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slightly toothed; spores sub-globose or elliptical, smooth, 14— 
18» diam., bright orange, at first soon fading. 
Urepo ErrocomarE E. & E. 
On leaves of Eriocoma caespitosa, Mojave Desert, Kern Co., 
Calif., May, 1892. Coll. D. W. Coquillett; comm. Miss May 
Varney. 
Sori mostly epiphyllous, linear, soon naked, dark brown, 1-4 
mm. long; uredospores elliptical, pale brown, 20-30% 10-12y, 
epispore thick, rather coarsely, but only slightly tuberculo-echinu- 
late-roughened, mostly filled with large oil globules; pedicels 
weak, slender, hyaline, deciduous, 20~30» long. 
SPHAEROPSIDEAE. 
PHYLLOSTICYA LIVIDA E, & E, 
On leaves of Quercus Douglas, Amador Co., Calif. (Hansen, 
no. 1218.) 
Spots large (1 cm.), subindefinite, brown below, livid brown 
above; perithecia amphigenous, numerous, covered by the livid 
epidermis, which is raised into small pustules and only tardily rup- 
tured; sporules minute (3XIy), numerous, hyaline. 
PHYLLOSTICTA GALLICOLA E. & E. 
Parasitic on the fungoid gal! known as “ Riytisma Solidaginis,” 
Colorado, 1896. (Bethel, no. 221.) 
Perithecia numerous, amphigenous, globose, about 210 diam., 
fringed with brown mycelium, buried except the erumpent apex, 
which is rather broadly perforated; sporules elliptical, smoky- 
hyaline, 6-15 X6-8p. 
Puytiosticta Eucatypti E. & E. 
On the dead brown extremities or upper half of the leaves of 
Eucalyptus, California. (Bethel.) 
Perithecia amphigenous, evenly scattered, innate-erumpent, 
globose, 100-120» diam.; sporules oblong, 5-8 XI 14-2 4p. 
PHYLLOSTICTA WISLIZENI E. & E. 
On leaves of Quercus Wislizeni, Amador Co., Calif., 1896. 
(Hansen, no. 1502.) 
Epiphyllous,on dirty brown subindefinite spots or dead areas of 
the leaf, often terminal or lateral, and subconfluent ; perithecia at 
first covered by the blackened pustuliform-elevated epidermis, 
which is at length variously ruptured, often by a fissure running 
across the pustule, with the aspect of Hysterium, 250-300” diam., — 
