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at the tip; conidia 60—105 x3—6 y, clavate, 2—3-septate t very light coffee- 
color, slightly nucleate. The tufts of hyphae are usually more abundant 
on the lower side of the leaf. 
Cercospora Oxybaphi, Ell. & Halsted— On Oxybaplius ny daymens, 
Sweet. Very good specimens. 
Cercospora ros^ecola, Pass.—On Rosa Arkansana, Porter. 
Cercospora pachypus, E. & K.—On Helianthus petiolaris , Nutt., 
Form mentioned in Journ. Mycol., Vol. IV, p. 7. The specimens sent 
have the following characters: Spots at lirst minute, white, then increas¬ 
ing in size and finally becoming dirty brown; hyphae amphigenous, oliva¬ 
ceous, clustered, 36—45 x6—8 y; conidia slightly colored, at first globular, 
finally 40—90 x 5—7 y, 1—3-septate. The leaves are often overrun with 
the spots, giving them a peculiar pale appearance. 
Cercospora Silphii, E. & E.—On living radical leaves of Silphium 
integrifolium , Mx. The conidia were larger than the description in the 
Journ. Mycol., Vol. IV, p. 3, states. They were 75—100 x 3—6 y , 
instead of “70—80 x 3 /*”. 
Cercospora Asclepiodor^e, E. & K.— (Journ. Mycol., Vol. IV, 
p. 6.) On Asdepias Jamesii, Torr. 
CIIYTRIDlACEiE. 
Synciiytrium fulgens, Schroeter.—On radical leaves of (Ennthera 
biennis , L. 
The following species were collected by Mr. M. A. Carleton in Octo¬ 
ber, 1887: 
UREDINE^E. 
Puccinia angustata, Pk.—On Scirpus , Mitchell county, Kansas. 
Teleutospores. 
Puccinia phragmites (Schum.) Kornick.—On Spartina cynosur- 
oides , VVilld., Mitchell Co., Kan. Teleutospores. 
MUCEDINEiE. 
Peronospora effusa (Grev.)—On Chenopodium album, L., Cloud 
Co., Kan. 
DEMATIEtE. 
Cercospora Asclepiadis, Ell. —On Asdepias (arenaria) Cer¬ 
cospora clavata (Gerard) also occurs on the under sides of the same leaves. 
Cloud Co., Kan. _ 
NEW LITERATURE. 
BY W. A. KELLERMAN. 
“Uncinula polyciueta, B. & C.” By S. M. Tracy & B. T. Galloway, 
Botanical Gazette, February, 1888. 
