190 Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. 
latter usually much elongated and often confluent, erect, short, 
irregularly split, not recurved; spores elliptical or ovate-oblong, 
minutely echinulate, 15-18 by 22-28 «. 
II., III. Hypogenous. Spots yellow or brown, often con- 
spicuous, frequently confluent; sori scattered, round, rather 
large, uredosori yellowish brown, flat, teleutosori blackish, 
prominent; uredospores subglobose or ovate, minutely echinu- 
late, thin walled, about 18-21 by 21-24 »; teleutospores short, 
broadly ovate or broadly oval, somewhat constricted, ends 
rounded, furnished with a short, obtuse, almost hyaline, apic- 
ulus, surface beset with minute warts, 21-27 »; pedicel hyaline, 
once to twice length of spore. 
Scattered, punctiform, obscurely spadiceous, spores subquadrangu- 
lar; pedicel very short.—Persoon Syn. Fung., p. 227. 
On leaves of Mentha Canadensis: Ogle, Sept. 25, 6169, IL., 
II. Mentha sps : Lee, Sept. 27, 6206, IL, II]. Crnila Mari- 
ana: Johnson, May 11, 4620, I., II., May 12, 4652, IT., May 15, 
4690, 1., TI., TIL, May 16, 4707, IL, 4711, IL; IIL., Jersey, Oct. 
12, 6268, IL, IIL, Oct. 18, 6293, IT., III.; Union, Oct. 25, 2009, 
IL, WI. Pycnanthenum pilosum: Adams, July 6, 5486, IL., 
July 7, 5446, I. P. lanceolatum: McHenry, Aug. 20, 1163, 
II., III.; Stephenson, Sept. 13, 5837, IL., III.; JoDaviess, Sept. 
15, 5918, Il., III. P. linifolium: Jersey, Oct. 12, 6267, IL., 
TIL. Monarda fistulosa: Johnson, May 12, 4653, II., May 15, 
4691, II.; Adams, June 28, 5322, I1., June 30, 5369, IL., III., 
July 5, 5419, IL, UL; McLean, July 11, 2394, IL, July 15, 
2395, IL., July 16, 2396, I., July 17, 5578, II., I; McHenry, 
Aug. 20, 1180, I., IIL, Aug. 24, 1285, II., IIL; Lake, Aug. 27, 
1357, II., TIL., Aug. 29, 1367, IT., IIL; Lee, Sept. 8, 5722, IT., 
III.; Stephenson, Sept. 13,5799, IL., I[L.; Rock Island, Sept. 21, 
1610, IL., IIL, Sept. 26, 1664, II., II., Sept. 27, 1672; Fulton, 
Oct. 1, 1769, IL., III.; Jersey, Oct. 12, 6265, I., IIT.; Cham- 
paign, Nov. 7, 2276. M. Bradburiana: Johnson, May 11, 
4619, I; Jersey, Oct. 18, 6294, I, TU. M. punctata: Cook, 
Sept. 3, IL., II., coll. J. C. Arthur; Lee, Sept. 11, 5782, IT. 
Blephilia hirsuta: Pulaski, May 2, 4443, Il., May 5, 4494, IT., 
Johnson, May 11, 4618, IT.; Adams, June 28, 5323, IL.; Me- 
