Parasitic Fungi of Illinois. 233 
short-cylindrical, little or not at all recurved; spores subglo- 
bose or elliptical, tuberculate, 18-21 u; spermagonia seldom 
found, mostly preceding the ecidia, scattered over the spot on 
either side of leaf. 
On Plantago Virginica: Union, April 15, 4106, 4126, 
April 17, 4134, April 26, 4305, April 27, 43833; Jackson, April 
19, 4180, April 28, 4861; Johnson, May 13, 4667. 
The determination of this species was made from the speci- 
men in Ravenel’s Fungi Americani, No. 483. 
Zé. lysimachies, (Schl.) Wallr. 
Hypophyllous (also on the petioles). Spots distinct, yel- 
lowish, scarcely thickened; ecidia somewhat circinate, short, 
the recurved border very narrow; spores subglobose, epispore 
thick, conspicuously tuberculate, 21-24 by 22-27 »; spermago- 
nia few, central, above. 
On Lysimachia ciliata: McLean, June 1, 4882. 
The above description is taken from’ specimens on Lysima- 
chia ciliata, and agrees, save in the irregularly circinate arrange- 
ment of the ecidia, with the specimens in Rabenhorst’s Fungi 
Europzi, No. 391. A specimen from Wisconsin on L. lanceo- 
lata is distinct, especially in the characteristics of the spores, 
but otherwise as well. It is not known what the Schweinitzian 
Acidium lysimachie is. Tf the same as Schlectendal’s Cwoma 
lysimachie, the second authority for the name should be 
Schweinitz; if different, the question arises as to which name 
shall be allowed to stand. At all events there does not seem 
to be good reason for writing, as is sometimes done, 44 cidium 
lysimachie, Lk. 
4, pentstemonis, Schw. 
Hypophyllous. Spots definite, purple, yellow-bordered, 
usually small, somewhat thickened; ecidia clustered, short, the 
deeply recurved border rather coarsely split; spores subglobose, 
inconspicuously tuberculate, 18-21 »; spermagonia few, cen- 
tral in the spots on both sides of leaf. 
On Pentstemon pubescens: Union, April 16, 5014 (Earle), 
April 17, 41388; Johnson, May 12, 4645, May 16, 4698. 
