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JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 



[Vol. 1, 



DISTRIBUTION OF PUCCIIVIA HETEROSPORA. 



BY A. B. SEYMOUR. 



When the note on Puccinia lieterospora in the Botanical Gazette, 

 December, 1883, was prepared, the hosts known w^ere Sida triquetra, S. 

 humilis, S. hirsuta, S. spinosa, S. rhombifolia, Abutilon Texense, A. 

 parvulum and Anoda hastata ; and the localities, Illinois, Texas, Cuba, 

 Ceylon, and South Africa. 



A search through the Malvaceae of the Gray Herbarium has revealed 

 the following : 



Sida supina, Key West, Florida, Feb. 1846, Kegel (100). 



S. PHYSOCALYX, Texas, 1847-8, Lindheimer (583). 



S. HUMILIS, Moridabad, India, Dr. Thompson (325). 



Abutilon crispum. Key Largo, S. Florida, May. A. H. Curtiss, 

 Fl. Texano-Mexicana, Bolandier (2237). Maydallum, Sept. 18, Thurber 

 (1030). San Luis Potosi, 1876, Schalfner (163). 



A. Texekse, Santa Catalina Mts., Arizona, Apr. 1881, Lemmon. 

 Sonora, Mex., 185, Thurber. 



A. BoLANDiEKi, San Fernando, Oct. 1835. Bolandier, Fl. Tex.-Mex. 

 3050. 



A. SEDOiDES, San Luis Potosi, Mex., 1878, Parry & Palmer. 

 A. viLLiFERUM, McArthur river, Australia, Mueller. 

 Anoda hastata. Chili, Meyen, 



Gaya subtriloba, San Luis Potosi, Mex., 1878, Parry & Palmer 

 (92). Peru, Mathews (3236). 



Malvaviscus Drummondii, (only 1-celled spores seen). Texas, 

 1843, Lindhemier (25). 



Urena, Fernando Po., Hooker's Niger Exp. 1843, Vogel (202). 



NEW LITERATURE. 



BY W. A. KBLLERMAN. 



Charles H. Peck.— "New Species of Fungi," in the Bulletin of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club, April, 1885. 

 Eleven new species are here described and a plate of figures illus- 

 trates three of them. They are as follows : Boletus sphserosporus, Pk. 

 (Wisconsin) ; Septoria astragalicola, Pk., on living or languishing leaves 

 of Astragalus (Arizona) ; Puccinia tumidipes, Pk, II and III, on living 

 leaves of Lycium Andersonii (Arizona) ; Puccinia globosipes, Pk., on 

 leaves of Lycium Calif ornicum (California) ; Puccinia Brickellise, Pk. II 

 and III, on living leaves of Brickellia ( Arizona) ; Puccinia Pentstemonis, 

 Pk., on living leaves of P. linarioides (Arizona) ; Puccinia Malvastri, 

 Pk., 0 1 living leaves of Malvastrum (Arizona) ; Puccinia Viguierse, Pk , 



