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broadly lanceolate, while those of C. album, L. are rhomboid. 

 Both species drop the larger leaves early, many of them even 

 before blooming. It is to this fact that I attribute the cause 

 of our authorities regarding them as one species ; when the leaves 

 have fallen, so that but few of the smaller ones are left among 

 the flowers, they are not so readily distinguished. 



(e) These distinctions are constant, the two forms do not show a 

 disposition to shade into one another. Among thousands of 

 plants observed during the last ten summers, there never has 

 been any dcubt as to which species a given specimen belonged. 



(f) C. viridc, L., isa hardier plant, and a later immigrant mto the 

 Wabash valley ; while it is annually increasing m abundance, its 

 congener is gradually becoming less common. 



(g) In regard to the mealiness, I have observed Httle constant dis- 

 tinction; probably C allmm, L. is more mealy, especially 

 among the flowers. The flowers are also a little larger in this 

 species. — Dr. J. Schneck. 



New Species of Fun2:i, by Chas. H. Peck.-PuccmiA MiRA- 

 BiLissiMA.— Spots small and dot-like or larger and subrotund, black 

 or Dlackishbrown above; sori hypophyllous, few, small, pale reddish- 

 brown ; stvlospores subglobose obovate or pyriform, obtuse, very mi- 

 nutely rough, .0009-. 00 1 3 of an inch long, .0008-. 0009 of an inch 

 broad, pedicel colorless, easily separating from the spore when mature ; 

 teleutospores intermingled in the same sorus with the stylospores, ellip- 

 tical, obtuse, constricted at the septum, minutely rough, .001 2-. 00 13 

 of an inch long, .0009-.001 of an inch broad, pedicel very long, col- 



orless. 



Living or languishing leaves of Berberis repens. City Creek Ca- 

 non, Utah, July, M. E. Jones. . • 1 j • 



In this singular Puccinia both kinds of spores are intermingled in 

 the same sorus, but the Uredo or stylospores are much more numer- 

 ous than the others. They appear to be joined to their pedicels by 

 an articulation, and when mature they easily separate from these like 

 Trichobasis spores, although in general appearance they close y re- 

 semble the spores of many species of Uromyces. The pedicels ot 

 the Puccmia or teleutospores are usually two or three times as long as 

 the spores. There are from one to six sori on a spot. 



Puccinia ToNESii.— Spots pallid, indefinite; hymeniferom fungus 

 with peridia short, crowded, wide mouthed, crenulate on the margin, 

 the spores subglobose, orange yellow, .0008-. 001 of an inch broad , 

 teleutosporous fundus with sori mostly hypophyllous, rarely a few epi- 

 phyllous, scattered, at first covered by the epidermis, at length exposed, 

 subpulverulent, black, the spores elliptical or oblong-elliptical, obtuse, 

 substriate, minutely rough, scarcely constricted at the septum, .0012- 

 .0016 of an inch long, .0008-. 0009 of an inch broad, the pedicel 



very short. , . . tt* i. 



Living leaves of Ferula multifida and Peucedanum simplex. Utah, 



May and June. 



