PAPERS GIVING RUSTS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



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2881. 71. C. A. Bcrberidatum, Lk. 157, on Berberis canadensis, Carolina. 



This number is not starred, and it is probable that a reference 

 to the record in the Xorth Carohna list was omitted unintentionally. 

 It is here added. 



(437. 8. [.Ecidium] P.crbcridis. Ratlicr rare on leaves of Berberis 

 vulgaris, covering tbe mountains of Wilkes County.) 



Represented by a mounted specimen of a stout, ash-gray stem, 

 3.5 cm. lony. havin.<; two fascicles of leaves, two full-grown leaves 

 in one fascicle and three in the other, each leaf 1.5 by 3 cm. or some- 

 what less, bearing a number of small groups of young secia, one 

 group only appearing mature (see cut). There is also an empty 



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Fig. I. From a pliotograpii of the mounted specimen in the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, basis of Schweinitz's No. 2881. Each 

 specimen in the mounted set is treated essentially in the same manner. The 

 writing was done by Michener. Engraved full size. 



packet labelled inside ".-Ecidium Berberidis," and on the outside 

 "yEcidiiun Berberidat in Berb canad Salem." 



The rust is the cccial stage of Pitccinia f'ocnliforDiis (Jacq.) 



