Orton: Notes on Polemoniaceous Rusts 173 



The observation of Spegazzini that P. patagonica differs wholly 

 from Puccinia Giliae Farl. is quite correct. We interpret this 

 reference to P. Giliae Farl. as an error for P. Giliae Ellis & 

 Hark, which is discussed later in this paper. 



Puccinia fragilis Tracy & Gall. Jour. Myc. 4 : 20. 1888 



The type collection was described as on Arenaria pungens col- 

 lected at Reno, Nevada, June 19, 1887. Holway* has called at- 

 tention to the host plant which he says is Phlox. In the Arthur 

 Herbarium there are three packets purporting to be portions of 

 the type collection. One was taken from the collection of S. M. 

 Tracy, July 5, 1900, and bears the data above and the collectors 

 names, Tracy & Evans. Another specimen marked " type " was 

 received from a collection in the Iowa Agr. College in October, 

 1898, and bears the same inscription except that Evans's name 

 does not appear on the packet as co-collector. The third packet 

 came from the Holway Herbarium and bears the number 4591, 

 otherwise the inscription is like that on the first mentioned packet. 

 Examination of the material shows only telia. The host is prob- 

 ably Phlox longifolia Nutt. and the rust is certainly Allodus Giliae. 



Aecidium Phlogis Ellis & Ev. Bull. Torr. Club. 24: 284. 1897 



This species was described from a collection on Phlox longi- 

 folia, made near Lewistown,. Idaho, April, 1896, by A. A. Heller 

 (No. 2992). Ellis and Everhart published the following note 

 with the description: ''This is not improbably the Aecidium of 

 Puccinia plumharia Peck which is found on the same host." 

 What is apparently a portion of the type collection was issued by 

 Ellis & Ev. in N. Am. Fungi ^582 and is most certainly the aecial 

 stage of Allodus Giliae although I have seen no specimens of this 

 collection bearing telia on the same plant. 



Puccinia Purpusii P. Henn. Hedwigia 37: 270. 1898 



Hennings described this species from a collection made by Mr. 

 C. A. Purpus in California. The original description included 

 both aecia and telia and purports to have been collected at Potter 



4 Holway, E. W. D. (loc. cit.). 



