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BRIEFKR ARTICLES. 



Erythraa Pringleana Wittr. nov. spec— Planta annua, subparva, 

 8-21 cm. alta, paullulum ramosa, glabra; foliis omnibus brevioribus 

 quam internodiis; foliis innmis non rosulatis, ovatis apice acutato, 

 brevissime pedunculatis, minimis, 2-3 mm. longis; foliis inferioribus 

 lanceolatis, 3-6 mm. longis; foliis mediis et superioribus lineari-sub- 

 ulatis, 6-15 mm. longis; floribus longe pedunculatis, pedunculis ple- 

 rumque longioribus quam floribus; sepalis eadem fere longitudine vel 

 paullo longioribus quam tubo corolla; hoc tertia fere parte breviore 

 quam laciniis limbi; his 7-10 mm. (plerumque 8 mm.) longis, ovatis 

 apice paullulum crenulato; corolla emarcida laciniis limbi contortis 

 persistente, fructus includente; antheris staminum brevioribus quam 

 filamentis; genuine eadem fere longitudine vel paullulo longiore 

 quam stylo stigmateque. 



Mexico: in collibus prope Guadalajara i8,\88 legit cl. C. G. Pringle, 

 (no. 2595). 



Haud impossibile mihi videtur hanc speciem cum Erythnea tetiui- 



foli 



1844, ad exemplana prope Guadalajara 



lecta, manco in modo descripta, identicam esse. Nomen specificum 

 "tenuifolia" tamen secundum legem prioritatis non est retinendum- 

 quiacl. Grisebaeh Erythroeam alteram (e Hungaria et Gallia) jam anno 

 1839 SI 'L> hoc nomine descripsit.— Veit Witt rock, Stockholmia mense 



) 



[I 



distributed as " Mien 



Schultesia Mexicana 



Watson, n. sp., soon to be published.— C. G. Pringle.] 



spec 



The illustrations of 



two new species of Montana fungi described last month, p. 47, were 

 received after the number was in press. At the authors' request they 

 are now published with the accompanying 



Explanation of Plate X. — Sporidesmium sorisporioirfes Ellis & 

 Anders. 8, fungus about natural size on dead wood of Populus 

 tremuloides; 9, small mass of spores superimposed on the hyaline? 

 semiamorphous mycelium, from the swelling up and internal division 

 of the elongate ends of which the spore-masses are developed; 10, two 

 mature spore-masses, A having become quite free from the mycelium. 



Aecidium Liatridis Ellis & Anders, n, portion of leaf of Liatris 

 punctata about natural size showing a patch of the fungus; 12, a small 

 patch considerably magnified; 13, a perfect tube (cup) more highly 

 magnified. At A is shown a cup that has gradually broken down to 

 almost the surface of leaf; 14, four spores; 15, several cells of host 



