NEW LITERATURE. 



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taiiily greater than those of m iiiy forms which are regarded as distinct 

 by good mycologists. It is, in all events, interesting to know that we 

 have in the White Mountains boiii tue uredo and teleutosporic forms of 

 OhrysomyxaLedi growing in close proximity to Abies nigra in regions 

 where it is badly infested with a Feriderraium which, as stated in my pa- 

 per already referred to, I am unable to distinguish from P. abietinum, 

 one form of which is said by De 13ary, in his exhaustive paper on the sub- 

 ject, to be the aecidium of Ohrysomyxa Ledi." On Abies Canadensis, 

 Mr. A. B. Seymour found, in Massachusetts, a Cseom i, whose scarcely 

 ripe sp )res were smaller than ni C. Abietis-pectinatae, Rees, and which 

 Dr. Farlow designates, ''until more exact information can be obtained," 

 as C. Abietis-Canadensis. 



Arthur, J. C— ''Preliminary List, of Iowa Uredine8e,"in Bulletin of the 

 Iowa Agricultural College, issued by the Department of Botany, Nov. 

 1884. 



The list contains the names, in alphabetical order and with host- 

 plani s, of 134 species collected by Messrs. Artlmr, Hoi way and Bessey. 

 Tue genera represented and the number of ' species are the following: 

 Uromyces, 19 ; Puccinia, 48; Phragmidium, 4 ; Gymnosporangium, 8 ; 

 Melampsora, 2 ; Coleosporium, 2: Chrysomyxa, 1 ; Uredo, 4 ; Cseoma, 1 ; 

 ^cidium, 48 ; Roestelia, 2. The new species are as follows : Uromyces 

 Rudbeckise, Arthur & Holway, on R. laciuiata ; Puccinia Cypripedii, 

 Arthur & Holway, on C. pubescens , P. Eleocharis, Arthur, on E. inter- 

 media and E palustris; P. Sporoboli, Arthur, on S. heterolepus ; P. 

 Stipse, Arthur, on S. spartea ; Phragmidium gracile (Farlow), P. incras- 

 satum Lk. var. gracile, Far., m Ellis' JS". A. P., 282, on Rubus strigo- 

 sus ; Coleosporium Viburni, Arthur, on V. Lentago ; Uredo Boutelouse. 

 Arthur, on B. racemosa ; ^cidium i^apsese, Arthur & Holway, on N. 

 dioica. 



Cragtn, F. W.— "Lower Fungi of Kansas;'' in Bulletin Washburn 

 College of Nat. Hist., I, p. 62. 



A list of 68 identified species, with descriptions of the following : 



Rhinotrichum pulveraceum, Ellis in litt. — On dead wood and 

 bark, Topeka. Winter. Occurring with Torula binale, C. & E. Form- 

 ing a thin, pale, yellowish white, subsranulose layer on the matrix ; 

 hyplise much branched, the ends swollen and smooth ; the conidia (appear- 

 ing at first inside tliesB swollen ends and pushing out through the invest- 

 ing membrane V) variable in size and shape, globose, 5—9 />■ in diameter, 

 or elliptical, 5—12 X 5—7 ; the elliptical conidia mostly with a slight 

 apiculus at one end. The branching hyphse are sparingly septate and 

 mostly not over 3 in diameter. Peculiar in the smooth, swollen tips. 

 The sterile hyphse form a thin, white, soft layer like a Gortidum on tne 

 surface of the wood. 



Peziza Craginia^^a, E. & E., in litt. On very rotten wood, Tope- 

 ka, May. Stipitate, 2—3 mm. in diameter, smooth, discoid, pale waxj^- 

 white when fresh, darker when dry ; stem filiform, 2—3 mm. long; asci 

 cylindrical, 75 x 6 /^-, sessile or nearly so ; paraphyses linear, rather stout, 

 often branched above, but scarcely thickened ; sporidia ovate-elliptical, 

 hyaline (yellowish in the asci), 2-nucleate. 5—6x2^—3/^, uniseriate or 

 sometimes biseriate. Allied to P. gracilipes, Cke. 



Peziza hemispherica, Wigg., in litt. var. subcalva, EIL— Differs 

 from typical hemispherica chiefly in the possession of a rather sparing 

 hairy coat. On damp ground in woods, Topeka, June and July. 



