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these were seen to be abnormally developed stems with their ‘mis- 
shapen flowers in dense clusters. Some of the stems bore ordinary: 
flowers a few inches below the malformed tips. 
An examination assured me that the strange forms were due 
to an £xobasidium, and not being able to make it fit into any of 
the species described, was constrained to send specimens to Pro- 
EXOBASIDIUM Peck, HALs., CAUSING POLYPETALOUS FLOWERS IN ANDROMEDA 
MARIANA. 
fessor Peck, who is the author of three of the American species of 
Exobasidiums, including the one upon Andromeda above men- 
tioned. He reported it as unknown to him. It is therefore with 
much pleasure that this second Exodbasidium upon the Andromeda 
genus, the first bearing the generic name Andromeda by Professor 
Peck, is to be called Exobasidium Peckii,in honor of a life-long 
faithful laborer in American Mycology. 
