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24. Piggotia fraxini 3. & C. 
On Fraxinus peunsylvanica Marsh. 
Lakeside, Ottawa Co., Ohio. Sept. 19, 1901. 
Coll. W. A. Kellerman. 
“ Piggotia fraxini B. & C. Peritheciis liic illic caespites punc- 
tiforrnes congestis ; sporis oblongis minutis. 
“ Hypophjdlous. Peritheeia collected two or three together 
into little rugged dot-like groups; spores minute oblong. ” M. J. 
Berkeley, Grevillea, 3 : 7. September, 1874. 
25. Polystictus molliusculus Berk. 
On rotten Beech log. 
Columbus, Ohio. Oct. 30, 1901. 
Coll. W. A. Kellerman. 
“ Polyporus (Anodermei) molliusculus, n. sp.; imbricatus pileis 
effuso-reflexis sublobatis leviter zonatis albis ; zonis strigis mollibus 
-.parsis ornatis ; contextu albo ; poriis mediis pallidis. 
“ Imbricated thin 5 inches or more long, 3 inches broad, some- 
times perfectly resupinate, more generally with the border broadly 
reflected and slightly lobed, finely silky or nearly smooth, with 
zones of soft strigae, which in the dried plant are perfectly innate. 
Substance white, thin, corky when dry. 
“ Pores 1-48 of an inch broad, at first entire with thick dissepi- 
ments, at length lacerated and elongated, wood colored.” M. J. 
Berkeley, London Journal of Botany, 6 : 320. 1847. 
26. Puccinia angustata Peck. 
On Scirpus cvperinus (L.) Kunth. 
Sugar Grove, Fairfield Co., Ohio. October 12, 1901. 
Coll. W. A. Kellerman. 
“ P. angustata Peck. Hypogenous ; spots pallid or none ; sori 
oblong or linear, sometimes regularly arranged at equal intervals 
in long parallel lines, narrow, surrounded by the ruptured 
epidermis, black ; spores narrow, oblong-clavate or elongated, 
septate above the middle, strongly constricted, having the lower cell 
more narrow than the upper and cylindrical or slightly tapering 
downwards, .001 8'-. 0024' long. .0006' broad ; peduncle colored, 
thick, very short.” Clias. H. Peck, Report on the State Museum, 
State of New York, 25 : 123. 1872. 
27. Puccinia asparagi DC. 
On Aspargus officinalis L., plants grown from seed sown 
in the spring of 1900. 
Columbus, Ohio. April 10, 1901. 
Coll. W. A. Kellerman. 
“ Puccinia asparagi. Elle est assez commune en automne sur 
les tiges les branches, et les feuilles de 1'asparage officinale; elle 
forme des taches ovales ou plus souvent oblongues, brunes, con- 
vexes ; l’epiderme se fend longitudinalement ; les puccines sont 
inserees et fortement fixees sur un receptacle dur et charnu ; 
chacune d’elles est compose d’un pedicelle blanc qui soutient un 
pericarpe oblong, obtus, a 2 loges separees par un etranglement 
tres-pronounce.” DeCainlolle, Flore Fran^aise, 2 : 595. 1805. 
