NEW KANSAS FUNGI. 



Puccinia Triodiae. On Triodia purpurea, Eooks Co., 

 Kansas, Aug., 1895 (Bartholomew, No. 1897). 



II and III. Amphigenous. Sori elliptical or oblong; 

 ^-2 mm. long, soon naked, subpulviuate, nearly black. 

 Uredospores mixed with the teleutospores, subglobose, 

 18-22/<, hyaline with a thick, subechinulate epispore at first, 

 then yellow-brown and nearly smooth. Teleutospores 

 elliptical or slightly obovate, scarcely constricted, yellow- 

 brown, 22- 30x19-22 /<; epispore smootli, distinctly thickened 

 at the rounded apex. Pedicels stout, persistent, sometimes 

 oblique, yellowish, 80-90yu long. 



Closely allied to P. Windsoriae, Schw., but that has teleu- 

 tospores distinctly obovate and pedicels much shorter. 



Ceiiangella thujina. On exposed wood of White Cedar 

 post {Thuja occidentalism) Feb., 1894 (No. 1382). 



Gregarious or thickly scattered, patelliform, black, sub- 

 coriaceous, -g-f mm. diam., the opposite sides rolled together 

 when dry so as to resemble a Hysterium. Asci oblong-pyri- 

 form, sessile, 40-20/^, paraphyses united above in a thin 

 blue-black epithecium. Sporidia crowded, obovate, hyaline, 

 uniseptate, strongly constricted at the septum, 14-16x7-8//, 

 the cells elliptical. 



Stictis fusca. On dead branches of Symphoricarpos 

 occidentaiis, Feb., 1894 (No. 1366). 



Immersed, urceolate, orbicular, ^— | mm. diam., excipulum 

 and hymenium olive-black (horn-color within). The white- 

 pruinose, erumpent margin constricted and nearly closed at 

 first, but sooQ with a small round opening exposing the 

 nearly black inner surface of the excipulum. Asci cylindri- 

 cal, 180-200x5-6yu, 8-spored. Paraphyses filiform, 1-l^yu 

 thick, more or less branched above, but scarcely thickened. 

 Sporidia filiform, nucleate, nearly as long as the asci, 1^/x 

 thick. 



Stictis Stigma C. & E. has the dark hymenium but lacks 

 the prominent white margin. S. radi(da and 8. stella.ta 

 which have the same habit differ in their stellate margin. 

 This comes near S. atro-alba, Phil. & Plow., which, however, 



