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Some West American Fungi 
ioo. Uromyces howei Peck. 
On Asclepias syriaca L. 
Belpre, Washington Co., O. Sept. 3, 1902. 
Coll. W. A. Kellerman. 
“Trichobasis Howei n. sp. 
“Spore clusters scattered or subconfluent, hypogenous, surrounded 
by the ruptured epidermis, from one-half to one line in diameter; 
spores brown, subglobose, roughened with slight indentations, 1-1200 in.- 
1-1000 in. in diameter.” “The spore clusters are sometimes sparingly, 
sometimes profusely scattered over the under surface of the leaf, or 
over a part of it. The spores are sometimes a little longer than broad, 
sometimes subpyriform, and occasionally furnished with a slight pedicel.” 
Chas. H. Peck, Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the 
State of New York, 23:58. 1873. 
NOTES ON SOME WEST AMERICAN FUNGI. 
P. L. RICKER. 
The following list is made up largely of some fungi col¬ 
lected by Messrs. E. D. Merrill and E. V. Wilcox in Wyoming 
and Idaho during the summer of 1901. The other notes were 
made from specimens found on grasses in the herbarium of the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. The author is indebted to 
Dr. J. C. Arthur for verification of the determinations and de¬ 
scriptions of the Uredinaceae. Two species which have not been 
determined are included to call the attention of botanists to them 
in hopes that other collections may be made. The author would 
be glad to receive additional specimens of both for further study. 
P YRENOM Y CETACE^E. 
Lasiobotrys lonicer^e subcircinata E. & E. — On Sym- 
phoricarpus pauciflorus, No. 1216, Merrill and Wilcox, Leucite 
Hills, Wyo. June 16. 
Physalospora aurantia E. & E.— On Astragalus pectina- 
tus. No. 1222, Merrill and Wilcox, Laramie River, 16 miles S. 
W. of Laramie, Wyo. 
Sph^erotheca humuli (DC.) Burr. — On Collomia linea¬ 
ris. No. 1226, Merrill and Wilcox, St. Anthony, Idaho, July 5. 
Ustilago caricis (Pers.) Fckl. — On Carex geyeri. No. 
1205, Merrill and Wilcox, Jenny’s Lake, Wyo., July 25. 
Ustilago funalis E. & E.. — On Eriocoma cuspidata. Nos. 
1197 and 1198, Merrill and Wilcox, Flockert’s Ranch, Wyo., 
June 30. 
