Feb., Mau., 1888.J 
NEW WESTERN UREDINE/E. 
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Puccinia verti-septa, Tracy & Gal.— II and III. Amphigenous ; 
sori prominent, black, round.— II. Spores oval, pale brown, 20—22 x 23—25 
!>, epispore thick, slightly roughened.— III. Spores compressed-globose, 
divided by a distinct vertical septum, thus making each cell short boat- 
shaped, 28—30 x 34—35 P; epispore thick, coarsely tuberculate; apex 
thickened, pedicel very long, variously bent and curved, hyaline. On 
leaves of Salrta ballota?flora, New Mexico, August. 
ACcidium Draiee, Tracy & Gal —Hypophyllous; secidia scattered 
over the entire surface, bright yellow, large, border lacerate or coarsely 
fringed, spreading ; spores globose or oval, greenish-yellow, epispore thick, 
'smooth, 18—21 x 24—28 p. On leaves of Draba aurea , Coolidge, New 
Mexico, June 20, 1887. 
^Ecidium IIeliotropii, Tracy & Gal.—Amphigenous; spots not large, 
definite,purplish; secidia pale yellow.circulating,large;very long,the length 
about four times the diameter, border entire or sometimes lacerate; spores 
subglobose, epispore thin, minutely roughened, 16—19 p. On leaves and 
stems of Heliotropium curassaricum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 
17, 1887. 
-/Ecidium Eelisit, Tracy & Gal.—Amphigenous; spots rather small; 
secidia in definite clusters, often circinate, large, surrounded at the base 
by the ruptured epidermis, which is quite distinct, light orange-yellow, 
border lacerate; spores subglobose, with numerous vacuoles, epispore 
thick, slightly roughened, 18—22 P. On leaves of Chenopodium album , 
Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 16,1887. 
^Ecidium Lepidii, Tracy & Gal.—Spots conspicuous; secidia promi¬ 
nent, circulating, short, irregularly torn, soon becoming somewhat pul¬ 
verulent; spores subglobose, epispore thin, 12—14 /a On leaves of Lepi- 
dhrni montanum, Utah, July, 1887. 
AGARICS OF THE UNITED STATES—GENUS 
PANUS. 
EDWARD J. FORSTER, M. D., BOSTON. 
The whole fungus is fleshy-coriaceous, tough, drying up, of fibrous 
texture, which radiates into the hymenium ; gills concrete with the 
liymenophore, unequal, at length coriaceous, edge quite entire; spores 
even, white, somewhat cylindrical in species which have been examined. 
Growing on wood, various in form, lasting long. A genus which must 
be inserted in this series (between Lentinus and Xerotus) on account of its 
flesh, which is pliant and somewhat coriaceous, even in the gills, allied to 
the Lentini, but differing from them in the firmer, coriaceous and very 
entire gills. Either poisonous or owing to the toughness of the sub¬ 
stance not suitable for eating. Fr. Hym. Eur., p. 487, Stevenson, British 
Fungi, Yol. II, p. 158. Name, Panus, a swelling or turner, given to an 
arboreal fungus by Pliny, vide Fr. Epicr., p. 396. 
