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 NEW SPECIES OF KANSAS FUNGI.— I. 



By J, B. Ei/iiis AND EijAM Bartholomew. 



Poly poms cryptopus. On the ground in sandy pastures 

 attached to dead grass roots. Rooks Co., Kan., July 24, 

 1895 (No. 1800). 



Pileus orbicular, 3-4 cm. diam., grayish white, margin very 

 thin, involute-repand or evenly incurved, smooth, or slightly 

 wrinkled but not scaly. Stipe 1^2 cm. long, almost entirely 

 subterranean, slightly swelled at the base, thickened above to 

 about 1 cm. or less at its attachment to the decurrent hyme- 

 nium. Pores about | mm. diam. by 1| mm. in depth, mostly 

 subaugular, margin uneven, covered with a subgranular 

 tomentum. Spores white, nucleate, obtuse or acuminate-ellip- 

 tical, 5-7 X 3-4 //. 



A fine, well marked species very abundant in one locality, 

 peculiar in its habitat, looking like small whitish discs lying 

 flat on the ground ! 



Piiccinia clavispora. On leaves of Andropogon nutans. 

 Phillips Co., Kan., Aug. 30, 1895 (No. 1911). 



II and III. Amphigenous. Sori linear, at first covered by 

 the yellowish epidermis, then naked, 1 mm. to 1 cm. long. 

 Uredospores obovate, 20-40xl8-25;U, subechinulate, rough- 

 ened, with stout club-shaped paraphyses and stout but decid- 

 uous pedicels. Teleutospores clavate, 40-60x18-22/^, con- 

 stricted above the middle, the upper cell subglobose or 

 short-elliptical and darker; the lower paler and gradually 

 attenuated below into the very stout pedicel. Epispore 

 smooth, thickened and rounded at the apex. 



From P. omnivora, E. & E., this differs in its longer and 

 broader, more deeply constricted teleutospores and very short 

 almost obsolete pedicels. 



Puccinia tecta. On leaves of Carex sparganioides. 

 Rooks Co., Kan., Oct. 7, 1895 (No. 1972). 



II and III. Hypophyllous, thickly scattered along the 

 entire leaf. Uredosori soon rupturing the epidermis and 



