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Melampsora populina, Lev. Hypophyllous, epiphyllous, or amphigenous, 

 at first yellow or orange. 



Summer spores — obovate oblong, attenuated or truncate, echinulate, paraphy- 

 ses obovate, capitate or claviforin, abundant in fully ripened sori. 



Winter spores — Sori at first tawny yellow, becoming black during the winter, 

 swelling in the spring, and becoming of a cinnamon color, hypophyllous, round- 

 ish or oblong ; spores prism-shaped, five or six together, yellowish, smooth. 



On Foplar leaves. (Westbrook, E. C. B.) 

 ( Uredo cylindricum. Schweinitz, Fung. Am. Bor. No. 2855.) 



Lectthea, Lev. 



Stroma surrounded or sprinkled with elongated abortive spores. Spores free, 

 invested with their mother-cell or concatenate. 



Probably not a good genus, most of the species having been found to be only 

 conditions of species in other genera. It is only inserted here provisionally to 

 include species not yet traced to their associate forms. 



Lecythea gyrosa, Berk. Spots obliterated ; sori minute, confluent, and 

 forming a small distinct ring ; epiphyllous, epidermis bursting; spores globose, 

 and elongato-pyriform, yellow or pale. 



On the upper surface of Bramble and Easpberry leaves. ( Westbrook, E. C. B.; 

 New York, W. W. D.) 

 (Uredo gyrosum. Schweinitz, Fung. Ani. Bor. No. 2854.) 

 It is also doubtful whether this is an autonomous species. * 



Lecythea epitea, Lev. Sori roundish, scattered, at first tawny, at length 

 growing pale, surrounded by the ruptured epidermis ; spores subrotund and 

 pyriform. 



On Willow leaves. (Chicago, Illinois ; Niagara Falls, E. C. B.) 

 ( Uredo epiteum. Schweinitz, Fung. Am. Bor. No. 2856. Ravenel, Fung. Car. Ex. v. 

 No. 98.) 



N. B. This is probably only the Uredo-form of some species not yet associ- 

 ciated with it, and as such is recorded here provisionally under the above name 

 assigned to it by Leveille. At present I have not received it from any locality 

 in Maine. 



THE CLIO BOREALIS ON THE COAST OF MAINE. 



By Dr. W. Wood. 



This animal was brought to the notice of the Society by Mr. C. B. Fuller, 

 at its regular meeting, May 7, 1868. He stated that whilst looking for 

 Acalephs, as he has long been in the habit of doing, he obtained a single speci- 

 men of the Clio, for the first time April 6th, with Bolina, Pleurobrachia, Idyia, 

 Nanomia and other jelly fishes, which at that time were very abundant. On 

 April 28th the Nanomia, Tiaropsis, Oceania, Bolina with the Sagitta were taken 



