186 
100, 
101. 
104. 
105. 
106. 
KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
Coleosporium vernonize, B. & C. 
Grev. Vol. III, p. 57. 
On Vernonia baldwinia, Manhattan, Aug. 10, 1891, C. H. Thompson; Rooks 
county, Sept. 2, 1891, and Oct. 2, 1896. 
This species, the golden rust of ironweed, is quite common where its host 
is found on cultivated ground, but it cannot be said to be very de- 
structive. 
PUCCINIASTRUM, Otth, 
Pucciniastrum crotonis (Cke.) De Toni, II, III. 
1888: Sacce. Syll. Fung. VII, p. 763. 
On Croton monanthogynus, Rooks county, Sept. 7, 1887, and Aug. 20, 
1896, II, III; Manhattan, Aug. 1884 and Oct. 1887, W. A. Kellerman. 
On Croton texensis, Rooks county, Sept. 4, 1887, and Russell county, 
Sept. 1895, II, III, Barth. 
This species is quite rare and not very destructive to its hosts. 
JECIDIUM, Pers. 
/Ecidium abundans, Pk. 
1878: Bot. Gazette, p. 34. 
On Symphoricarpos vulgaris, Manhattan, June 1886, W. A. Kellerman. 
Rare; not found in western Kansas. 
/Eeidiums eculi, E. & K. 
1884: Bull. Tor. Bot. Club, p. 114. 
On leaves of A®sculus arguta, Manhattan, May 6, 1888, Kellerman and 
Swingle (in Kan. Fungi, No.1); Pottawatomie county, May 1892, A. 8. 
Hitchcock; Chase county, May 1888, M. A. Carleton; Riley county, 
May 1885, M. A. Carleton; Rooks county, May 25, 1897. 
Rather common where the host is found and sometimes quite destructive. 
The foliage on several small trees in Rooks county was much damaged 
in 1897. Type locality, Manhattan. 
Eeidium alliicolum, Wint. 
1885: Hedwigia, p. 260. 
On Allium reticulatum, Rooks county, June 4, 1889; Sedgwick county, 
May 19, 1892, M. A. Carleton. (This specimen is labeled in the agricul- 
tural college herbarium A®. convallariz, Schum.!) 
Very rare; no other records of its occurrence in the state. 
sEcidium anisotomes, Reich. 
1865: Ber. d. Akad. zu Wien, p. —. 
On Peucedanum fceniculaceum, Manhattan, May 1892, A. C. Pike, and 
May 1893, J. B. S. Norton. 
Eeidium apoeyni, Schw. 
1822: Syn. Fung. Carol. p. 68. 
On Apocynum cannabinum, Manhattan, May and June 1886, W. A. Kel- 
lerman. . 
Rare and not destructive. 
107. ‘®cidium asterum, Schw. 
1822: Syn. Fung. Carol. p. 67. 
On Aster salicifolius, Rooks county, June 1889. 
On Aster sp., Riley county, May 1885, and Chase county, May 1888, M. A. 
Carleton, 
