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Uromyces eriogoni. 



I. Hymenium. iEcidium preceding or mixed with the 

 teleutospores, crowded in clusters of 5 — 20; peridia cylind- 

 rical with minutely fringed border; spores yellow, smooth, 

 irregular in shape with several large vacuoles. 



II. Stylospores. Pale brown, globose rough. 



III. Teleutospores. Sori oblong, arranged in concentric 

 ellipses; spores obovate. or oblong; epispore yellowish 

 brown, thickened above; pedicel 3 — 4 times as long as the 

 spores, fx 27—38 X 26. ' 



On stems of Eriogonum virgatum. Antioch, Cal., July. 



3002. 



Hymenula aciculosa. 



Convex, gelatinous, livid, translucent, f — \\ mm., discoid 

 and nearly black when dry, with a dense marginal fringe of 

 straight erect brown fibres, enclosing the densely compacted 

 mass of erect, acicular, filiform, nucleolate, sub-hyaline, 

 /* 50 — 60 X 1, spores, with numerous minute sporules inter- 

 mingled. 



On leaves of Pinus ponderosa. Sierra Nevada, Aug. 3537. 



NEW SPECIES OF CALIF0RNIAN FUNGI. 



BY H. W. HAEKNESS. 



Octaviania rosea. 



Gregarious, peridium fibrillo-rugose, irregularly lobecl, 

 1 — 3 cm., with distinct absorbing base, pale rose color, 

 deepening within; basidia 1 — 2, spored; sterigmata filiform, 

 capitate, as long as the diameter of the spore; spores glo- 

 bose, hyaline, pale; epispore covered with short, obtuse 

 spines. /* 14 — 17. 



