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pected to be a peculiar undescribed form first discovered by Professor 
G. F. Atkinson in Alabama, and since by one of the writers on Crate- 
gus spathulata, Cultures of the Roestelia were attempted in the green- 
house on young plants of Crategus transplanted from the woods 
(which afterwards proved to be C. parvifolia), but with negative results. 
Preparations are in progress to make more extended cultures 
another year on C. spathulata, which is oné of the common species of 
haw in the vicinity of Auburn. 
Gymnosporangium globosum is rare at Auburn, Alabama, occasional 
at Starkville, Mississippi (Zacy), and found once at Ocean Springs, 
Mississippi (Earle). A second form of this species, whose characters 
have not yet been fully studied, also occurs in Mississippi. 
Gymnosporangium nidus-avis appears to be quite rare in central 
Alabama, only three specimens having been found the present season, 
all of them the branch form, and none of them producing the peculiar 
fasciation of the branchlets so common in eastern Massachusetts. 
They appear very early in the south, the teleutospores germinating 
during the rains of the latter half of February. A marked feature of 
the branch form of this species, readily distinguishing it from G. ¢la- 
vpes, is the peculiar orange colored stain left on the somewhat hard- 
ened inner bark of the host ; this is perceptible even in specimens long 
collected. The species seems to have a wide distribution, in the south 
commencing with South Carolina (Ravenel, Fungi Car. no. 87, dis- 
tributed as G. Juniper’), and extending through Georgia (Ravenel, 
ee, Amer. nO. 791, distributed as G. conicum), Alabama, ae Mis- 
“ane A aan form appears in the collection of the Division of 
kindly = ‘athology and Physiology, which Professor Galloway has 
way a i us to examine, under the name of G. Juniperinum, oF 
redericksburg, Texas, by F. Grasso in 1893 and again in 
ele It resembles closely certain foliicolous forms of G. clavipes, but 
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es na ossible from the entire Gulf region in order to determine 
ully the limits of th : : ? he is 
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tribution, se species as well as their geograp 
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the ‘e ecies of the list, Gymnosporangium Bermudianum, has 
in its oh aly distribution in the Gulf region, and is as remarkable 
Islands : ey as in its distribution. It is known from the Bermuda 
» Where it was first collected by Professor Farlow and described 
