﻿1903] RAVENELIAS OF THE UNITED STATES I2g 



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217. 1886; Atkinson, Some fungi from Alabama, Bull. Cornell Univ. Sci- 



' ence 3 : 20. 1897. 



Raveiiclia epiphylla Dietel, Hedwigia 3 : i^j-zc^, 59. 1894. 



Sori subepidermal, on both sides of the leaves and on the 

 leaf stems and branches, scattered, crowded or confluent. Ure- 

 dosori small, ochraceous, surrounded by the ruptured epidermis, 

 scattered, usually confined to the leaves; uredospores fulvous to 

 semi-hyaline, walls thin, broadly oval to broadly ovate, verru- 

 cose, 30-40 by 23-26 ft, usual size 34 by 25/1; germ pores 6, 

 in the equator; paraphyses none. Teleutosori on both stems 

 and leaves, scattered or confluent, black-brown ; teleutospore 

 heads chestnut-brown, very variable as to size and shape, smooth, 

 80-115 by 33-45 At thick; 4-7 spores in cross section; cysts 

 hyaline, decurrent into the pedicel ; pedicel short, hyaline. 



On Tephrosia virgtniana : South Carolina, 1876, Ravenel, no. 1251, Thii- 



men Myc. Univ. Fungi Car. ; Rav. Fung. Car. no. 72 ; White Sulphur 



Springs, West Va., no. 705, M. B. Waite ; Oregon, III., Sept. 3. 1886, no, 84, 



M. B. Waiie; Munith, Mich., 1893, G. A, Hicks, no. 1787, Plants of Mich. 



On Tephrosia sp. : South Carolina, Aiken, no. 55, Rav. Fung. Am, 



J i:-xsic. 



On Tephrosia hispidtila: Auburn, Alabama, Sept, 9, 1893. Duggar; 

 Auburn, Ala., Sept.-Oct. i8gi, /)z<^^ar and Atkinson; Oct. 11, 1891, no. 

 2208, Atkinson; Center, N. Y., Peck, no. '^6'^, Ell. N. A. Fung. 



On Tephrosia spicata: Lake City, Florida, Oct. 16, 1899, no. 17, Fungi 

 of Fla., H, H. Hume; Auburn, Alabama, no. 2146, Atkinson, 



In all specimens of this species examined the uredospores were typical 

 of the species and distinctly different from the uredospores of P. similis on 

 Brongniartia. 



Pleoravenelia indigoferae (Transz.). — Fig. ig. 



Ravenelia indigoferae Transz., Dietel in Hedwigia 33:3691 1894; Sac- 

 cardo, Syll. Fung, 11 ; 211. 1895. 



Sori subepidermal, on both sides of the leaves and on the 

 leaf stems and branches. Uredosori sparse in material exam- 

 ined, pale yellow, small; uredospores oval to globose, 20-23 

 % 23-27 /x,^ epispore with sparse short prickles, light yellow; 

 germ pores many, scattered ; paraphyses many, clavate to sub- 

 capitate, brownish, walls of heads dark brown, contents faintly 

 brown, 20-25 /x; stipe hyaline, 50-80 by 7/^. Teleutosori 

 black, small, scattered on the leaves ; on the stems and branches 



