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sules for an inch or so, when they as abruptly expand into a broad, 
sterile apex. Odd freaks in this species are not uncommon. Prof. 
Guttenberg and others have sent me specimens of a somewhat simi- 
lar character before, and many of diverse character have come 
under my own observation. 
Abnormal Botrychiutn Virginianum. — Forkin gs of the fertile 
branch in this species have previously been recorded by others, as 
well as myself, but the only instance known to me where the fertile 
panicle is partly transformed into a sterile one occurs in my only 
California specimen — one of three specimens collected in 1873 by 
F. A. Miller during an excursion to the Sierras from San Francisco 
for seeds and plants, and, I may add, the only specimen known to 
me as ever coming from California, In this specimen, the branches 
of the fertile panicle are alternately sterile and fertile all the way up. 
The frond itself is of good size and there is scarcely a trace of pu- 
bescence on it ; but, as the common stalk was broken off some dis- 
tance from the base, it is impossible to describe its characters below. 
New North American Fungi. 
By Geo. Winter. 
SoROSPOR^UM Ellisii. — Glomeruli forma magnitudineque varia, 
mox subsphseroidei, mox oblongi, opaci, e sporis numerosis compo- 
siti, 35-70 fx diam. Spor^ rotundato-polygonia:, episporio granuloso, 
fuscse dissolventes, 12-16/^ longos, 8-1 2/< crass?e vel 12/^ diam. 
Ad Andropogo7iem Virgifiicam, Newfield, New Jersey, et ad Arts- 
tidam dichototiiain, Chester Co., Pa. Legit Wm. Trimble. 
UsTiLAGO ViLFiE. — Massa sporarum fusconigra, inflorescentiam 
totam implectens et destruens (fere more Ustilaginis destrucntis), 
Sporse subrotundae vel parum elongatai et oblongatae, amoene fusca^, 
episporio granuloso, 12-16/i diam. vel usque 19/^ longse. 
Ad Vilfam vagincefloram. Chester Co., Pa. ^ Legit Dr. Martin. 
GoNATOBOTRYS MACULicoLA. — Flocci solitarii, sparsi, in ma- 
cula subrotunda angulataque fusca, fusco-nigro cincta, exarida, hypo- 
phylli, longi, erecti, flexuosi, fusci, basi parum bulbosi, septati, ca. 
8-12/^ crassi. Sporidia in nodulis parum prominentibus sessilia, 
elliptica, utrinque acutiuscula, fusca, 7-1 1/' longa, 5-7/^ crassa. 
Ad Hamamelidis Virginia folia languida. BetlUehem, Pa. 
Legit E, A. Rau. 
Hottingen bei Zurich. 
Notes on Grasses.— T^r/V/z/^r/V, Fournier. — It was a mistake of 
mine to quote Fournier as the authority for Trichloris Blanchardiana 
(see No. 54 of the List of Pringle's Grasses, Bulletin, Vol. ix., p. 
146). In fact, under the circumstances, it would have been better 
to omit the specific name altogether. Fournier, in theGramineoe of 
the Mexicanarum Plantarum Enumeratio, not yet published, has two 
fascicidat 
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from Texas (= No. 1,430 Bcrlandier). Without descriptions or 
specimens for comparison, I cannot say which name belongs to 
Pringle's grass. Mr. Bentham, in a recent letter, states that both 
