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upon living branches of the hemlock at Elizabethtown, Essex 

 county, and further study of the species may prove it to be the 

 cause of considerable damage to living hemlocks. 



Gloeosporium coryli (Desm.) Sacc. 



Near Albany, on leaves of Corylus americana Walt. 

 H. D. House no. 14.136, September 12, 1914, and August 13, 191 5. 

 Hewitt's pond, Adirondacks. Doctor C. H. Peck, July. 



Gloeosporium divergens Peck 



(See figure 2) 

 The leaves of the white oak (Quercus alba) are fre- 

 quently disfigured by the attacks of this fungus and during the 

 season of 191 5 several serious outbreaks of this disease were noted 

 in various localities. Young trees, sprout leaves and particularly 

 seedlings in nurseries seem to suffer most severely but mature trees 

 are by no means immune. This is probably the same fungus as 

 described by Ellis and Everhart as Gloeosporium c a n a - 

 dense. 



Gloeosporium sassafras (Cooke) E. & K. 



(Phyllosticta sassafras Cooke) 

 On leaves of Sassafras variifolium (Salisb.) Kuntze. 



Merrick, Long Island. H. D. House, September 9, 191 5. 



Haplosporella peckii (Sacc.) House, nom. nov. 



(Sphaeropsis anomala Peck, 24th Ann. Rep't, N. Y. State Mus. 86, 1S72. Not 



S. anomala B. & C.) 



Sphaeropsis peckii Sacc. Syll. 3 1293. 1894. 



An odd species with the aspect of a Tympanis, the caespitose peri- 



thecia which are seated on the inner bark break through rather 



large transverse chinks in the bark ; ostiola papillate ; spores oblong, 



20-25 /* m length. On the bark of dead cherry limbs near Albany. 



(Prescott.) 



Hendersonia staphyleae E. & E. 



On dead twigs of Staphylea trifoliata L. Green 

 pond near Jamesville, Onondaga county. H. D. House, August 21, 

 191 5. The same species has been collected near Albany by Doctor 

 Peck. 



Hygrophorus fuligineus Frost 



In rich stony soil in a pine grove near North Bay, Oneida county. 

 H. D. House, October 12, 1915. Doctor Peck reports it only from 

 Albany county, in pine groves. The species is remarkable for the 



