292 Proceedings of Indiana Academy of Science 



In this species the entire inflorescence is reduced to a smutty mass 

 of spores as distinguished from the next following species which attacks 

 only the individual ovaries. In the original description, this species 

 was confused with another on AHstida dichotoma.- 



59. SOROSPORIUM EVERHARTii Ellis & Gall. Jour. Myc. 6:32. 1890. 

 On Poaceae: 



Andropogon vircjinicus L. One mile west of French Lick, October 

 5, 1921. 



60. Sphacelotheca occidentalis (Seym.) Clinton -lour. Myc. 8:141. 



1902. 



Soroponim Ellisii occidentalis Seym.; Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 

 2,265. 1889. 



On Poaceae: 



Andropogon inrcatus. Muhl. In flat sterile place in woods on 

 south side of Lake Maxinkuckee, Marshall County, September 14, 1921. 

 C. C. Beam, 3^,722. 



This species occurs in the individual ovaries of the grass and is 

 doubtless not uncommon, but has not before been recorded so far east. 

 Gl. USTILAGO oxaldis EUis & Tracy, Jour. Myc. 6:77. 1890. 



On Oxalidaceae: 



Oxalis stricta L. Near English, May 24, 1922; near Huntingburg, 

 May 25, 1922. 



This is a species of wide distribution in the eastern half of the 

 United States. The sori cccur in the seeds, the affected ovaries differing 

 only slightly from the normal. Usually all the seed of diseased plants 

 are affected. 



TILLETIACEAE. 



62. DoASSANSiA MARTIANOFFIAXA (Thuem.) Schrot. Krypt. Fl. Sches. 

 3':287. 1887. 



Protomyccs murtiunoffianus Thuem. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 53':207. 

 1878. 



On Zanxichelliaceae: 



I'otdniogeton sp. Edge of Bass Lake, Starke County, .June 18, 1921. 



An inconspicuous species forming yellowish white spots on the 

 leaves which later become reddish brown. 

 6.3. ExTYLOMA serotixum Schroet. Bietr. Biol. Pfl. 2:4o7. 1877. 



On Boraginaceae: 



Mertensia virginica (L.) DC. Near Harrodsburg, May 7, 1921. 

 .J. M. Van Hook 3,865. 



64. TiLLETiA corona Schrib. Tracy & Earle, Bull. Torrey Club. 2.3:210. 

 1896. 



On Poaceae: 



Hamalocenchrus virgixicus (Willd.) Britt. Northeast of Fair- 

 mount, October 3, 1915. C. C. Deam 19, 3H; One mile southwest of 

 French Lick, October 5, 1921. 



This species causes rather conspicuous enlarged and deformed 

 ovaries, only occasional ones in the inflorescence being infected. 



= Cf. Jackson, H. S. Sorosporium Ellisii Wint., a Composite species. Bull. Torrey 

 Club. 35: 148. 1908. 



