 



Melanopsamma confertissima (Plowr.) Sacc. 



Dead branches of spice bush. Benzoin aestivale (L.) 

 Nees. Lyndonville. C. E. Fairman. 



Microcera coccophila Desm. 

 Parasitic on San Jose scale infesting living branches of apple 

 trees. Hicksville, Nassau co. October. F. C. Stewart. A wel- 

 come enemy to a very unwelcome foe to fruit trees and shrubs. 



