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L. hirta was first described by Schweinitz as Puccinia Lespedeze- 
polystachie, but afterwards, finding this fungus more abundant on JZ. 
vtolacea, he changed the name to Puceinia Lespedezw-violacee. The 
fungus has for many years been referred to the genus Uromyces to 
to which it properly belongs. 
The same author also published a fungus which he found on Z. 
procumbens, giving it the name Puccinia Lespedeze-procumbentis, 
and describing the spores as having a distinct septum after the manner 
of true Puccinia spores. This Puccinia does not appear to have been 
found by subsequent collectors, but the same Uromyces that occurs 
on other Lespedezz is often found on L. procumbens also, and is 
sometimes designated as Uromyces Lespedezw-procumbentis Schw.., 
though this designation is wholly unwarranted by the description of 
Schweinitz’s fungus. Inasmuch as the Uromyces is common to all. 
our Lespedeze it seems best to drop that part of its trivial name that 
implies a specific limitation to its habitat and write Uromyces Les- 
pedeze instead of U. Lespedeze-violacee. 
Uromyces prrirormis Ch. 
As this fungus was reported without description, the following 
characters, kindly furnished by Dr. Cooke, are now given: 
Amphigenous, erumpent; sori linear, sometimes confluent, rather 
pulverulent, purple-brown, margined by the fissured cuticle; pseudo- 
spores pyriform, deep-brown, epispore thickened above; pedicels 
rather short, thick, persistent, colored in the upper portion. 
On Acorus Calamus. 
The species is very closely allied to U. Sparganzi, but appears to 
differ in habit. 
PinEoLaRIA BREVIPES B. & R. 
This occurs with us on both sides of the leaves of Rhus Toxico- 
dendron, and is sometimes found associated with Uredo Toxicodendri 
B. & R., which is probably its Uredo-form. I suppose the latter 
fungus to be the one described in Grevillea 1874, p. 56, as Uromyces 
Toxicodendri B. & R., although it does not well agree with the 
generic character of Uromyces for the pedicels are by-no means per- 
manent, since it is difficult to find one attached even to an immature 
spore. In this respect it is nearer Trichobasis, as a species of which 
_ it was formerly reported. 
PeEzizA ANOMALA Pers. 
This is now generally admitted to be a species of Solenia. Some 
European mycologists consider it the same as S. ochracea, others 
regard it as distinct. The two are kept separate by Fries in his 
new edition of Epicrisis, and I am disposed to follow this arrange- 
ment, for so far as my observation goes they differ constantly in the 
color and shape of the tubes. S. anomala has also a tendency with 
us to grow in tufts, which I have not seen in S. ochracea. 
