Part 1, 1906] USTIIvAGINACBAB 45 



to subspherical , 85-200 // in length; spores tinted, with darker reddish-brown folds of 

 outer coat showing as ridges or reticulations, or upon rupture as blunt processes or spine- 

 like projections, chiefly irregularly polygonal or subglobose, 7.5-10 ^, rarely longer. 



On Poaceae : 



Homalocenchrus hexandrus {Leersia hexandra) ^ Alabama, Texas. 

 Type locality: Brisbane, Australia, on Leersia hexandra {Homalocenchrus hexandrus), 

 (Type from Kew examined.) 



Distribution : Alabama and Texas ; also in South America, Africa and Australia. 

 Illustration : Ann. Sci. Nat. VI. 15 : pi. 14, f. 6-10. 



3. Tolyposporium Eriocauli Clinton, Rhodora 3 : 82. 1901. 



Sori in ovaries, ovoid, somewhat two-lobed, 1-2 mm. in length, very inconspicuous in 

 the infected heads, covered by a grayish membrane which on rupture discloses the granular 

 spore-mass ; spore-balls black, perfectly opaque, irregularly oblong to subspherical, fre- 

 quently somewhat angled, firm, composed of many spores, chiefly 65-200 (" in length ; 

 spores light-colored, subspherical to spherical, adhering together by dark folds of their 

 outer membrane which on rupture of balls show as reticulations or spine-like processes or 

 even become entirely detached, 8-11 y- in diameter exclusive of processes. 



On Eriocaulaceae : 



Eriocaulon septangulare, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire. 

 Type locality : Ellis, Massachusetts, on Eriocaulon seplangulare . 

 Distribution : New England. 

 Illustration: Rhodora 3 : 80,/! 1. 

 ExsiCCATi : Seym. & Earle, Econ. Fungi C54. 



11. TESTICULARIA Klotzsch, Wnnaea 7 : 202. 1832. 



Milleria Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 31 : 40. 1879. Not Milleria \,. 1753. 



Sori in the inflorescence, possibly limited to the ovaries, forming a conspicuous agglu- 

 tinated mass of spore-balls, provided with an evident false membrane; spore-balls composed 

 of an external layer of fertile cells within which is a central mass of sterile parenchymatous 

 cells, of large size ; spores dark-colored, apparently at length dehiscing, of medium size ; 



germination unknown. 



Type, Testicularia Cyperi Klotzsch. 



1. Testicularia Cyperi Klotzsch, I^innaea 7 : 202. 1832. 



Milleria herbaiica Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 31: 40. 1879. (Type from New York, on 

 Rynchospora macrostachya.) 



Sori at the base of the spikelets of the inflorescence, apparently in the ovaries, one to 

 several, forming conspicuous ovoid to subspherical tumors about 5-15 mm. in length, 

 covered with a thick whitish false membrane that ruptures irregularly at apex and discloses 

 a usually firmly agglutinated black granular mass of spore-balls ; sterile cells of false 

 membrane hyaline, chiefly subspherical, rather firmly bound together, about 11-17 fi in 

 diameter, often semigelatinized ; spore-baUs black, chiefly ovoid to subspherical, composed 

 of a superficial layer of numerous spores and an internal mass of thin-walled semihyaline 

 or brownish sterile cells averaging slightly smaller than the spores, 160-375 /^ in length; 

 spores with very thick opaque wall having lighter- colored reddish-brown central part, 

 chiefly ovoid to spherical, smooth or slightly granular, 13-16// in length. 



On Cyperaceae : „ ^ , ^ -v-r -it i 



Rynchospora corniculala macrostachya (J?, macrostachya). New York. 



Type locality : North America, on Cyperaceae. 



Distribution: Wading River, New York ^^^^^^. » j^i o a 



Illustrations: Ann. Sci. Nat. VI. IS: pi. 14, f. IS; I.innaea7: pi. 9, A. 

 Exsiccati : Ellis, N. Am. Fungi <?fl5. 



