Univ. 148, 732; Rav. Fungi Am. 481; Vesterg. Micr. Rar. Sel. 633; 

 Barth. Fungi Columb. 2626, 3328; Barth, N. Am. Ured. 107. 



40. Gymnosporangium bermudianum (Farlow) Earle; Seym. & 



Earle, Econ. Fungi 249. 1893 

 Aecidium bermudianum Farlow, Bot. Gaz. 12: 206. 1887. 

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

 Aecia appearing on globoid or subreniform galls of reddish 

 brown luster (6-12 mm. in diameter), cylindric, 0.8-1.5 mm. 

 high by 0.1-0.3 in diameter; peridium fragile, soon becoming lacer- 

 ate, often to base, spreading but not recurved; peridial cells nar- 

 rowly obovate in face view, 18-25 X 50-75,/t 

 linear-rhomboid in side view, 1 5-1 8/1 thick, 

 outer wall thin, about 1.5,11, smooth, inner wall 

 thicker, 3-5/*, moderately rugose with closely 

 set ridge-like papillae of varying length; aecio- 

 spores globoid or polygonal, 16-19X19-39/*, 

 wall dark chestnut-brown, 2-2.5/4 thick, mi- 

 Telia following the aecia on the same galls, 

 few, irregularly disposed, pulvinate, low, round- Fig. 36. G. ber- 

 ish, 0.4-0.7 mm. across, dark cinnamon-brown; mudianum. 

 teliospores 2-celled, ellipsoid, 18-25 X 34-50//, 

 rounded or somewhat narrowed both above and below, slightly 

 constricted at the septum, wall cinnamon-brown, thin, about i/i; 

 pores 2 in each cell, near the septum. 



For the aecia and telia: Juniperus barbadensis L. (Sabina 

 barbadensis Small), /. bermudiana L. (S. bermudiana 

 Antoine), /. lucayana Britton, /. virginiana L. (S. virgini- 

 ana Antoine). 

 Type locality: Bermuda, on Juniperus virginiana. 

 Distribution: Along the gulf coast from Mississippi to Florida, 

 and in the Bermuda and Bahama Islands. 

 Illustration: Bot. Gaz. 49: pi. 21, f. 1. 

 Exsiccati: Seym. & Earle, Econ. Fungi 249, 250. 



Excluded or Doubtful Species 

 Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe, Bot. Mag. 17 2 : 3 4, hyponym. 



1903. On Pyrus sinensis Lindl. and Cydonia vulgaris (L.) Pers. 



Doubtful, the form on P. sinensis may be G. japonicum. 



Gymnosporangium Sabinum Fries, Syst. Myc. 3: 507. 1832. 



Not a Gymnosporangium. 



