REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 103 
HELICOSPORIUM ELLIPTIOUM 2. Sp. 
Tufts elliptical or oblong, sometimes confluent or effused, 
greenish-brown or brown; flocci intricately and somewhat 
reticulately branched, colored, septate, the articulations 
three to five times as long as broad; spores very long, 
closely coiled in about eight volutions, forming ellipsoid 
masses, greenish-yellow, containing many nuclei. 
With the last, than which it is much darker colored. The 
flocci appear to anastomose as in the capillitium of Stemon- 
a1) The spores are not distinctly septate. (Plate 2, figs. 
9-12. 
SPORIDESMIUM CONCINNUM B. & C. 
Decaying wood. Buffalo. September. Clinton. 
PucoIntA VERATRI Clinton n. sp. 
Spots indefinite, yellowish; sori scattered, small, brown ; 
spores elliptical, often irregular, constricted in the middle, 
easily separating at the septum, pale, .001’ long, .00065’ 
broad ; peduncle very short. 
Lower surface of leaves of Veratrum viride. Buffalo. 
July. Clinton. (Plate 2, figs. 13 and 14.) 
Under slight pressure the spore readily separates into two 
parts as in P. Lobelia. 
Uromyces Litit Clinton n. sp. 
Sori amphigenous, small, scattered, surrounded or partly 
covered by the ruptured epidermis, brown; spores obovate, 
rough, .0011’-.0015’ long, .0008’-.001’ broad; often with a 
slight apiculus at the apex ; peduncle very short. 
Leaves of Lilium Canadense. Buffalo. July. Clinton. 
The roughness of the spore appears to be produced by 
little pits or depressions. The species is related to U. apicu- 
losa and U. Huphorbie. 
Uromyces PHASEOLI Strauss. 
Leaves of Phaseolus. Yonkers. Dr. H. C. Howe. 
I have seen no description of this species and have deter- 
mined the specimens by comparison with those received from 
Dr. Curtis under the above name. 
UsTILAGO SYNTHERISM& Schvo. 
In the sheaths of Cenchrus tribuloides. Center and Port 
Jervis. September. . 
