1917] - LONG—RAVENELIA 63 
the spores, colorless, clavate to subcapitate, 5-14 by 35-62 y, 
average for 20, 9.6 by 45 u, apex of head thin-walled, base of head 
very thick-walled, stipe usually solid. 
III. Telia amphigenous, scattered, o.5—1.0 mm. across, often 
confluent over areas 3-4 mm. in diameter, brownish-black, elliptical 
to irregularly oval, subcuticular, ruptured cuticle very conspicuous; 
teliospore heads dark chestnut-brown, hemispherical, smooth or 
an occasional head with a few scattered, short (2-3 u), hyaline, 
tubercles, especially on the marginal spores, 5-9 cells across, 60- 
gO w, average for 20 heads 74 uw, 10-20 marginal spores, 8-24 inner 
spores, usual number per head 24-32; paraphyses present but very 
few and similar in every way to those found in the uredinia; cysts 
hyaline, in 2-3 rows around the pedicel, many, not coherent with 
each other, slow to burst in water, subpendant; penis colorless, 
compound, short, deciduous. 
This description of the rust was drawn from 
+  Distripution.—New Mexico: On Cassia bauhinioides, “Mesilla Park, 
Wooton, in October 1895, ex. Herb. N.Y. Bot. Garden (no. 5021 Long) and 
ex. Herb. A. and M. College of N. Mex. (no. 5022 Long); Wooton in October 
i. North American Fungi, Herb. of ELam BaRTHOLOMEW (part of ty 
= re See 
August 1901 and October 1915 faa 1019 and tan: Llano, ne ead Wolf, 
1909 (no. 1751 Herb. Path. and ; Myc. Investigat., Plant Disease Sur- oe 
and 
vey); Marble Falls, Carsner and Studhalter, May 1912 (no. 4333 Herb. Univ. 
Texas); Meridian, Long, June 1916 (no. 6056); San Antonio, Long, May and — 
November 1916 (nos. 5616 and ots San Marcos, i November 1915, and 
May 1916 (nos. 5468 and 6034). 
This &. Cacsia ba SEES ee at Mesilla rk 
| New Mexico, in 1895 and aanin in 1897 “ee Wooton. It was described as a a 
ae 
lected in 1897. Tt has been reported on 
a In 1900, ~ writer sent $ 
. Austin, T: 
