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JEoidium heliotropi, Tracy and Galloway, is the same as JEcidium 
biforme, Peck, which was published first and therefore has precedence. 
JECIDIUM Palmeri, n. s. 
On Pentstemon virgatus. Willow Spring, Ariz., June, 1890, collected 
by Dr. Edward Palmer. Com. Dr. J. X. Pose. 
Spots more or less elongated, but little paler than rest of leaf: a little 
or not at all thickened. Pseudoperidia not deep seated, amphigenous; 
usually numerous and closely set, but not crowded together ; when first 
bursting the epidermis, ovate and nearly white, or with the faintest pos¬ 
sible purple tinge; soon becoming cyliudric-clavafce, with rounded or 
ovate apex; twice to at least four times as high as broad, straight or 
slightly curved; becoming flesh-colored fading to white above and at 
last becoming reddish-orange and sometimes opening by a small central 
orifice in the rounded apex, but more frequently opening by the fragile, 
white, broadly and irregularly ovate, to deeply cleft, acute, erect mar¬ 
ginal lobes, which latterly fall away, often irregularly, exposing to view 
the orange-colored spores which fill the tubes. Spores roundish or irregu¬ 
larly polygonal to ovate or oblong and variously compressed ; smooth, 
or very minutely roughened, epispore thickish; spore contents granular, 
with numerous yellow oil globules which escape freely under pressure; 
usually there are also two or three deep yellow and variously shaped 
nuclei. Spores orange colored, 16—26x16 — 23 y. 
This well marked ^Ecidium is very distinct from JEcidium pentstemo- 
nis , Schwein. 
Puccinia cladophlla, Peck, on Stephanomeria minor , in Botanical 
Gazette February, 1879, page 127, is the same as Puceinia Harhnessii , 
Vize, on Lygodesmia , in Grevillia, vol. 7, page 11, September, 1878. 
The latter has been referred to Puceinia liieracii, (Schum.) Mart., (P. 
Dietel in Hedwigia, 1889, page 181); therefore Puceinia cladophila must 
.also be referred to Puceinia liieracii , as that species is now understood. 
Puccinia minussensis, de Thiiinen, No. 1430 of de Tlminen’s My- 
cotlieca Universalis, is, like the preceding, Puccinia liieracii , (Schum.) 
Mart., and is very near the form on Troximon glaucum and the same as 
the form on Lactuca pulchella (syn. Mulgedium pulchellum), which is an 
American species nearly related to Mulgedium Siberica —the host of de 
Thumen’s present species. 
In Saccardo Sylloge, vol. 7, this Puccinia is left in specific rank, but 
the note after the description refers to its connection with P. liieracii. 
Puccinia bigelovue, Ellis and Everhart, in X. A. F., Xo. 2248, 
has accidentally been named after a wrong host genus. The specimens 
distributed in Xorth American Fungi are on Gutierrezia euthamice. The 
genus Gutierrezia is related to Bigelovia and it is likely that the fungus 
will yet be found on hosts in the latter genus, for which reason the 
authors of the species prefer to let the specific name go unchanged. 
Western mycologists would do well, however, to make a series of cul¬ 
tures with the spores of Puccinia bigelovia% Puccinia variolans , Dark¬ 
ness and of Puccinia variolans, var. caulicola, Ellis and Everhart, to see 
