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KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
Abundant in one locality, but nevertheless a rare species. It did not 
occur in the same place in 1897 and 1898. Quite destructive. 
Puccinia sydowiana, Dietel, II, ILI. 
1897: Hedwigia, XXXVI, p. 299. 
On Sporobolus asper, Rooks county, Nov. 1892, Feb. 1893, and Mar. 1895 
III, July 1896 and Aug. 1898, Il; Manhattan, Dec. 1892, A. S. Hitch- 
cock; Franklin county, Dec. 1893, Grace Meeker. 
This species is very common and profusely abundant on the host. Some 
seasons it is quite destructive, rendering abortive many plants. It was 
issued in N. A. F. 2887, and in Fungi Col. 48, as Puccinia sporoboli, 
Arth., from which it differs in many ways. Its first appearance under 
the present name was in Syd. Ured. No. 1032, the material of which was 
submitted to Doctor Dietel, who separated it from P. Sporoboli, Arth., 
and gave it specific distinction. In Arth. & Holw. Ured. Ex. et Icones No. 
26, the question is discussed at some length, and a new nomenclature — 
P. vilfee, Arth. & Holw.— has been adopted, which, for the purposes of 
this catalogue, it has been thought best not to follow. 
Puccinia tanaceti, DC. IT, III. 
Flor. Fran. II, p. 222. 
On Artemisia ludoviciana, Manhattan, Sept. 1884, W. A. Kellerman. 
On Artemisia filifolia, Seward county, Oct. 1892, M. A. Carleton. 
This fungus, which is so common in the Rocky Mountain states on many 
species of Artemisia, is very rare in western Kansas. 
Puccinia tanaceti, DC., var. actinella, Web. III. 
1890: Flora of Nebraska, p. 66. : 
On Actinella scaposa, Osborne county, June 10, 1890, Benj. Brown; De- 
ager county, summer of 1892, A. S. Hitchcock; Rooks county, May 
27, 1898. 
This variety, which Professor Webber reports so abundant and destructive 
in western Nebraska, is very rare here, although the host is very com- 
mon. Actinella seaposa (Kansas), and Actinella acaulis (Nebraska), I 
feel quite sure stand for the same plant. 
Puccinia tecta, Ell. & Barth. IL, II. 
1896: Erythea, IV, p. 79. 
On Carex sparganioides, Rooks county, Oct. 7, 1895— type. 
A rare species, found only once. Abundant in that locality. I quote the 
following note from the original description: ‘‘Approaches Puccinia 
angustata, Peck, but differs from that in its paraphysate uredosori and 
in its persistently tectate teleutosori.”’ 
Puccinia triodia, Ell. & Barth. II, III. 
1896: Erythea, IV, p. 3. 
On Triodia purpurea, Rooks county, Aug. 1895-—type; also Aug. 20, 1896. 
Abundant in one place, but not very destructive. On this species I also 
quote from the original description: ‘* Pedicels stout, persistent, some- 
times oblique; . . . closely allied to Puccinia windsoriz, Schw., 
but that has teleutospores distinctly obovate and pedicels much shorter.”’ 
Puccinia variolans, Hark. III. 
1884: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. p. 15. 
On Aplopappus spinulosus, Rooks county, June 15, 1889. 
eg pe rubiginosus, Hamilton county, Oct. 11, 1892, M. A. Carle- 
on. 
