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Diaporthe obscura Peck 



On dead stems of Geum s t r i c t u m Ait. Pecksport, Madi- 

 son county. H. D. House, July 2, 191 5. 



Diatrype woolworthi (Peck) Sacc. 



(Valsa woolworthi Peck) 



The original description states that the host is oak or hickory, 

 and in order to settle definitely the identification of the host a care- 

 ful examination made of the wood structure of the type specimens 

 shows it to be H i c o r i a glabra. 



Diplodia cercidis E. & E. 



On dead twigs of Cercis canadensis L. (cultv.) near 

 Oneida, Madison county. H. D. House, May 15, 191 5. Also col- 

 lected on Cercis j aponica at Lyndonville, Orleans county, 

 by Dr C. E. Fairman (no. 929), July 20, 1909. 



Ectostroma liriodendri (Kuntze) Fr. 



A sterile fungus producing Rhytisma-like spots and blotches on 

 fallen leaves of Liriodendron tulipifera L. Valley 

 Mills, Madison county. H. D. House, July 21, 191 3. Also collected 

 at Kirkville, Onondaga county, by Prof. L. M. Underwood, Sep- 

 tember 1888. 



Eutypella glandulosa Cooke 



On dead branches of Ailanthus glandulosa Desf . 

 Yonkers. H. D. House, May 8, 1915. Albany, H. D. House, June 

 10, 1915. 



Eutypella ludibunda Sacc. 



On dead branches of Viburnum lantana Linn. Culti- 

 vated in Washington Park, Albany, N. Y. Collected by H. D. 

 House, March 5, 191 5. 



The stromata are thickly and evenly scattered along the dead 

 branches of the host, their black disks but slightly raised above the 

 cuticle; perithecia 4-10, immersed in a whitish or wood-colored 

 portion of the cortex and sometimes impressing the wood after the 

 manner of some species of Diaporthe; the pale matrix bears a black 

 covering which becomes continuous as a blackened layer between 

 the cortex and the wood ; the perithecia are pale and not of uniform 

 depth in the stroma ; stromata short-erumpent, black, some of them 

 very obscurely stellate-cleft; asci sessile, 33-45x6-7 /x; sporidia 



