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long, rounded at base and apex though sometimes tapering in 
both, usually not constricted at the septum, occasionally slightly 
so, walls uniformly and moderately thick, very coarsely tuber- 
culate, almost opaque black, 26.2-37.5 x 47.5-70/x; pedicel thick, 
half the length of the spore, hyaline, deciduous. Paraphyses 
present at border of sorus, irregularly bent clavate, hyaline. 
The above description is made entirely from our own material 
and adds stages I and II to the published description. This 
material was compared with the type material in the Harkness 
herbarium of fungi in the California Academy of Science and 
found to be identical with it. Owing to the meagreness of the 
type material only a small number of spores could be examined. 
These measured 30-35 x 43.7-50 /x, while in the original descrip¬ 
tion they are given as 22-28 x 36-42 /x. “Septum scarcely visible” 
was probably due to the almost opaque condition of the cell wall. 
The pedicel is also described “as long as the spore.” A number 
of sections through the leaf of our material, having the spores 
attached, failed to show any equaling the spore length but all 
were quite uniformly half the length of the spore. 
I. II. On Brodiaea capitata. Rocky point near Searsville 
Lake, San Mateo County. Jan. 24, 1904. (Thompson). 
III. Same host and location as I. and II. April 19, 1903. 
(Thompson). 
Puccinia moreniana Dudley & Thompson n. sp. 
III. Hypophyllous; sori scattered, pustulate, round to long- 
oblong, 1-3 x 1-12 mm., for some time covered by the epidermis 
which at length breaks away irregularly, leaving the sori naked, 
pulverulent, chestnut-brown; spores very irregular in size and 
frequently so in shape, the more common form being oblong with 
rounded or obliquely tapering apex and rounded or tapering base, 
moderately constricted at the septum, 16.2-21.2 x 30-40 /x, averag¬ 
ing 19 x 35 /x. Variations in length and diameter give a measure¬ 
ment range of 16.2-25 x 30-43.7 /x. Unicellular spores of various 
sizes and shapes are frequent. All spores are light brown, walls 
thin throughout, smooth; pedicel long, 30-60 /x, tapering, rough, 
fragile, readily breaking away at the spore. 
On Brodiaea capitata, by the old cement mill, Searsville Lake, 
at the base of Sierra Morena, San Mateo County. April 19, 
1903. (Thompson). 
Puccinia monardellae Dudley & Thompson n. sp. 
I. Causes a swollen distortion of the young twigs, either 
the whole or only the basal portion of the twig, the leaves on 
these parts correspondingly distorted; over the surface of both 
are scattered the aecidia; the swollen twigs have a purple epi¬ 
dermis ; aecidia long and slender cylindrical with irregularly lac¬ 
erated margins which are not recurved; spores irregularly angu¬ 
lar, globose to oblong, very minutely and closely verrucose, con- 
