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Phoma ailanthi Saccardo. 



On dead shoots of Ailanthus glandulosus Desf. 

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

 June 10, 1915. 



Phoma imperialis Sacc. & Roum. 



(Phoma paulowniae Sacc. not Thiim.) 



On twigs of Paulownia tomentosa (Thunb.) Baill. 

 Yonkers, N. Y. H. D. House, May 8, 1915. 



The typical species inhabits petioles of Paulownia imperi- 

 alis in France. The description in the Sylloge is rather meager to 

 establish positively the identity of the Yonkers material, but for 

 the nonessential fact that the former was on petioles while ours 

 inhabits twigs, there is no difference so far as the description of the 

 type goes. The following description is drawn from the Yonkers 

 material. 



Pycnidia immersed in the thin bark, mostly elliptic, 1 x .25-3 mm, 

 flat, dark brown or black and showing through the epidermis which 

 is pierced by the short conic stomata; conidia abundant, hyaline, 

 somewhat acutely elliptic, nucleate, 6-9 x 3 \x on basidia of about 

 their own length. 



Phoma paulowniae Thiim. is quite distinct. 



Phoma linariae Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Pycnidia dark brown, very numerous, flat to subglobose or 

 depressed around the small central stomata which pierce the cuticle, 

 150-200 jx in diameter; conidia numerous, hyaline, oblong to some- 

 what curved, 2-3 x 1 //,. 



On dead stems of Linaria vulgaris Mill. Albany, N. Y. 

 H. D. House, May 23, 191 5. 



Phoma longipes B. & C. 



Orient Point, Long Island. On Moms alba L. Roy Latham, 

 May 1, 191 1. Reported as Phoma moricola Sacc. by Burn- 

 ham and Latham in Torreya 14:210. 1914. 



Phoma pectinata Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Pycnidia strictly hypophyllous, flat-globose to conic-globose, 

 black, minutely perforate, stellately or cleftwise rupturing the raised 

 cuticle, disposed in linear ranks, a few to about 20 on each side of 

 the midvein, .25-35 mm - i 



