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removed from Synchytrium and be placed in Urophlyctis. The name 
to be adopted is Urophlyctis pluriannulatus (B. & C.) Farlow. Its 
relation to U. Kriegeriana is very close and it may even be a question 
whether the species of Magnus, described in 1888, Sitzber. Ges. 
Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, p. 100, is not the same as the American 
species. The former grows in the epidermal cells of Carum Carui 
and the description of the galls formed as pearl-shaped with a de- 
pressed umbo at the apex applies well to those of U. pluriannulatus 
when seen in fresh condition and in general the microscopic characters 
of the galls and the sporangia are much the same in both species. 
The development of the American species, however, needs to be 
studied by some one living in the region where the fungus is less 
rare than in New England. 
Although rare in the Northeastern States it is common apparently 
in the Central States and on the Pacific Coast. In Herb. Farlow it is 
represented by specimens not previously enuinerated in the Botanical 
Gazette, 1. c., as follows: Michigan (Н. L. Merrow); Wisconsin (J. 
J. Davis); Illinois (C. A. Hart); Iowa (B. D. Halsted); Kansas 
(Kellerman & Carlton). In these states the hosts were S. marilandica, 
S. gregaria, and in one case, as it is said, S. canadensis. On the West 
Coast it has a range from San Diego Co. on S. bipinnatifida (C. В. 
Orcutt), La Honda (T. S. Brandegee), Santa Barbara on S. arctopoides 
(Mrs. Brigham), Tamalpais (Н. W. Harkness), and Mendocino Co. 
(W. C. Blasdale) in California to Eugene, Oregon (A. R. Sweetser) 
and Mt. Tacoma on Ligusticum apiifolium (Е. И. D. Holway), the 
common host plant in the Pacific States being S. Menziesii. It was 
distributed by Seymour & Earle in Economic Fungi Suppl. A, 10, 
and by Ellis & Everhart in North American Fungi, no. 1806, Fungi 
Columbiana, no. 652, and Winter, Fungi Europaei, no. 3474. The 
name Caeomurus pluriannulatus was given to the species by Otto 
Kuntze in Rev. Gen. Plant. 3?, 450, 1898, in ignorance of the fact that 
it is not a Uromyces. 
PUCCINIASTRUM ARCTICUM (Lagh.) Tranzsch. A few years ago 
while examining some leaves of Rubus occidentalis collected near 
Cambridge, which were infested with Chrysomyxa albida J. Kühn, a 
species placed in Phragmidium by recent writers, I found a very small 
but striking uredo, which did not apparently have any connection 
with the Chrysomyxa since it had a pseudoperidium such as is found 
