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Teliaspores oi Puccinia 

 anthoxanthi 



III. Telia ampbigenous, scattered, small oblong or 

 linear, soon naked, blackisb-brown. Teliospores elliptical, sub- 

 clavate or oblong, 18-22 by 25-40^, apex mostly roimded, base 



romided or narrowed; wall chest- 

 nut-bro-wn, tbickened at apex, 

 smootb; pedicel persistent, col- 

 oured, usually sborter tban spore. 

 On Anthoxanthum oderatum 

 L., Pictou 



' Sydow does not report this 

 ^'pecies from North America, nor 

 has it been reported as far as T am aware. It was found in 

 only one place near Pictou in 1909 .and 1910. 



Puccinia tomipara Trel. 



0. Pycnia epii3hyllous, in small groujDS, honey-yellow, 

 punctiform. 



1. Aecia hypophyllous, in orbicular groups, crowded; 

 peridium somewhat low, margin slightly revolute, erose. 

 Aeciospores globoid, 20-25/*; wall thin, colourless, verrucose. 



II. Uredinia epiphyllous, scattered, roiuided or oblong, 

 small cinnamon. Urediniospores globose or sub-globose, 22-2 7m, 

 echinulate, yellowish-bro^vn. 



III. Telia epiphyllous, mostly oblong, remaining covered 

 by the epidermis, compact, black. Teliospores oblong or oblong- 

 clavate, 16-24 by 3r)-r)4jw , mostly truncate at the apex, some- 

 times rounded or acute, narrowed below, not constricted at the 

 septum ; wall cbestnut-brown, somewhat thickened at the apex, 

 smooth ; pedicel very short. 



Aecia on Clematis virginiana L., New Glasgow, July 6, 

 1909. 



Telia on Bromm cillatns L., Truro, Sept., 1908, 1909. 

 The collections do not show uredinia. They probably had 

 disappeared before the collections were made. 



