Zundel: Ustilagineae of Washington 277 



Whitman County, Wash. — 40 per cent, infection mostly in tassel, Sept. 12, 

 1919 (Zundel and Williams). On Wash. State College Farm, Oct. 1919 

 (Dana). 



Spacelotheca sorghi (Link) Clint. Jour. Myc, 8: 140. 1902. 



On Sorghum sp. (cultivated), Forage nursery Washington State College, 

 Pullman, Whitman Co., Wash. Sept. 10, 1915 (Heald and George C. S. No. 

 238) ; Yakima. Yakima Co., Wash. Oct. 10, 1918 (E. C. Scott, I. S. No. 

 1708) ; near Chelan, Chelan Co., Wash. Summer 19 18. 

 Tilletia as peri folia El. & Ev. Jour. Myc, 3: 55. 1887. 



On Sporobolus asperifolius, Rockland, Klickitat Co., Wash. June 3, 1905 

 (W. N. Suksdorf No. 998) ; Yakima, Yakima Co., Wash. Aug. 1895 (Watt, 

 W. S. C. Herbarium). 



Tilletia elymi Diet. & Hoi. Bot. Gaz., 19: 305. 1894. 



On Elymus sp., Skamania Co., Wash. Aug. 13, 1886. Type collection 

 (W. N. Suksdorf No. 336). 



Tilletia foetens (B. & C.) Trel. Par. Fungi. Wis. 35- 1884. 



Collected on Triticum sp. — in Thurston Co., Grays Harbor Co., Island Co., 

 and Lincoln Co., Wash. Summers of 1918-1919. The one sample from 

 Lincoln County in 1919 is the only one known to have been collected in 

 Washington, east of the Cascade Mountains. 



Tilletia fusca El. & Ev. P. B. I. Bull., 38: 43. 1903; Jour. Myc, 3: 55. 

 1887. 



On Festuca microstachys and F. octa flora, 25 miles north of Prosser, 

 Benton Co., Wash. Summer 1903 (David Griffiths). Fully three-fourths of 

 all plants had been destroyed by the smut ; Rattlesnake Mountains, Yakima 

 Co., Wash. June 18, 1901 (J. S. Cotton in Flora of Yakima Region, 1901). 

 Tilletia guyotiana Har. Jour de Botanique, 1900: 117. 1900. 



Syn. Thecophora guyotiana Har. Mem. Soc. Acad, de l'Aube, 1887: 195. 

 1887. 



Sori replacing ovaries, somewhat flexible. Spores enmasse reddish-brown, 

 spores yellowish, clear, globose, roughly elliptical, very elegantly reticulated, 

 19-25 fi diam." 



On Bromus hordaceus glabrescens, 



(a) Wedgewood Bros. Farm, Goldendale, Klickitat Co., Wash. Aug. 



12, 1919 (Zundel & Cooney). Elevation 2200 ft. 



(b) Three miles west of Goldendale, Klickitat Co., Wash. Aug. 12, 



1919. Elevation 1900 ft. 



(c) South end of Trout Lake, Klickitat Co., Wash. Aug. 13, 1919. 



(d) White Salmon, Klickitat Co., Wash. Aug. 13, 1919. 



(e) Staker's Canyon, Klickitat Co., Wash. Aug. 14, 19 19. 



(/) Seven miles east of Dixie, .Walla Walla Co., on the foothills of 

 the Blue Mountains. Sept. 28, 1919 (Zundel & Patton). 

 So far as the writer has been able to ascertain this is the first time that 

 this smut has been reported from North America. Plants were found that 

 were smutted with both Ustilago bromivora and Tilletia guyotiana. It is very 

 abundant on the foothills of the Blue Mountains of Washington and all over 

 Klickitat County, Wash. It is very inconspicuous and not easily found unless 

 one knows exactly what to look for. The writer first found his specimen 



