Parasitic Fungi of Ilimois. 209 
It seems the germination of the spores has not been observed 
neither have other spore forms been certainly found as genetic 
productions. In &. stictica, B. & Br., however, Berkeley says: 
“The larger pseudospores are accompanied by uredinoid bodies 
which are minutely papillate.” (Linn. Soc. Jour. Bot., Vol. 
XIV. p. 93.) 
The spores attain the largest size among the Uredinew, and 
are otherwise very readily generically recognized. 
Speaking of R. indica, Berkeley says, ‘‘The glandular bodies con- 
sist of a large umbrella-shaped, dark cap, often 4,th of an inch across, 
composed of a number of closely packed cells, supported by a long, hy- 
aline, delicate, and apparently compound stem, round the end of which 
are suspended a circle of elongated hyaline bodies, calling to mind, in 
point of arrangement, the appendages of some species of Meduse, or in 
general appearance the fruit of some Marchantia. In the South Caro- 
lina species [R. glandulosa, B. & C.] on the contrary, the peduncle is 
shorter and the appendages are united by their sides into a solid mass.” 
The species grow on various Leguminose. 
R. glanduleformis, B. & C. 
Amphigenous. Sori scattered, rather small, often confluent 
in areas of variable, sometimes of considerable size, testaceous; 
spores broadly capitate, the many-celled, dish-like, chestnut- 
brown upper layer projecting over the hyaline cells beneath, 
about 75 to 100 »; pedicel short, hyaline. 
Spores urn-shaped, with a short pedicel, hyaline below and lobed or 
striate ; even above, cellular, colored, projecting beyond the lower divi- 
sion. In some specimens the lower division is even, and the cells of the 
upper part larger, but it is probably a mere form.—Berkeley, Grevillea, 
IL, p. 80. 
On Tephrosia Virginiana: “ Pine Hills,” Union County. 
Collected several times in same locality by F. 8. Earle. 
GYMNOSPORANGIUM, DC. 
Spores with one horizontal septum, less commonly one to 
six cells in a vertical row, yellow, with epispore thin, on long, 
slender, hyaline pedivels, imbedded in gelatine, which, ‘when 
moist, swells into a soft columnar or irregular body. Parasitic 
on the leaves and branches of various Cupressineg. 
