2o8 The Ohio Naturalist. [Vol. II, No. 4, 



24. Piggotia fraxini 3. & C. 



On Fraxinus pennsj-lvanica Marsh. 



Lakeside, Ottawa Co., Ohio. Sept. 19, 1901. 



Coll. W. A. Kellerman. 



" Piggotia fraxini B. & C. Peritheciis hie illic caespites punc- 

 tifornies congestis ; sporis oblongis niinutis. 



" Hypopli3'llous. Perithecia collected two or three together 

 into little rugged dot-like groups; spores minute oblong." M. J. 

 Berkeley, Grevillea, 3 : 7. September, 1874. 



25. Polystictus molliusculus Berk. 



On rotten Beech log. 



Columbus, Ohio. Oct. 30, 1901. 



Coll. W. A. Kellerman. 



" Polyporus (Anoderniei) molliusculus, n. sp.; imbricatuspileis 

 effuso-reflexis sublobatis leviter zonatis albis ; zonis strigis mollibus 

 sparsis ornatis ; contextu albo ; poriis mediis pallidis. 



" Imbricated thin 5 inches or more long, 3 inches broad, some- 

 times perfectl}' resupinate, more generally with the border broadly 

 reflected and slightly lobed, finely silky or nearly smooth, with 

 zones of soft strigae, which in the dried plant are perfectly innate. 

 Substance white, thin, corky when dry. 



" Pores 1-48 of an inch broad, at first entire with thick dissepi- 

 ments, at length lacerated and elongated, wood colored." I\I. J. 

 Berkeley, London Journal of Botany, 6 : 320. 1847. 



26. Puccinia angustata Peck. 



On Scirpus cypcrinus ( L. ) Kunth. 



Sugar Grove, Fairfield Co., Ohio. October 12, igoi. 



Coll. W. A. Kellerman. 



" P. angustata Peck. H3'pogenous ; spots pallid or none ; sori 

 oblong or linear, sometimes regularly arranged at equal intervals 

 in long parallel lines, narrow, surrounded by the ruptured 

 epidermis, black ; .spores narrow, oblong-clayate or elongated, 

 septate aboye the middle, strongly con.stricted, having the lower cell 

 more narrow than the upper and cylindrical or .slightly tapering 

 downwards, .on 18'-. 0024' long, .0006^ broad ; peduncle colored, 

 thick, yery .short." Chas. H. Peck, Report on the State ISIu.seum, 

 State of New York, 25 : 123. 1S72. 



27. Puccinia asparagi DC. 



On Aspargus officinalis L. , plants grown from seed .sown 



in the spring of 1900. 



Columbus, Ohio. April 10, T901. 



Coll. W. A. Kellerman. 



" Puccinia asparagi. Elle est assez comminie en automne sur 

 les tiges les branches, et les feuilles de ra.sparage ofTicinale; elle 

 forme des taches ovales ou plus souvent oblongucs, brunes, con- 

 vexes ; I'epiderme ,se fend longitudinalement ; les puccines sont 

 inserces et fortcment fixees sur \\n receptacle dur et charnu ; 

 chacune d'elles est compose d'un pedicelle blanc qui .soutient un 

 pericarpe oblong, obtus, a 2 loges scparces par un etranglement 

 tres-pronounce." DeCandolIe, I'lore Fran(;ai.se, 2 : 595. 1805. 



