( 4 6o) 



by 15-40 cm., extending into and causing some swelling of the 

 smaller branches and twigs arising from the infected areas, some- 

 times appearing on larger branches, usually breaking forth in 

 series along the branch, unevenly disposed, hypertrophied scars of 

 the sori of previous seasons frequently interspersed, somewhat 

 wedge-shaped, often irregular and lacunose, sometimes forked or 

 divided, 2-3 mm. broad by 2-5 mm. long at the base, 7-10 mm. 

 high, dark chestnut-brown; teliospores 2-celled, oblong-ellipsoid, 

 16-22 by 45-55^, rounded or slightly narrowed both above and 

 below, slightly constricted at the septum, wall dark cinnamon- 

 brown, rather thin, i-2,u; pores 1-2 in each cell, near the septum. 



For the aecia: unknown. 

 For the telia : Juniperus virginiana L. 

 Type collected at Santee Canal, S. C, on Jui 

 March 18, 1909, Frank D. Kern. 



Distribution: Along the Atlan 

 to South Carolina. 

 In the 



irgimana, 

 1 New York south 



rally wedge-shaped telia with their rough and irregulai 

 "aces, especially noticeable when expanded, this sp 

 trachysorum but in the character of the hypei 



iembles 



of attacking and spreading along the larger branches. 



26. Gymnosporangium japonicum Sydow, Hedwigia Beib. 38: 



141. 1899 



Roesteliakoreaensis P. Henn. Monsunia 1: 5. 1900. 



Tremella koreaensis Arth. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 1900: 136. 1901. 



Aecia hypophyllous, in crowded or somewhat annular groups, 



on thickened discolored spots, cylindric, 0.4-0.5 



— , mm. in diameter by 2-3 mm. high; peridium soon 



III becoming irregularly lacerate and cancellate often 



WJ! ' ' ase, erect or slightly spreading; peridial cells 



in both face and side views, broadly lanceo- 



or oval in face view, 29-32 by 64-90^, oblong 



:j • 23-32/1 thick, 1 





, the ridges bee 



aing 



much 



higher on side walls and extending cleai 

 outer wall 1.5-2/* thick, inner and side walls 

 5~7/x; aeciospores globoid, 18-21 by 19-23^, wall 

 pale cinnamon-brown, medium, 1.5-2^ thick, 



jus, appearing on gradual fusiform enlargements, 



