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resembling Peridermium filamentosum, but lacking the 

 usual filaments which run up through the mass of spores in that 

 species. In P. cerebrum the upper part of the peridia usually 

 flakes of! in scales, which is quite unlike the way this specimen ap- 

 pears to behave, the peridia of which stand up prominently and 

 are beautifully fringed. The spores exceed in length the measure- 

 ments given for either of these species. 



Melanopsamma waghornei House, nom. nov. 



Melanopsamma borealisE. &E. Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1893. 

 p. 445. Sacc. Syll. XL : 305. Type collected in Newfoundland by Wag- 

 horn e. 



The host plant is not given, but the specimen in the herbarium 

 of the New York State Museum, a cotype, appears to be upon 

 Populus. The name proposed for it by Ellis and Everhart is ante- 

 dated by Melanopsamma borealis (Karst.) Sacc. Mich. 

 1: 347; Sacc. Syll. i: 578. 



Ramularia delphinii Dearness & House, n. sp. 

 Spots arid, circular to oblong, extending between the veins 3 to 5 

 mm, bounded by a raised dark brown border, paler above but other- 

 wise alike on both sides of the leaf : tufts of fertile hyphae promi- 

 nent, hypophyllous, 15-30 by 2^-3 fi, bearing continuous conidia 



15-33 by 4-5 V» 



On leaves of Delphinium scopulorum Gray. Col- 

 lected by Charles S. Sheldon, El Paso county, Colorado. August io r 

 1892. Type in herbarium of New York State Museum. 



