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Pucciiiia linearis, Peck. 



Ampliigenous ; sori vory narrow, deep Bcutud, oblong or linear, parallel, 

 crowded, long covered by the epidermis, black ; spores oblong, slightly taper- 

 ing toward the base, not constricted, very obtuse or truncate, .0018'-0034' long, 

 .0006' broad ; pedicel colored, very short. 



Leaves and sheaths of grasses. Watkins. September. 

 This is related to Puccinia coronata, but it is without the apical 

 teeth of the spore. 



Pucciuia angustataj Peck. 



Hypogenous ; spots pallid or none ; sori oblong or linear, sometimes regu- 

 larly arranged at equal intervals in long parallel lines, narrow, black ; spores 

 narrow, oblong-clavate or elongated, septate above the middle, strongly con- 

 stricted, having the lower cell more narrow than the upper, and cylindrical 

 or slightly tapering downwards, .OOOlB'-.OO^i' long, .OOOG' broad ; pedicel 

 colored, thick, very short. 



Leaves of Scirpus sylvaticum and S. Eriopliorum. West Albany 

 and Watkins. September. 



Protomyces Erytlironii, Peck. 



Spots stained with red or purple ; spores growing in the tissues of the 

 leaf, scattered or crowded, most often arranged in short series and erumpent 

 through narrow chinks in the epidermis, large, globose, at length black, 

 .002 '-.0026' in diameter. 



Leaves and petioles of Erythroniwn Americanuni. Greenbush. 

 May. 



The leaf is most frequently affected at the base of the lamina or 

 blade. 



Ustilago Erytlironii J Clinton. 



Produced on the leaves in oblong or irregular vesicular patches, half an 

 inch or more in length ; spores globose, rough, rather large, .0006 '-.00075' in 

 diameter, black in the mass. 



Leaves of Erythroniuni Americanum. Goat Island, Clinton. 



Uredo Ledicola, Peck. 



Spots small, definite, rarely confluent, suborbicular, reddish-brown, some- 

 times with a darker border ; sori subrotund or irregular, surrounded by the 

 ruptured epidermis ; spores subglobose, rough, .0012' in diameter, orange, 

 with a thick hyaline epispore. 



Upper surface of leaves of Ledum latifolium. M(. Marcy. July. 



Apparently quite distinct from U. Lcdl A. & S. 



