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able to зау. From the plate of Atkinson, together with his descrip- 
tion including the account of the spores, I am inclined to believe that 
his plant is the same as that found in Vermont. So much can be 
said with certainty that specimens and photograph received last 
September from Ohio from Mr. C. G. Lloyd show that the species 
extends from Vermont and Pennsylvania to Ohio. 
In short, Corticium tremellinum В. & Rav. is not a Corticium but 
a tremelline. C. tremellinum B. & Rav., var. reticulatum is a distinct 
species, which should bear the name Tremella reticulata (Berk.) Farlow, 
and to it should be referred the species above mentioned. Although 
for reasons given I do not now think that T. reticulata and Т. juci- 
formis are identical, it remains for those who have an opportunity 
of seeing both the South American and our Northern fungus in fresh 
condition to furnish information to settle their identity beyond all 
doubt. If they are identical, then the name T. fuciformis has priority. 
SYNCHYTRIUM PLURIANNULATUM (В. & C.) Farlow. In the Botani- 
cal Gazette, 10, 243, March, 1885, it was shown that Uromyces plurian- 
nulatus В. & C., Grevillea, 3, 57, 1874, does not belong to the Ur di- 
naceae but to the C hytridiaceae, and it was referred by me to the genus. 
Synchytrium with the statement that “the peculiarity of the ripe 
resting spores shows that the development must be studied before 
the exact position of the fungus can be decided." The hosts given 
were Sanicula marilandica and S. Menziesü, with a range from 
Illinois and Alabama to California. At that time I had been able to 
examine only dried specimens. Since then I have found the parasite 
on S. marilandica at Holderness, N. H., but in very small quantity, 
two leaves only being infected. I did not, when collecting it, recognize 
that the fungus was the same as that which I had studied from dried 
material for, when fresh, the appearance is more that of a gall of 
animal origin than of a Synchytrium. An examination of fresh 
material enabled me to see a character not noticed in the dried. The 
resting spores, or more properly sporangia, were not free in the en- 
larged epidermal cells in which they were parasitic but were attached 
at the centre of the flattened side to a hypha similar to that of Uro- 
phlyctis Kriegeriana, figured by Magnus in Annals of Botany, 11, PI. 
7,1897. It was not possible for me to study the development of the 
fungus owing to the very scanty material and absence of proper equip- 
ment at the time it was collected, but it is evident that it must be 
