36 SACCARDO, PECK, TRELEASE 



Kadiak (Trelease, 675) ; Yakutat (Trelease, 674) ; Unalaska (Tre- 

 lease, 676). In the inflorescence of Polygonum viviparum. 



This differs from var. glabra in the part of the host plant in which 

 the spores appear, and from the typical form of the species further in 

 its smoother spores. 



Family UREDINACE.E. 



Caeoma saxifragarum (De Candolle) Schlechtendal.* 



St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea (Trelease, 660, on Saxifraga 

 bracteata). 



Uredo ledicola Peck.* 



Virgin Bay (Trelease, 641) ; Kadiak (Trelease, 642). On Ledum 

 palustre. 



Uredo nootkatensis Trelease, sp. nov.* 



Sori subhemispherical, about .5 mm. in diameter, deep orange, the 

 affected leaf yellowish. Spores globose to shortly obovoid, the rather 

 thin wall colorless, radiately striate and slightly roughened, 28-31 n; 

 pedicel colorless, very slender, breaking a short distance from the spore. 



Hot Springs, Baranof Island (Trelease, 668, on leaves of Chamcecy- 

 parts nootkatensis). 



Peridermium cerebrum Peck.* 



New Metlakatla (Trelease, 667, on Pinus contorta}. 



.^Ecidium ranunculacearum De Candolle.* 



Unalaska (Harrington in 1871-2 ; Trelease, 663 both on Anemone 

 richardsonii ; Trelease, 662, on Ranunculus). 



Held to be a stage of Uromyces dactylidis, which has not yet been 

 observed as Alaskan. 



^cidium grossulariae De Candolle.* 



Wrangell (Evans, 95) ; Juneau (Trelease, 644) ; Sitka (Trelease, 

 643); Yakutat (Saunders, 646; Trelease, 645). On Ribes. 



.fficidium fraserae Trelease, sp. nov.* 



Spots yellowish, round or sometimes elongated on the petiole or 

 inidvein, measuring 2-5 mm. Spermogonia and aecidia amphigenous 

 but most numerous on the lower surface, the former at length brown ; 

 peridia not crowded, irregularly or subcircinately placed, about .25 

 mm. in diameter, cylindrical, without spreading border; spores poly- 

 gonally subglobose to ellipsoid, nearly smooth, 16-22 //. 



Kadiak (Trelease, 647, 648, 649, on leaves of Frasera). 



