FUNGI COLLECTED BY T. S. BRANDEGEE IN LOWER CALI- 

 FORNIA, IN 1889. 



BY H. W. HARKNESS. 



Batareea phalloides (Dicks.) — Magdalena Island. 



PoDAXON CARCINOMALE (Desv.) — Sail Gregoi'io. 



TuLOSTOMA MAMMOSUM (Micli.) — San Gregorio. 



TuLOSTOMA OBESUM Cke. & Ellis. — Purisima, collected by 

 C. D. Haines. 



DoASSANSiA Alismatis (Nees ) — On Ecliinodorus rostratus 

 at Comondu. 



PucciNiA aLNOTHER.E Yize. — On (Enotliera cardiophylla, 

 Santa Maria. 



PucciNiA MALVACEARUM Mont. — Ou Abufilou, San Gregorio. 



PucciNiA ORNATA, sp. nov. (Plate XII.) Sori minute, 

 liypopliyllous, pulvinate, dark brown: uredospores mixed 

 with the telentospores, at first round or obovate, echinate 

 becoming oblong or oval, and nearly smooth, about 20 M- 

 in diameter: telentospores dark brown, oblong, constricted 

 in the middle, rounded at each end: epispore thickened at 

 apex, sparingly tuberculate, 50-70x30-40 m. : pedicel about 

 twice as long as the spore, stout, hyaline, flexuous, thick- 

 ened and lobulate at base, above furnished with about three 

 whorls of branching hyaline processes as long or a little 

 longer than its diameter. — On Jiving leaves of Tecoma stems, 

 Comondu. 



Belated to P. Medusce Speg., but differing much in size, 

 the length and appendages of the j)edicels, etc. The telen- 

 tospores in this, as in very many other species of Puccinia, 

 are sometimes 1-celled. 



2d Seb., Vol. II. December 20, 1889. 



