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leve tardeque acre; lamellae tenues, confertae, leviter sinuatae, 

 albae ; stipes centralis eccentricusve aequalis vel basi leviter in- 

 crassatus, solidus, sericeo-fibrillosus, albidus vel extus brunneus, 

 intus brunnescens ; sporae late ellipsoideae, 8-9 x 6-7 /i. 



Trichothecium candidum A\'allr. 

 On a drying specimen of i'ulyporus hispidus (Bull.) 

 Fr. Albany. September. 



Uromyces caricinus E. & E. 

 Leaves and culms of C a r e x s c o p a r i a Schk. Alcove, 

 Albany co. July. C. L. Shear. 



Uromyces scirpi (Cast.) Burr. 

 Leaves of river bulrubh, Scirpus fluviatilis (Torr.) 

 Gray. Clayton, JefTerson co. September. The aecial form oc- 

 curs on leaves of poison hemlock, Cicuta maculata L. 



Volutella cucurbitina n. sp. 



Sporodochia orbicular, crowded in orbicular patches which are 

 sometimes confluent, purplish brown becoming brown with age or 

 in drying, adorned with slender subulate blackish setae, .0024- 

 .0048 of an inch long, .00012-.00015 broad; spores oblong, obtuse, 

 hyaline, .O304-.ooo9 of an inch long, .00016-.0002 broad, sporo- 

 phores very short or obsolete. 



Rind of summer crookneck squash, C u c u r b i t a p e p o L. 

 Alenands, Albany co. September. 



Sporodochia orbicularia, in maculis orbicularibus dense conferta, 

 interdum confluentia, oculo inermi brunneo-purpurea, in aetate 

 brunnescentia, setis gracilibus subulatis nigris, 60^-120x3-4 // 

 ornata ; sporae oblongae, obtusis, hyalinis. 10-22x4-5 ,'^ sporo- 

 phoris brevissimis obsoletisve. 



