60 ‘WENTY-EIGHTH REPORT ON THE STATE MuSEUM. 
straight or slightly curved, subfusiform, pale, with two or 
three colored central cells and a hyaline cell at each extrem- 
ity, .0006’-.0007’ long exclusive of the single short some- 
times deciduous apical bristle; pedicels slender, hyaline, 
about as long as the colored part of the spore. | 
Under surface of fallen oak leaves, Qwercus alba. Buf.- 
falo. Clinton. May. 
The apical hyaline cell is somewhat elongated and 
abruptly contracted into the short straight erect bristle. 
The species is allied to P. hysteriiformis, from which it dif- 
fers in its much paler spores, more numerous orbicular pus- 
tules and absence of spots or in having its indefinite spots 
not at all concentrically divided. 
SEPTONEMA BICOLOR %. SD. 
Sori small, scattered, varying in color from yellowish to 
blackish, generally dark olivaceous with a paler or yellow- 
ish center; spores elliptical-oblong, somewhat irregular ; 
multicellular, at length rough and opaque. 
Decorticated surface of wood. Forestburgh. September. 
The species is similar in habit to S. spilomeuwm, but the 
threads of spores are coarser, the sori are different in color 
and the spores are both transversely and vertically septate, 
making them multicellular, although this is seen with diffi- 
culty except in the younger spores. 
SPORIDESMIUM LEPRARIA Berk. 
Decaying wood. Sandlake, Rensselaer county. 
PUCCINIA BULLARIA LA. 
Stems of Sanicula. New Baltimore. Howe. 
Puccrntia SMILACIS Schv. 
Leaves of Smilax rotundifolia. ShelterIsland. Clinton. 
Puccrnta Dayti Clinton n. sp. 
Spots suborbicular, brown, sori prominent, scattered or 
confluent, brown; spores oblong-clavate, slightly constricted, 
-0015'—.0023’ long; peduncle slightly colored, one-half to 
wholly as long as the spore. 
Leaves of Lysimachia ciliata. Buffalo. Clinton. 
Very closely related to P. Gerardii, differing chiefly in 
ine pane color of the spots and sori. Dedicated to Mr. D. 
. Day. 
