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In short the whole aspect of the variety is more grape-like and for 
this reason I suggest the name 4. guinguefolia, var. vitacea.—E. B. 
KNERR, Midland College, Atchison, Kansas. 
Miscellaneous notes.—In May, 1892, I collected specimens of 
Oxalis acetosella L. having the whole blossom the same reddish color 
that usually veins the petals. These specimens were found in only 
one place on the western side of the Green mountains, just east of 
Manchester, Vermont. 
[have found Hypericum Canadense VL. var. majus Gray, very abund- 
ant in southern Vermont. 
I have found Vermont specimens of Scuéel/aria lateriflora L. to be 
slightly pubescent as a rule. The corolla of my Vermont $pecimens 
of Stachys aspera is also slightly pubescent. 
Prof. Burrill in the Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of 
Natural History, 11, 408, describes the Illinois specimens of Uncinula 
circinata C. & P. as “hypophyllous.” In Vermont specimens I find 
that quite a percentage of diseased leaves have the fungus on the 
upper as well as the under side. In the same article, p. 419, he says 
of Microsphera erineophila Peck: “This peculiar species is not un- 
common in southern Illinois. So far as is known it has not been 
collected elsewhere.” I had the good fortune to find a very limited 
amount of the above mentioned fungus in Newfane, Windham co., 
Vermont, in October, 1892. 
I have found a few parasitic fungi on hosts not in Farlow & 
Seymour’s “Host Index.” Phylactinia suffulta (Reb.) Sacc. seems to 
have no choice of hosts whatever, provided that moisture and a little 
nourishment be furnished. I found it on the following additional hosts: 
Hamamelis Virginiana, Fraxinus Americana, Betula lutea, Alnus 
‘ncana. On September 23, 1892, I placed specimens of Phylactinia 
suffulta, found on leaves of Fraxinus Americana, in a book to dry. 
There were so many specimens in the book that they kept it moist 
Most of the time and I neglected to thoroughly dry it for nearly three 
weeks. On October 13th I found nearly mature perithecia of 
Phylactinia suffulta scattered all over the pages of the book and the 
label, which I had placed with the specimens. By applying KOH 
to the paper and scraping, threads of mycelium were obtained, showing 
that the fungus had grown on the damp paper. The asci were formed 
at the time I examined the plant but no spores. A similar thing took 
place with another set of P. suffulta specimens that were kept slightly 
moist for a time. 
: Sehr op ate Aini (DC.) Winter was collected in Newfane, Vermont, 
n Betula lutea and Ostrya Virginica. Uromyces Hyperici was found in 
