222 Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. 
length more or less recurved and many times divided, becoming 
pulverulent, pale yellowish; spores subglobose or elliptical, epi- 
spore rather thick, finely but conspicuously tuberculate, 18 by 
21-24 «; spermagonia minute, honey-yellow, mostly scattered 
on the upper surface of the affected area. 
On Anemone Pennsylvanica: Champaign, June 9, 4934, 
June 10, 4956. 
AS. ranunculi, Schw. 
Mostly hypogenous. Equally usually densely associated 
over the whole surface of the leaf, or over definite patches; 
wcidia recurved, border narrow and many times split; spores 
subglobose or elliptical, finely echinulate, 15-21 by 18-24 »; 
spermagonia numerous, scattered among the ecidia on same 
side of leaf, minute. 
On Ranunculus abortivus: Union, April 12, 4080, April 18, 
4066, April 14, 4097, April 15, 41063, April 17, 4131; Jackson, 
April 18, 4165, April 28, 4363; Pulaski, May 5, 4507; McLean, 
May 23, 4751, May 29, 4805, May 30, 4840. 
AS. punctatum, Pers. 
’ Hypophyllous. Spots effused, yellowish; wcidia uniformly 
scattered over large portions or the whole of the leaf-surface, 
not usually crowded, rather large, deeply divided into few 
(about four) widely spreading recurved lobes, thin but firm; 
spores subglobose to oblong, almost smooth, brown, about 18— 
21 », or 15-18 by 21-27 »; spermagonia uniformly and re- 
motely scattered on both surfaces, conspicuous, reddish brown. 
Simple, scattered, peridia subimmersed, mouth subcontinuous, pow- 
der compact, fuscescent.—Persoon, Syn. Fung., p. 212. 
On Hepatica triloba: Champaign, May 1. Anemone weio- 
rosa; Riverside, near Chicago, June 2. J. C. Arthur. 
This is Avcidium quadrifidum, DC. There is on Anemone 
nemorosa a species supposed to be different (not so far found in 
Tlinois) knewn as 4. anemones, Pers., or sh. leucospermum, 
DC. In this last the pseudoperidium is more often, but less 
deeply, divided, and the border more distinctly rolled, and the 
\spermagonia are very much less conspicuous, produced, how- 
