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alder trunks and branches, the veil or operculum is very fugacious, so 
that it is rarely seen except on very young plants.” Name, operculo , to 
cover, from being first covered by a veil. 
14. Panus salicinus, Peck. 
Pileus 4"—6" broad, firm, thin, convex, deflexed or subpendant, hygro- 
phanous, minutely farinaceo-tomentose, pinkish-grey; gills moderately 
broad and close, converging to an excentric point, dark ferruginous; stem 
very short or obsolete, obliquely attached to the vertex of the pileus; 
plant gregarious. Trunks of dead willows, Salix discolor , Center, N. Y.; 
24th Rep., p. 77-78; Minnesota, Johnson, September and October. Name, 
salix , willow tree, from its habitat. 
NEW KANSAS FUNGI. 
BY J. B. ELLIS AND W. A. KEBLERMAN. 
Vermicularia sparsipila, E. & K.—On living leaves of Callirrhoe 
involucraia , Rooks Co., Kansas. Leg. Mr. E. Bartholomew, No. 25. On 
dirty brown irregular-shaped spots i—1 cm. in diameter; perithecia epi- 
phyllous, erumpent, pale, 75 P in diameter, subastomous, thickly scat¬ 
tered over the spots and sparingly clothed with a few (2—6) erect, dark 
brown, continuous hairs, 40—60 x 5 /'-, arising mostly from near the vertex; 
sporules oblong-elliptical, 2-nucleate, 18—20x5—6 /-*,hyaline, ends obtuse. 
Aecidium tuberculatum , E. & K., occurs on the same leaves. 
Aecidium tuberculatum, E. & K.—On leaves of Callirrhoe invo- 
lucrata , Rooks Co., Kans. Leg. E. Bartholomew, No. 25. Amphigenous 
but more abundant below, springing from the midrib and nerves of the 
leaf, but without any definite spots; secidia at first tubercular-hemispher¬ 
ical, i—f mm. in diameter and closed, then open and cup-shaped, with the 
margin slightly toothed ; spores deep orange-yellow, variable in size and 
shape, subglobose, 18—20 p to subelliptical, oblong or ovate, 20—27 x 
18—23 p. This is quite distinct from Aecidium Callirrhoes , E. & K., which 
is on definite spots with smaller secidia. 
Phleospora Chenopodii, E. & K.— On leaves of Chenopodium 
album , Manhattan, Kans., May, 1887. Kellerman & Swingle, No. 1187. 
Spots amphigenous, suborbicular, £—£ cm. in diameter, pale rusty brown, 
with a raised greenish margin and more or less concentrically wrinkled; 
perithecia amphigenous, erumpent-superficial, black, rather large, scat¬ 
tered, only imperfectly developed, the lower part nearly obsolete, broadly 
perforated above; sporules oblong-cylindrical, obtuse at each end, 3-sep- 
tate, pale brownish, constricted at the septa, 20—35 (mostly 20—25) x 8—11 
p. This is quite distinct from Septoria Chenopodii, West., which has 
much narrower (and according to our European specimens) continuous 
sporules. 
