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NEAV KANSAS FUNGI. ^^-?^!>gn 



By J. B. EiiLis and Elam Baetholomew. 



The following thirty-two species of new fungi, with the 

 exception of the first one on the list, were found by the 

 junior author in Rooks County, Kansas, and the fact that he 

 has found 130 additional new species in the same locality, 

 leads to the conclusion that this region, which is situated 

 midway between the Missouri River on the east and the 

 Rocky Mountains on the west, at an altitude of 2000 feet 

 above the sea, is unusually rich in many species, apparently 

 rare, or not indigenous to other parts of the country. 



Polyporus Eansensis. On the base of a rotten stump, 

 Louisville, Pottawatomie Co., Kan., Oct., 1893 (No 1177). 



Pileus orbicular, convexo-convex including the hymenium, 

 10 cm. across, light brown, minutely appressed-squaraulose, 

 margin thin and acute. Stipe 10-12 cm. high, 2 cm. thick, 

 colored like the pileus or a little lighter; glabrous or nearly 

 so, ^ its length brownish, — black below, subequal or sub- 

 attenuated above. Flesh of the pileus and stipe milk white, 

 firm, suberose-carnose. Pores of medium size, (^ mm.diam., 

 2-2^ mm. long) round or subangular, margin even, granu- 

 lose-tomentose, decurrent. Spores white, elliptical, 6-8x5//, 

 on stout, cylindrical basidia 6-8/1 thick. This is one of our 

 finest North American species. 



Puccinia Kansensis. On leaves of Buchloe daciyloidesj 

 Sept. 18, 1894 (No. 1577). 



II and III. Sori amphigenous or mostly epiphyllous, 

 sparsely scattered, very small, sublinear to linear by conflu- 

 ence. Uredosori soon appearing through the ruptured 

 epidermis which falls away leaving the spore-mass mostly 

 superficial. Uredospores subglobose or ovate, 16-20x14-1 6 yu, 

 epispore smooth but irregular, thick (about 2-3/f) hyaline; 

 nucleus consisting of coarse, bright golden-yellow, granular 

 matter. Teleutosori almost wholly superficial. Teleuto- 

 spores bright yellowish-brown, short-elliptical, rounded, 



Ertthea, Vol. IV., No. 1 [2 January, 1896]. 



