428 PROCEEDINGS : BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Host: Panicum Crus-galli, Conn., Ia., Ill., Mass., N. Car. 
This species is sometimes found on the same host plant with Usti- 
lago sphaerogena which also occurs in the ovaries. Brefeld and 
Setchell have described the germination of the spores. The smut 
evidently has a much wider distribution than that given, as the 
writer himself has collected it in four of the above States. Liter¬ 
ature: 28, 162. 
Tolyposporium Eriocauli Clint. 
Tolyposporium Eriocauli Clint., Rhodora, 3 : 82. 1901. 
Exsiccati: Tolyposporium Eriocauli Clint., on Eriocaulon septangulare, 
Seym. & Earle, Econ. Fungi Clinton Ust. Supp., C 54. 
Sori in ovaries, ovoid, somewhat two lobed, 1-2 mm. in length, 
very inconspicuous in the infected heads, covered by a grayish 
membrane which on rupture discloses the granular, spore mass; 
spore balls black, perfectly opaque, irregularly oblong to subspheri- 
cal, frequently somewhat angled, firm, cpmposed of many spores, 
65-275 p in length; spores light colored, subspherical to spherical, 
adhering together by dark folds of their outer membrane which on 
rupture of balls shows as reticulations or spine-like processes or 
even becomes entirely detached, 8-11 p in diameter exclusive of 
processes. 
Host: Eriocaulon septangulare , Mass, (type), N. H. 
This species differs from Tolyposporium bullatum , the only other 
species of this genus reported from North America, in the smaller 
sori and uniformly spherical spores, which have darker more evi¬ 
dent folds in their outer coat. The germination has been reported 
by the writer. Literature : 28. 
Testicularia Klotz. 
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Linnaea, 7 : 202. 1832. 
{Milleria Pk., Ann. Rep. N. Y. St. Mus Nat. Hist., 31 • 40. 1879.) 
Type : Testicularia Cyperi Klotz. 
Host: Cyperaceae. N. Amer. 
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Sori in the inflorescence, possibly limited to the ovaries, forming 
