BOTANICAL GAZETTE. ^Jl 



by a small aperture; spores orange, angular or subglobose, .0008-.001 

 of an inch in diameter, generally with one to three shining nuclei. 



Leaves of Gilia NuftaUii. Alta, Wasatch Mts., Utah. August. Al- 

 titude 8,000 feet. 31. E. Jones. 



^ciDiUM INTERMIXTUM. — Peridia scattered, hypophyllous, short; 

 spores subglobose or elliptical, orange-colored, .0008-. 0012 of an inch 

 ])road. 



Leaves of Iva axillaris. Green River, Wyoming Territory. July 

 M. E. Jones. 



This occurs in company with Puccinia intermixta of which it is prob- 

 ably a form. In some instances the jEcidium was on the lower sur- 

 face of the leaf and the Puccinia on the upper surface, in others both 

 were intermingled on the lower surface. 



Cenangium platascum. — Cups small, clustered, at first with a 

 white margin, then plane and black margined ; asci numerous, ovate 

 or subspherical ; spores oblong-ovate, fenestrate, slightly colored, 

 .0008 of an inch long, .0005 of an inch broad. * 



On bark. Alabama. T. 31. Peters. 



SPHyERELLA MEGASTOMA. — Perithecia minute, numerous, amphigen- 

 ous, at first covered by the epidermis, then erumpent, black; ostiola 

 large, circular, pale within; asci subcylindrical; spores uniseriate or 

 sometimes crowded, oblong-elliptical, granular within, greenish- 

 yellow, .0004 — .0006 of an inch long. 



Living and languishing leaves of Astragalus hisulcatus. Colorado. 

 July. 31. E. Jones. 



This fungus appears to attack the leaves while living and to cause 

 their death. 



The Colorado Berberis. — One dislikes to call attention to errors 

 upon the pages of so excellent a book as the Botany of Lieut. Wheel- 

 er's Surveys, but in that work one plant is given as '"common in the 

 mountain parts of Central Colorado," which, I venture to say, does 

 not occur in Colorado at all, i. e. Berberis Aquifolium, Pursh. I have 

 seen acres of that shrub in the mountains of California, but after six 

 seasons of botanizing in different i:»arts of Colorado, I have to say that 

 I never met with it here. Berberis repens., Lindl., which Dr. Rothrock 

 says he did not see, is common enough in the mountains of Colorado. 

 This very different species, foraierly considered a variety 6if B. Aqui- 

 foiimn, was so designated in the earlier catalogues-of Colorado plants; 

 but since the specific rank which it merited has been conceded to it, 

 the name of B. Aquifolium should be dropped froiji the. Rocky Moun- 



