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2892, p. 294. (P. Marias-Wilsoni Clinton). Cumberland 

 Mine, La Plata Mts., 12,000 feet, July 15, on Claytonia 

 megarrhiza, n. 1045. 



PUCCINIA CONGLOMERATA (Str.), Schm. & Kze. Crypt. 

 Exsie. No. 191. No. 1057, on Senecio, upper La Plata River, 

 10,000 feet, July 12. Not before reported from America, 

 but the specimens agree closely with Sydow Uredineen, No. 

 461, and with published descriptions. 



PUCCINIA FRAGILIS Tracy & Galloway, Journ. Myc. iv. 20. 

 No. 423 A, teleutospores, 423 B, aecidial stage, on Aren- 

 aria (?) sage plains west of Mancos, July 8. The generic 

 identity of the host could not be determined with certainty. 

 This seems to be the first collection of the secidial stage of 

 this fungus, and we give it the following description: 

 Amphigenous but more abundant below; spots none; 

 pseudoperidia scattered or clustered, cylindrical, length 

 about equal breadth, border narrow, spreading, coarsely 

 lacerate; spores subglobose, light colored, epispore thin, 

 slightly roughened, 16-16xl9ju.. 



PUCCINIA GAYOPHYTI Billings, Bot. King Exp. 414. No. 

 1046, on Gayophytum, Parrott City, July 16. We find no 

 published description of the Uredo stage of this species. 

 Our specimens show the following characters : Amphi- 

 genous ; sori small, round, scattered, yellowish ; spores 

 globose to oval, often somewhat angular, slightly echinu- 

 late, 14-16xl2-14/*. 



PUCCINIA HIERACII (Schum.) Mart. Fl. Mosq. 226. No. 

 72, on Crepis, Mancos, 7,000 feet, June 23. No. 57, on 

 Taraxacum officinale, Mancos, June 23. 



PUCCINIA HOLWAYII Diet, in Hedw. xxxii. 29. I and III 



