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Didymella asterinoides (E. & E.) Rehm 

 Dead stems of wild teasel, Dipsacus sylvestris 

 Huds. Lyndonville. May. C. E. Fairman. This is Sphae- 

 rella asterinoides E. & E. 



Dothidea baccharidis Cke. 

 Dead branches of groundsel bush, Baccharis h a 1 i m i - 

 folia L. Orient Point. April. R. Latham. 



Escholtzia californica Cham. 



Cobbs Hill reservoir. Rochester. September. This is com- 

 monly called California poppy. It is abundant on the steep 

 banks of the reservoir and is apparently well and permanently 

 established. 



Flammula graveolens Pk. 



Forbes Manor grounds in old sawdust. Rensselaer. November. 

 S. H. Burnham. 



Helicopsis punctata n. sp. 



Cespitose; tufts gregarious, minute, .25-. 5 mm broad, brown; 

 hyphae very short or obsolete, irregular, slender, hyaline ; spores 

 convolute, forming a spiral, 6-8-septate, usually with a nucleus 

 in each cell, colored, persistent, 4-5 fx broad. 



Inside of bark scales of some species of Prunus. April. Lyn- 

 donville. C. E. Fairman. 



Caespites gregarii, minuti, .25-5 mm lati, brunnei ; hyphae 

 brevissimae vel obsoletae, irregulares, graciles, hyalinae ; sporae 

 convolutae, spiram 6-8-septatem, 4-5 /x latam, coloratam, persis- 

 tentem, cellis uninucleatis, formantes. 



Heliomyces pruinosipes n. sp. 



Pileus tremelloid, thin, submembranaceous, broadly convex 

 or depressed by the upcurving of the margin, glabrous, hygro- 

 phanous, bright orange red when moist, reddish brown when 

 dry, odor strong, disagreeable ; lamellae thin, narrow, close, 

 adnate, pallid; stems slender, hollow, dark reddish brown, usu- 

 ally pruinose or slightly pubescent above, whitish tomentose 

 at the base and there fasciculately united ; spores not seen. 



Pileus 1-2 cm broad; stem 2-3 cm long, 1.2-2.5 mm thick. 



Around old stumps of coniferous trees. Vaughns. August 

 and September. S. H. Burnham. On bark. Ithaca. Septem- 

 ber. G. F. Atkinson. 



