1919 ] Blasdale: Uredinales of California 107 



vol. 2, p. 231, 1910) also obtained aecia on potted plants of A. Fraseri 

 (Pursh.) Lindl., which he had infected with C. columnaris from Nova 

 Scotia, and Professor Frazier found aecia identical with those obtained 

 by Arthur on Abies balsamea at Picto, Nova Scotia. In California 

 Meinicke has collected similar aecia on Abies concolor Lindl. at Lake 

 Tahoe, and on A. magnifica Murray at Heckel's, Lassen County. 



Telia on Vaccinium ovatum Pursh. and V. parvifolium Smith, 

 Santa Cruz, Marin, Mendocino and Humboldt counties; on V. mem- 

 branaceum Pursh., Tahoe National Forest (Meinicke) ; on V. Chandleri 

 Jepbon. Mount Eddy (Copeland). 



COLEOSPORIUM LEV. 

 Ann. sci. nat, I, Bot., vol. 8, p. 373, 1847. 



Aecia definite, erumpent ; peridium colorless. Uredinia erumpent, 

 pulverulent, spores in chains. Telia waxy, indefinite, liberated by 

 disintegration of host only. Heteroecious. 



8. Coleosporium Bletiae Diet. II, III 



Hedwigia, vol. 37, p. 218, 1898. 



On Plia.jus Wallichii Lindl. Reported by Arthur (N. A. Flora, 

 vol. 7, p. 86) on plants imported from Japan, but not found by the 

 writer although frequent inquiries were made for it. 



9. Coleosporium Campanulae (Pers.) Lev. 0, I, II, III 



Syn, Fung., p. 217, 1801; Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 3, Bot., vol. 8, p. 373, 1847. 



The aecial stage not known from California, but found on the 

 Atlantic Coast on Finns rigida and P. virginiana. 



Uredinia and telia on Campanula persicifoli-a Linn., San Francisco. 

 Probably a recent introduction as it was first noted by the writer in 

 1915 on the Exposition grounds. 



10. Coleosporium Madiae, Cooke. II, III 



Grevillea, vol. 7, p. 102, 1879; Sydow, Ann. Myeologiei, vol. 2, p. 30, 1904. 



Aecial stage probably represented by Peridermium calif ornicum 

 Arth. and Kern (see no. 35). 



Uredinia and telia on Madia capitata Nutt., M. anomala Greene, 

 M. dissitiflora (Nutt.) T. and G., M. elegans Don., M. sativa Molina, 

 M. Nuttallii Gray, Centromadia pungens (H. and A.) Greene, and 

 Zonanthis corymbosa (DC) Greene. Very common throughout the 

 central portion of the state. 



