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NEW WESTERN FUNGI. 
By J. B. Ellis and B. T. Galloway. 
Phobia thermopsidis, n. s. On dead stems of T her mop ah rhom- 
hifolia. Helena, Mont. Summer of 1888, F. H. Kelsey, Com. F. W. 
Anderson, No. 413. Peritliecia gregarious, subcuticular raising and 
rupturing the epidermis, but hardly erumpent, subhemispheric with 
papilliform ostiolum. Sporules oblong-hyaline 2-nucleate, not curved, 
15-20 by o-6/i. 
Piileospora oxytropidis, n. s. On Oxytropis Lamberti. Great 
Falls, Montana, June, 1888. F. W. Anderson, No. 258. Peritliecia 
amphigenous, innate-erumpent, about 200// in diameter, scattered, 
black. Sporules cylindrical or ovoid, 40-50 by 3^-4^//., hyaline, straight, 
obtuse, nucleate, issuing in a whitish mass. 
1 > estalozziella Andersoni, u. s. On living leaves of Asclepias or 
Apocynum. Sand Coulee, Mont. September, 1888. F. W. Anderson, 
No. 289, Acervuli amphigenous, thickly scattered over the leaf, black, 
erumpent, discoid, 150-200/1 in diameter. Sporules ovate-elliptical, 
subacute, hyaline, continuous, 15-22 by 7-10//, with an irregularly 
branched hyaline, 3-4-parted crest of spreading bristles or hairs 12-15// 
long, much as in Pestolozziella subsessilh , S. & E. The basidia also are 
obscure or wanting, as in that species. The affected leaves turn yellow 
and then brown. 
Dicoccum lathyrmum, n. s. On living leaves of Lathyrus ochro- 
leucus , Highwood Canon, in the nighwood Mountains, Montana, Leg¬ 
it. S. Williamson, Com. F. W. Anderson, No. 301. Conidia oblong, 
1 -septate, slightly constricted, straight, olivaceous, granular, 20-22 by 
7-8//, forming small, subconfluent, chestnut-colored, velutinous patches 
on the under side of the leaves (2-3 mm in extent), limited by the veinlets, 
not on any definite spot, but causing the leaf to turn slightly yellowish 
above. There is no appreciable mycelium, at least on the surface of 
the leaf. 
Peziza yogoensis, n. s. On dead leaves of Carex. Yogo, in the 
Pelt Mountains, Montana, July, Leg. 1888,11. S. Williamson, Com. F. W. 
Anderson, No. 317. Erumpent of fibrous texture, 200// in diameter, 
margin fimbriate and incurved, substance of the peritliecia olivaceous. 
Disk pale, asci oblong, 55-60 by 15-18//, sessile, paraphyses stout, 
about equal to the asci; not abundant. Sporidia oblique or biseriate, 
oblong, 2-nucleate, hyaline, rounded at the ends and a little narrower 
at one end, not curved, 13-15 by 4-5//. 
On the same leaves is a JSphccrella , with gregarious peritliecia, oblong, 
inequilateral, 35 by 12//, sessile asci, and crowded biseriate, oblong 
12-15 by 3i-4//, sporidia. Very near S. Wichuriaqa , Schroet. 
Epicoccum rubripes, n. a. On dead herbaceous stems, Montana. 
Anderson, No. 290. Sporodochia gregarious, hemispheric, black, 
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