182 Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. 
Spores with the teleutospores, subglobose to oblong, echinulate, 
yellowish brown, 16-27 by 27-30 ». JJI. Spores quite uni- 
form, rounded at both ends, broad, with a very short, nearly 
hyaline apiculus, and sometimes a simular projection on the 
side of the lower segment, thick walled, dark colored, smooth, 
30 by 444; pedicels as long as 90 u. 
Spots none; sori amphigenous, pulvinate, densely aggregated, 
blackish brown; spores rather large, broad, long pedicelled.—Schweinitz, 
N. Am. Fungi, No. 2931, p. 296. 
On Kuhnia eupatoriodes: Lee, Sept. 9, 5761, II., III.; La 
Salle, Sept. 12, 1478, Sept. 14, 1542; Stephenson, Sept. 14, 
5889, IT, III; Champaign, Sept. 23; McLean, Oct. 7, 1823; 
Jersey, Oct. 12, 6270. 
P. conoclinii, Seymour. 
U., II. Mostly hypophyllous; spots small, purple, often 
confluent over large areas, becoming pale; sori scattered, sparse 
or very numerously associated, not often confluent, uredosori 
cinnamon-brown; teleutosori dark reddish brown; uredospores 
subglobose to oval, sharply echinulate, 18-27 «; teleutospores 
broadly oval, little constricted, ends rounded, walls thick, warty, 
27 by 32-42 »; pedicel nearly hyaline, firm, crooked, very long, 
about three times the length of the spores. 
On Conoelinium colestinum: Pine Hills, Union Co., Sept. 
11, 5034, IT., UT. F. 8. Earle. 
This is P. centaurew, DC. of Berkeley’s Notices of North 
American Fungi (Grevillea III. p. 53) ascertained by examina- 
tion of the original specimens in Herb. Curtis, but differs from 
other authentic specimens bearing this name. 
P. asteris, Duby. 
III. Hypophyllous. Sori densely crowded in round, dis- 
tinct, and firm clusters, the latter scattered, few or many, light 
to dark brown; spores smooth, clavate, gradually narrowed to 
the septum and toward the base. upper segment widest, apex 
thickened, rounded or pointed, 15-18 by 83-45 «; pedicel nearly 
hyaline, usually somewhat shorter than the spore. 
Spots above yellowish, sori large, fuscous, orbicular and elongated, 
convex, compact, and powdery, scattered, hypophyllous, surrounded by 
