Lone: Texas Funct 115 
34 x 42-50; slightly or not at all 
constricted in the middle. Cells 
equal: pedicel short, stout, hyaline. 
On Verbesina encelioides Gray 
(Ximenesia encelioides Cav.), Austin, 
Texas, Nov. 16, 1899, no. 65, by 
W. L. Bray. 
This species was reported as 
common that year, but has not Fic. 5. Puccinia ximenesiae on 
been collected since. Verbesina encilioides. A, uredospores. 
Aes B, teleutospores when boiled in lactic 
Puccinia farinacea sp. nov. acid. C, teleutospores when mounted 
in water. 
Sori amphigenous, powdery. 
II. Uredosori cinnamon brown, small, about .5 mm. in diam- 
eter, often densely covering parts of the leaf surface. 
Uredospores subglobose, light brown, 20-26 y, echinulate : 
germ pores two or three, mainly two and very prominent in fresh 
Spores, with a convex cap over each pore. 
i III. Teleutosori scattered, black, orbicular, .5-1 mm. in diam- 
eter. 
Teleutospores dark brown, broadly oval to subglobose, 26-30 
_  -X 30-344, often apiculate, very 
2 slightly or not at all constricted 
at the septum, upper cell verru- 
cose, lower faintly so: pedicel 
hyaline, weak, attenuate, about 
thrice the length of the spores ; 
— 3 a 1-celled teleutospores sparingly 
A Lt | | ene present, 
GH |] Xe Lv On Salvia farinacea, Austin, 
Texas, Oct. 31, 1900, no. 826; 
. wt & 2 Nov. 12, 1900, no. 833 (type); 
_*1G. 6. Puccinia farinacea on Salvia April 4, IgoI, no. 826 (II.); 
croacea. Ay uredospores. 2, teleuto- May 4, 1901, no. 858 (II.), and 
Spores, 
Fic. 7. Puccinia ballotaeflora on Sal- J une 18, 19OT. McNeal, Texas, 
via 
Pr meat C, uredospores. D, May 12, 1901 (II). 
rg . . 
aa Common on Salvia farinacea 
tg April to December. Uredospores from April to October, 
utospores from then till frost kills the host. 
