(35o) 



oval, unequal in size, averaging 20 x 16 ,«, subsmooth but 

 faintly reticulate, wall rather thick, about i}4 ,«• 



II. Uredospores not seen. 



III. Teleutosori hypophyllous on indefinite yellowish areas, 

 scattered or sometimes confluent, large, 1 x ^ mm., oval, 

 long covered by the thin epidermis, finally free and conspic- 

 uous, dark brown, nearly black ; teleutospores dark brown, 

 oval, ends rounded, apex not thickened, slightly constricted, 

 epispore thick, opake, roughened with prominent rounded 

 tubercles, stalk colorless, fragile, often broken away. 



On Sanicula bifiinnata, Corvallis, Oregon, Apr. 14, 1899, 

 Moses Craig. 



This is very distinct from Puccinia sanicidae Grev. It 

 approaches P. -pimpinellae (Strauss) Link, but differs in the 

 strongly tuberculate teleutospores, the more conspicuous teleu- 

 tosori and in the smoother aecidiospore and different markings 

 of the pseudoperidial cells. 



Rhopographus Bakeri sp. nov. 



Stromata subsuperficial, elliptic, sometimes confluent, black, 

 about 1-15^ x yi~% mm., acigerous cavities 2 or 3 to several 

 in each stroma, subprominent ; asci cylindrical, about 40-50 x 

 8 11 ; paraphyses thread-like ; ascospores distichous, subcy- 

 lindric, fuscous, 3-septate, strongly constricted, one medial 

 cell often enlarged, about 16 x 4 /-*. 



On leaves of some unknown grass, Massinga, near Santa 

 Marta, Colombia, South America, Nov. 17, 1898, C. F. 

 Baker, no. 94. 



Podosporium Bakeri sp. nov. 



Scattered or sometimes densely cespitose in crowded, ob- 

 conic masses; stromata dark brown, nearly black, clavate, 

 j4-i mm. high, 40-60 ft or by confluence 200-500// thick, 

 of closely compacted fuscous hyphae with free widely- 

 spreading ends that are 40-60 x 8 // and once or twice sep- 

 tate with apex obtusely rounded, occurring on all parts of 

 the stroma but more abundant apically ; conidia acrogenous 

 and pleurogenous, stipitate, obovate, 3-septate, apex truncate, 

 dark fuscous, minutely roughened, about 40-60 x 12-15 /i, 

 tapering below to the slender once or twice septate stalk, 

 which is smooth, light fuscous, 50-100 x 4 n. 



On dead stems of some woody vine, near Bonda, Colom- 

 bia, South America, Dec, 1898, C. F. Baker, no. 99. 



