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NEW SPECIES OF KANSAS FUNGI.— II. 

 By J. B. Ellis and Elam Bartholomew. 



The following 17 species of new fungi were all found by the 

 junior author in Rooks County, Kansas. 



Puccinia substriata. On leaves and sheaths of Paspalum seta- 

 ceimi, Aug. 20, 1896 (No. 2237). 



II & III. Amphigenous. Uredospores globose or obovate, 19- 

 23x22-30/^- ferruginous, very faintly echinulate in minute (|— 1 mm.) 

 punetiform or elliptical sori, covered by the irregularly ruptured 

 epidermis. Teleutospores, obovate or clavate, rusty brown, distinctly 

 constricted, upper cell mostly broader and very slightly roughened, 

 only moderately thickened at the apex, which is regularly rounded 

 or sometimes flattened, without any distinct papilla, very faintly 

 striate 27-52x19-23/-/., on stout, short (15-20/^), slightly colored 

 pedicels. Sori mostly oblong and about 1 mm, long, covered by the 

 epidermis, which finally splits either along the top of the sorus or 

 oftener along one side, leaving it covered as if by a cap or lid. 



Differs from Puccinia Puspali Tracy and Earle in the shape of the 

 sori, the slightly echinulate uredospores and the thick, short pedicels 

 of the teleutospores. 



Puccinia cryptandri. On leaves of Sporobolus cryptandrics, 

 Sept. 16, 1896 (No. 2264). 



Epiphyllous. Uredosori linear 1 mm. -1 cm. long, narrow, bordered 

 by the longitudinally cleft epidermis, light-brown. Uredospores 

 globose 20-24/^ diam., or elliptical, 25-30x20-23/^, yellowish-brown 

 faintly aculeate. Teleutospores in sori like those of the uredospores, 

 but mostly shorter, oblong-elliptical, yellow-brown, constricted at 

 the septum, 35-45x20-23/^.. Epispore smooth, scarcely or only 

 slightly thickened at the apex. Pedicels as long or longer than the 

 spores. 



II very abundant wherever the host occurs, from July to October. 

 Ill very rare. 



Differs from Puccinia sporoboli Arth. principally in its longer and 

 darker colored uredosori. In that species they are a bright orange. 



Erythea, Vol. V, No. 4 [30 April, 1897]. 



