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Conidia hyaline, ovoid to subglobose, 12-14 x 9-10 ^, on narrow 

 sporophores, sometimes of their own length or longer. 



On leaves of Abies pectin ata on limbs which have died 

 without casting their leaves. Oneida, Madison county, N. Y. 

 H. D. House, May 14, 191 5. Type in the herbarium of the New 

 York State Museum. 



Phoma platanicola Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Pycnidia rather sparsely scattered, raising the ruptured cuticle, 

 pale, flat, circular, pseudo-locellate, .3-5 mm. Conidia hyaline, non- 

 guttulate, elliptic to subfusoid, 9-12 x 4-6 /x, on sporophores of the 

 same length as the conidia, some of which are branched. 



On dead twigs of Platanus occidentalis L. Sylvan 

 Beach, Oneida county. H. D. House, June 21, 19 15. Type in the 

 herbarium of the New York State Museum. This comes near 

 Phoma almeidae Sacc. & Trav., the conidia and sporophores 

 of which are narrower and of different shape. 



Phyllosticta ambrosioides Thiim. 



On living leaves of Chenopodium ambrosioides L. 

 Syracuse, N. Y. H. D. House, August 191 5. 



Phyllosticta staphyleae Dearness 



On " blighted " capsules of Staph ylea t r i f o 1 i a t a L. 

 near Black lake, north of Leeds, Greene county. H. D. House, 

 August 21, 1915. 



Phyllosticta myricae Cooke 



On living and languishing leaves of Myrica Caroline n- 

 s i s Mill. Sand's point, Long Island. H. D. House, September 

 8, 1915. 



Phyllosticta steironematis Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Spots reddish, scattered, circular, 2-3 mm broad or confluent and 

 extending over half or the whole of the leaf. Pycnidia amphigen- 

 ous, black, 75-150 /*, not deeply seated. Conidia hyaline, globose, 

 grumous, 5-6 /jl. 



On living leaves of Steironema ciliatum (L.) Raf. 

 North Greenbush, N. Y. H. D. House, July 20, 191 5. Type in 

 the herbarium of the New York State Museum. The spores of this 

 species are very distinct from those of either P. dodecathei 

 Trelease or P. lysimachiae Allesch. 



