26 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



NEW OR INTERESTING SPECIES OF FUNGI 



BY HOMER D. HOUSE 



Aecidium lini Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Aecia caulicolous and amphigenous but mostly hypophyllous, in 

 irregular groups or scattered, on discolored areas which are yellow- 

 ish at first and finally reddish brown, small, 200 fx in diameter; 

 peridium pale yellow, erose-truncate or lacerate and recurved, rising 

 about 50 /x over the ruptured cuticle, cells rhomboidal, wider dis- 

 ally, overlapping, prominently verrucose, variable in size, averaging 

 about 22 by 15 /*, wall 4-5 /x thick; aeciospores yellow, globose to 

 ellipsoid, 18 to 22 by 16 /a, wall minutely verrucose, hardly 2 /x thick. 



On stems and leaves of L i n u m virginianum. On herbar- 

 ium specimens collected by Dr Charles H. Peck at Amagansett, 

 Long Island, N. Y., July (the year not given). Type in the 

 herbarium of the New York State Museum. ' 



Ascochyta clematidina Thumen 

 North Greenbush, on living leaves of Clematis Virgin- 

 ia n a . H. D. House, no. 247, October 10, 1914. 



Asteroma ribicolum E. & E. 

 North Greenbush, on living leaves of R i b e s americana. 

 H. D. House, no. 248, October 10, 1914. This and the last men- 

 tioned species are both new to the State flora. 



Cercospora dubia (Riess) Wint. 

 Albany, on living leaves of C h e n o p o d i.u m a 1 b u m . H. D. 

 House, October 20, 1914. 



Cercospora teucrii E. & K. 

 Orient Point, Suffolk county, Long Island, on living loaves of 

 Teucrium canadense. Roy 1 -atham, August 14. 191 1. 



New to the State flora. 



Coniosporium lumulosum Sacc. 

 Tuppcr Lake, on dead wood of Pin us strobus. H. D, 

 House, August 26, 1913. Cotype. 



Cortinarius distans Peck 

 Oneida, Madison county. II. D. House, August [914. The type 

 locality is Greenbush, Rensselaer county, and the species has also 

 been collected in the counties of Albany, Essex, Suffolk and Warren, 



