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TILLETIA Tul. - Syll. VII p. 481, IX p. 286, XI p. 233, XIV p. 421, 

 XVI, p. 373. 



1. Tilletia texana Long, apud Clint. in Journ. of Mycol. 1902, p. 149. 1659 

 — Soris ovaria clestruentibus, ovoideo-oblongis, 3-5 mm. diam. ; 

 massa sporarum rubro-brunnea cellulis parenchymaticis hyalinis 

 obvoluta; sporis aurantiaco-luteis subglobosis, tuberculis. 2-3 ji. d. 

 prominentibus donatis, episporio hyalino, 19-25 |i. diam. 



Hab. in ovariis Hordei pratensis, Texas Amer. bor. 



2. Tilletia hypsophila Speg. Myc. arg. ser. II, 1902, p. 59. — Ovariis 1660 

 infectis, glumellis immutatis sed late apertis, cinctis, late ellipticis, 

 fuscis 1,5-2,5 mm. long., compactiusculis, inter digitos compressis 

 pulverem ferrugineum emittentibus; sporis ab initio liberis 18-24 



[i. diam., tunica crassa duplici vestitis, interna ferruginea, dense 

 ruguloso-verruculosa, externa levi hyalina. 



Hab. in ovariis Stipre csespitosae et St. tenuissimie, Tu- 

 cuman et Salta Argentinse. 



3. Tilletia Wilcoxiana G-riffiths in Bull. of the Torr. Bot. Club. p. 88, 1061 

 fig. 17. — Soris totum ovarium implentibus et tumefacientibus, 

 olivaceo-griseis, fusiformibus ; sporis in cumulo pallide brunneis, 

 subglobosis, 15-19 \i. diam., hyalinis, episporio crassiusculo do- 

 natis. 



Hab. in ovariis Stipae eminentis v. Andersonii, Santa 

 Monica Californiae (H. E. Hasse). 



4. Tilletia Earlei Grifuths in Bull. of the Torrey Bot. Club. 1902, 1662 

 p. 290, fig. 2. — Soris culmicolis, internodia tumefacientibus, per 

 rimas usque 10 cm. longas erumpentibus, culmos totos contor- 

 quentibus ; sporis pallide brunneis, globosis, tuberculis validis circ. 



2 [).. crassis obvolutis, episporio hyalino, tubercula includente, levi 

 13-18 (x. diam. 



Hab. in culmis deformatis Agropyri occidentalis, Aber- 

 deen, S. D. Amer. bor. 



5. Tilletia Velenovskyi Bubak, (Esterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1903, p. 51. — 1663 

 Soris brunneo-violaceis, ovaria implentibus ibiquo inclusis; sporis 

 globosis v. breve ovoideis, 22-28 a. diam. ; episporio hete viola- 

 ceo-brunneolo, translucido, striato; striis depressis, vix 1 jx., areo- 



las 4-angulares v. polygonas 2-4 ijl. diam. formantibus. 



Hab. in ovariis Bromi arvensis pr. Sadovo Bulgariie (Ve- 

 lenovsky). — Till. Lolii subaffinis. 



6. Tilletia Bornmiilleri Magn. in Bull. Herb. Boissier 1903, n. 7, 1664 

 p. 574, tab IV, fig. 8-12. — Sporis in ovariis nidulantibus, vix 



