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Gloeosporium falcatum Dearness & House, sp. nov. 

 Spots gray with a darker, ridged border and surrounded by an 

 indefinite, reddish, somewhat translucent margin, 3 to .7 mm broad. 

 Acervuli epiphyllous, concolorous, scattered, best observed with 

 reflected light under the microscope, 90-150 p. Spores falcate, 

 hyaline, acute at one or both ends, grumous and guttulate, 



24-32x8-12 fX. 



On living leaves of Benzoin aestivale • (L.) Nees. 

 Black lake near Catskill, N. Y. H. D. House, August 21, 191 5. 

 Type in the herbarium of the New York State Museum. 



The specimens are perhaps rather immature and might possibly 

 develop septa in the spores, in which case it would be a Marsonia 

 related to M. daphnes. 



Gloeosporium hydrophylli Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Spots slaty gray, subcircular when not marginal, mostly about 

 1 cm broad, concentrically ridged when seen through a lens, becom- 

 ing dry and brittle and breaking up. 



Acervuli innate, often found in sections w T here their positions 

 were not discovered with the lens. Spores hyaline, 5-9 x 2-2^2 ju, 

 nucleate at each end. 



On living leaves of Hydrophyllum canadense L. 

 Green lake near Kirkville, Onondaga county. H. D. House, 

 August 191 5. Type in the herbarium of the New York State 

 Museum. 



Ascochyta wisconsina Davis 



Near Cicero, Onondaga county, on living leaves of Sambucus 

 canadensis L. H. D. House, August 10, 191 5. The fungus 

 at first suggested a species of Gloeosporium but Professor Dear- 

 ness, who identifies the species, notes that spores were found with a 

 hyaline septum and that there is a thin pycnidial wall. The zona- 

 tion, colors and spore measurements agree with the description of 

 Ascochyta wisconsina, and differs from A . e b u 1 i 

 Fckl. described on Sambucus in Europe. 



Leptonia euchlora (Lasch) Quel. 

 (Sacc. Syll. 5713. 1887) 

 Pileus submembranaceous, campanulate becoming deeply de- 

 pressed in the center, yellowish green or brownish when young 

 becoming brownish with age, the surface radiately furrowed and 

 streaked with paler tints, minutely tawny fibrillose and roughened 



