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result is of special interest since the aecidial host (Myrica) belongs to a family 
far removed from the Pomaceae. The aecidia are of the cupulate type. 
RANZSCHEL” reports the results of cultures carried out from 1911 to 1913. 
During that time the connections of 4 species of Puccinia with their aecidia 
were established for the first time, and confirmatory cultures were made with 
12 other species whose aecidia were known. In each case sowings were made 
on a number of plants besides those infected. Only the new connections are 
given here. Puccinia simplex (Korn) Eriks. and Henn. from Hordeum vulgare 
m 
and O. nar € ecidiospores from this culture produce uredospore 
and teleutospores on Hordeu re. Puccinia Hemere 
emerocallis minor Mill. produced aecidia (Aec. Patrinae P. Henn.) on Patrinia 
Stipae-sibiricae Tranzsch. from sibirica L. produced aecidia (Aec. Sedi- 
Aizoontis Tranzsch.) on Sedum Aizoon L. 
KLEBAHN” reports new hosts fe or Cronartium asclepiadeum (Willd.) Fr. 
and various species of Coleosporium. aig pores of ~ ronartium asclepiadeum 
(Peridermium Cornui Rostr. and Kleb.) w fully sown on Vincetoxicum 
officinale Moench (the usual host), V. ‘fice Reichenb., V. Jaxum Koch, Tro- 
paeolum minus L., T. majus L., T. canariensis Hort. (T. peregrinum L.), T. Lob- 
bianum Hort., Impatiens Balsamina L., and Pedicularis palustris L. 
Uredospores obtained from the cultures on Vincetoxicum officinale infected Im- 
patiens Balsamina and Pedicularis palustris. Aecidiospores of Peridermium 
Pini (Willd.) Kleb. failed to infect Tropacolum minus, Pedicularis palustris, 
Vincetoxicum officinale and Schizanthus Grahami Gill. The results of cultures 
on Pedicularis show that the Cronartium on that plant belongs to Peridermium 
Cornui Rostr. and Kleb. and not, as Srro had erroneously supposed, to P. Pint 
Chev. P. Pini remains an isolated aecidium. e opservation that the 
Chilean species, Schizanthus Grahami Gill. growing in Brandenburg was in- 
fected with a Coleosporrum led the author to make sowings of a number of 
European species of Coleosporium, with the surprising result that not one but 
several of the European forms infected Schizanthus. At the same time, cul- 
tures were made upon another exotic plant, Tropaeolum minus L., upon which 
Coleosporium had been observ ‘chizanthus Grahami was infected by 
redospores of the following forms: Coleosporium Euphrasiae (Schum.) Wint 
from Alectrolophus major Reichenb. an Wimm. and Grab.; 
heatnehapapi Kleb. from Campanula rapunculoides L.; C. Campanulae f. 
9 TRANZSCHEL, W., Culturversuche mit Uredineen in den Jahren 1911-1913. 
Mycol. Centralbl. 4: ahd cra 
2 KLEBARN, H.,K it Rostpil Zeitschr. Pflanzenkrank 24: 1-32. 
1914. 
