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III. Telia amphigenous, scattered, small oblong or 

 linear, soon naked, blackish-brown. Teliospcwea elliptical, sub- 

 clavate or oblong, 18-22 by 25-40/*, apex mostly rounded, base 



rounded or narrowed; wall chest- 

 nut-brown, thickened at apex, 

 smooth; pedicel persistent, col- 

 oured, usually shorter than spore. 

 On Anthoxanthum oderatum 

 L., Pictou 



Teliaspores oi Puccinia 



anthoxanthi species from North America, nor 



has it been reported as far as I am aware. It was found. in 

 only one place near Pictou in 1909 and 1910. 



Pucciriia tomipara Trel. 



0. Pycnia epiphyllous, in small groups, honey-yellow, 

 punctiform. 



1. Aecia hypophyllous, in orbicular groups, crowded; 

 peridium somewhat low, margin slightly revolute, erose. 

 Aeciospores globoid, 20-2 5/x; wall thin, colourless, verrucose. 



II. Uredinia epiphyllous, scattered, rounded or oblong, 

 small cinnamon. Urediniospores globose or sub-globose, 22-27;*, 

 echinulate, yellowish-brown. 



III. Telia epiphyllous, mostly oblong, remaining covered 

 by the epidermis, compact, black. Teliospores oblong or oblong- 

 clavate, 16-24 by 35-54/* ,mostly truncate at the apex, some- 

 times rounded or acute, narrowed below, not constricted at the 

 septum ; wall chestnut-brown, somewhat thickened at the apex, 

 smooth; pedicel very short. 



Aecia on Clematis virginiana L., New Glasgow, July 6, 

 1909. 



Telia on Bromus ciliaius L., Truro, Sept., 1908, 1909. 

 The collections do not show uredinia. They probably had 

 disappeared before the collections were made. 



