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KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
On Elymus virginicus, Manhattan, July 1891, C. H. Thompson. 
This species in its gross characteristics much resembles Puccinia rubigo- 
vera (DC.); rare and inconspicuous, doing little damage to its host. 
Puecinia nigrescens, Peck, II, III. 
1878: Bot. Gazette, p. 35. 
On Salvia azurea grandiflora, Rooks county, Sept. 1887; Manhattan, Sept. 
1888, Kellerman and Swingle; June 1891, II, Thompson. 
On Salvia lanceolata, Rooks county, Sept. 1887 and Oct. 1896; Manhat- 
tan, Oct. 1883, W. A. Kellerman; June 1889, Kellerman and Swingle. 
Locally this is a truly intermittent species, as it may prevail in great 
abundance one season and not make its appearance again in the same 
community for five or more years. 
Puccinia obtecta, Peck, II, III. 
1885: Parasitic Fungi of Illinois, p. 196. . 
On Scirpus lacustris, Manhattan, Oct. 1893, M. A. Carleton (Ured Am. 
No. 14); Wamego, Pottawatomie county, Oct. 1893, Barth. 
On Scirpus pungens, Manhattan, March 1893, Carleton. 
This interesting and well-defined species is of rare occurrence and does 
little harm to its hosts. 
. Puecinia panici, Diet. II, III. 
1895: Erythea, Vol. ITI, p. 80. 
On Panicum virgatum, Rooks county, Sept. 1892 and Sept. 1893; Phil- 
lips county, Sept. 1895; Pawnee county, Oct. 1887, Kellerman and 
Swingle; Manhattan, Sept. 1892, C. H. Thompson; Stafford county, 
Oct. 1892, M. A. Carleton. 
This species, which has been recently separated from P. emaculata, Schw. 
by Doctor Dietel, is quite common on this host in many parts of the 
state, and is often associated on the same leaves with Uromyces gram- 
inicola, Burrill. 
2. Puccinia phragmitis, (Schum.) Korn. II, III. 
1876: Hedwigia, p. 179. 
On Phragmites communis, Hamilton county, Oct. 1892, M. A. Carleton. 
On Spartina cynosuroides, Rooks county, Aug. and Novy. 1895, also Aug. 
1897; Pottawatomie and Clay counties, Oct. 1893, Barth.; Manhattan, 
Mar. 1888, Kellerman and Swingle; Sedgwick county, Mar. 1888, M. A. 
Carleton; McPherson county, July 1892, A. S. Hitchcock; Johnson 
county, Aug. 1892, M. A. Carleton. 
This species is one of our most noticeable grass rusts. On Spartina in 
many cases it covers the sheaths and leaves in the III with a nearly 
solid coat of black. 
Syn.: Puccinia sparganioides, Ell. & Barth., Erythea, IV, p. 2, on leaves 
of Carex sparganioides, will have to be abandoned, as careful examina- 
tions show it to be P. phragmitis on short, sedge-like leaves of Spartina | 
cynosuroides. Issued erroneously in N. A. F. 3475 and Fungi Col. 1072. 
Puccinia physalidis, Pk. I. 
1879: Bot. Gazette, p. 218. 
On Physalis lanceolata, Rooks county, June 1891; Cloud county, June 
1895, M. A. Carleton: Osborne county, June 1894, C. L. Shear; Man- 
hattan, July 1893, J. B.S. Norton; Saline county, May 1893, A. W. 
Jones. 
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