378 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
extreme variation from U. violacea as found in this country. Silene 
Watsoni is also a host for the species. The germination of the vari¬ 
ety lias not been observed. Brefeld has described that of U. major. 
Literature : 29, 44. 
Ustilago Gayophyti Hark. 
Ustilago gayophiti Hark., Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci., 1 : 36. 1884. 
Sori in seeds, upon dehiscence of ovary showing as small some¬ 
what dusty purple black masses ; spores rather dark purple, ovoid or 
ovate to spherical, provided with small reticulations about 1 p in 
depth and width, chiefly 12-18 p in length. 
Hosts : Gayophytum lasiospermum, Ore. ; G. ramosissimum , 
Calif, (type), Ore. 
The specimen of this fungus from Oregon in the Harvard crypt o- 
gamic herbarium was rather scanty but showed spores averaging 
smaller than that from California on the same host. This species 
comes near the Ustilago group on Polygonaceae which includes such 
forms as JJ. Rumicis and TJ. Paviatorei. The germination of the 
species is not known. 
Ustilago CalancLriniae Clint, n. sp. 
Sori in the flowers, enclosed by the floral envelopes, about 3 or 4 
mm. in diameter, forming a purplish black dusty spore mass; spores 
daik i eddish purple, ovoid to subspherical or spherical, regularly and 
rather minutely reticulately winged (with reticulations about 1.5-2 p 
wide and 1-2 p high), 13.5-17 p in length. 
Hosts : Calandrinia Breweri , Calif, (type) ; C. Menziesii , Calif. 
The writer is indebted to Professor Farlow for the specimens of 
this species, of which the type was collected by him, at Santa Bar¬ 
bara in 1886, and the other by Harkness. Apparently this is the 
only smut that has been reported on a host belonging to the Portu- 
lacaceae. 
Ustilago anomala Ivze. 
Ustilago anomala Ivze., Fungi Sel. Exs., 23. 1875. 
Ustilago pallida Schrot., Apei’ 9 . Syst. Ust., 30. 1877. 
Exsiccati : Z stilago- anomala Ivze., on Polygonum cilinode, Ell., N. A. 
Fungi, 1094, Seym. & Earle, Econ. Fungi, 364 ; on Polygonum Convolvu¬ 
lus, Seym. & Earle, Econ. Fungi Clinton Ust. Supp., C 63. 
