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New Fungi, mostly Uredineae and Ustilagineae from various Lo- 
calities, and a new Fomes from Alaska. 
By J. B. ELtis AnD B, M. EVERHART. 
Fomes Tincrorius E. & E. 
(On hemlock trees or logs ?) 
Admiralty Island, Alaska. Collected by James G. Swan, no. 
20, 851. Comm. Frederick V. Coville, Botanist, U.S. Dept. Agr. 
Pileus dimidiate, sessile, subunguliform, convex below, slaty 
brown, witha few elevated concentric zones, the surface of which 
is more or less cracked, substance flocose-fibrous, deep red, some- 
what friable, superficial layer indurated, slate color, margin ob- 
tuse, 6-7 cm. long and broad, by 4-5 cm. thick. Pores large, I-2 
cm. long, 1%-2 mm. thick, same color as the inner substance of 
the pileus, filled with grumous matter and spores. Spores sub- 
globose or short elliptical, red, 5-6 x 31%4-4 4p. 
Resembles somewhat F. /ateritius Cke., but pores much larger 
and not stratose. When ground up it looks like madder, and 13° 
used for dyeing. 
UstiraGo ARENARIAE E. & E. 
In the inflorescence of Avenaria congesta Nutt., North Park, 
Colo., July, 1894. Alt. go00 ft. (Prof. C. S. Crandall, no. 119-) 
Spore mass purplish-black. Spores oblong-elliptical, opaque, 
14-17X 8-10, with a minute hyaline appendage at the base. 
The spores resemble the sporidia of Musmmularia Bulliardi Tul. 
Usti-aco Murrorpiana E. & E. 
Infesting and destroying the panicles of a species of Festuca 
_ while still enclosed in the sheath. Near Boise City, Idaho, June, 
1892. (A. I. Mulford.) , 
Mass of spores nearly black. Spores when moistened glo- 
bose or nearly so, 10-14 diam., epispore minutely roughened; 
when dry many of them become oblong or short-cylindrical, 10- 
14x 6-8 p. 
UsTILaGo MONILIFERA E, & E. 
In ovaries of Heteropogon contortus. Tucson, Arizona, May, 
1893. (Prof. J. W. Toumey, no. 2.) 
Mass of spores tobacco brown. Spores concatenate, lying 1” 
parallel chains, subglobose, subcubical or subangular, hyaline at 
first, then brown, 8-12y in the longer diameter, and very ™ 
nutely echinulate when highly magnified. 
