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herbarium of the New York State Museum. Also collected on same 

 host at Sylvan Beach, Oneida county, May 13, 191 5. 



Comparison of this collection with that made by Doctor Peck 

 in 1877 on Viburnum lentago (31st Rep't, p. 50. 1879 as 

 Massaria gigaspora Fckl.) shows them to be the same. 

 The herbarium name of the specimens upon which this report was 

 made was later changed by Doctor Peck to M assaria corni 

 (Fr. & Mont.), which also inhabits Viburnum but its sporidia are 

 brown and in globose-depressed perithecia. They differ from M . 

 gigaspora Fckl. which is said to bear eight spores, four in an 

 upper and four in a lower division of the ascus, and to have para- 

 physes shorter than the asci. 



Microdiplodia lophiostomoides Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Pycnidia thinly scattered, when well developed rising through 

 the closely investing elongate clefts in the bark, and strongly 

 resembling a Lophiostoma, 1 x .25 mm. 



Conidia brown, innumerable, uni-septate, guttate in each cell, 

 oblong-elliptic, sometimes constricted, 11-13 x 5-7 /*, mostly about 

 12 fi long, on basidia often half their length. 



On dead twigs of Liriodendron tulipifera L. 

 Oneida, Madison county, N. Y. H. D. House, May 15, 191 5. Type 

 in the herbarium of the New York State Museum. 



With one or two out of several sections there was found a 

 Leptosphaeria with very minute perithecia, asci 40-45 x 8 /x, amber 

 sporidia 15 x 4 p, 3-septate, second cell largest. This might be 

 supposed to be L. stictoides only that this species is said to 

 have 5-septate sporidia. 



Pestalozzia flagellifera E. & E. 



On dead twigs of Comptonia peregrina (L.) Coulter. 

 Near Albany, N. Y. H. D. House, July 19, 1915. 



Phoma florida Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Pycnidia minute, .1 mm densely gregarious, subcuticular, causing 

 ashen spots or stripes on the smooth, pale-brown twigs. Conidia 

 sessile or nearly so, hyaline, 9x3 p, rounded at the ends, mostly 

 narrowed at one end. 



On dead twigs of Corn u s florida L. Yonkers, N. Y. 

 H. D. House, May 8, 191 5. 



