GRIFFITHS : CONCERNING SOME WeEsT AMERICAN FUNGI 211 
gated or polyhedral by compression, but seldom confluent to such 
an extent as to lose their individuality ; about 1 mm. in diameter, 
convex, rounded, and about 0.66 to 1 mm. high, at first covered 
by epidermal tissue and trichomes, but later naked and black ; 
teleutospores oval to obovate, broadly rounded to bluntly pointed 
above, with comparatively thick epispore either thickened or not 
at apex, contents subhomogeneous to irregularly guttulate with in- 
distinct nuclear area, 20 to 25 by 32 to 42; pedicel long, 
stout, hyaline, about 120 « long and 3 y in diameter, with irregular 
thickened areas in wall resembling warty excrescences in optical 
section. 
On Eurotia lanata Mogq., near Lovelock, Nevada, August 10, 
1902. 
Only two or three badly infested plants were found in this 
locality. The species has not been observed elsewhere. 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
