330 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



is shrubby. We passed gay patches of pink Gerardia filifolia^ Nutt., 

 and yellow Seymeria tenuifolia^ Pursh ; stray plants of G. parvifolia., 

 Chapm. all tangled up in the grass; bright golden-yellow Clvnji^opsis 

 decumbens^ Chapm. and C. trfchophi/Ua, Nutt.; pretty white heads of 

 Palafox'm integrifolia., Torr. & Gray; black rayless heads of HcUanthus 

 Radula^ Torr. & Gray with its pretty rosette of four large root-leaves 

 lying flat upon the ground; a species of white Sabbatia, and two or 

 three varieties of bright yellow "wild sun-tlowers." Where the bar- 

 rens had been burned over, that sure follower of the fire, Tlypoxys 

 juncea. Smith, had sprung up, and was already in bloom. In rich 

 muddy places especially near houses, Scoparia dulds^ L., was an un- 

 tidy weed. Another of our beautiful fall flowers, PolygoneUa parvi- 

 folia, Michx. was just coming into bloom. This tiny delicate flower 

 is very dainty and attractive. It grows in short racemes which make 

 a crowded panicle. The sterile flowers are generally of a pure white 

 color, while the fertile are a yellowish green or bright pink. This 

 PolygoneUa makes a pretty addition to grass boquets, as it keeps its 

 color and remains secure upon the stem. Of the many other plants 

 that we saw, I have only room to mention Siphonychia diffusa^ Chapm. 

 This is a very pretty plant ; the prostrate stems form mats upon the 

 ground, and the tiny pinkish-white flowers are in numerous ''com- 

 pact, rectangular cymes, terminating all the branches." — 



Mary C. Reynolds. 



New Specifs of Fungi, by Chas. H. Peck. — JEcidium monoicum. — 

 Spots none; peridia generally crowded, occupying the whole lower 

 surface of the leaf, subcylindrical ; spores subglobose, bright-yellow, 

 .0008-.0011 of an inch in diameter, generally Avith one to three shi- 

 ning nuclei; spermogonia on different leaves of the same plant. 



Leaves of Arabis retrofracta. Colorado. T. S. Brandeycc. Commu- 

 nicated by E. A. Rail. 



From the notes of Mr. Brandegee we learn that early in March 

 when the host plants begin to grow, those affected by the fungus be- 

 gin to look sickly. They soon turn yellow and never blossom. ' 



-^ciDiUM PoLEMONii. — Spots suborbicular, pallid or greenish-yellow, 

 sometimes confluent; peridia hypophyllous, crowded, short; spores 

 globose or subelliptical, bright orange, .0008-.001 of an inch in diam- 

 eter, minutely rough ; spermagOnia central on both sides of the leaf. 



Leaves of Polemonium reptans. Iowa. May. E. TF. Holway. 



JEciDiuM GiLi^. — Spots pale-yellow ; peridia scattered or crowded, 

 short, pustuliform, hypophyllous, rarely also epiphyllous, opening 



