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43. Peronospora claytoniae Farlow. Enumeration of the Peronosporese of the 
United States, No. 11, <Bot. Gaz., vol. vm, No. 10, October, 1883, p. 314. 
On leaves of Portulacacese. 
On Claytonia Virginica L. M. Varney, April 28,1891, Piney Branch, 
Rock Creek, I). C. 
44. Peronospora rubi. Rabenhorst, Fungi europsei, No. 2676. (1882.) 
On leaves of Rosacea 4 , tribe Rubese. 
On Rubus villosus Ait. M. B. Waite, No. 270, September 8, 1888, 
Oregon, Ogle County, Ill. M. B. Waite, No. 271, September 10, 1888, 
Oregon, Ogle County, Ill. M. B. Waite, No. 279, September 10, 1889, 
Oregon, Ogle County, Ill. M. B. Waite, No. 560, Oct. 7, 1891, Zoolog. 
Park, Washington, D. C. 
On Rubus Canadensis L. P. H. Dorsett and W. T. Swingle, No. 4029, 
October 29, 1891, Garrett Park, Montgomery County, Md. W. T. 
Swingle, No. 4030, October 29,1891, Rockville, Montgomery County, Md. 
B. T. Galloway and P. H. Dorsett, November 8, 1891, Garrett Park, 
Montgomery County, Md. In the fall of 1891 many of the individuals of 
this host showed the bright red spots caused by the parasite. 
45. Peronospora sparsa Berkeley. <Rard. Chron. and Agric. Gaz., London, April 
5, 1862, pp. 307 and 308 with fig. 
On leaves of Rosacese, tribe Roseae. 
On Rosa sp. cult. D. G. Fairchild, June, 1891, in greenhouse Geneva, 
Ontario County, N. Y. Mr. Fairchild reports this species as very de¬ 
structive, completely defoliating the plants. Bordeaux mixture was 
afterward used with good success in preventing it. 
46. Peronospora sordida Berkeley & Broome. Notices of British Fungi, No. 953. 
<Ann. and Mag. Nat. His., 3d ser., vol. vii, London, June, 1861, p. 449. 
On leaves of Scroplmlariacefe. 
On ScropTiularia nodosa L. C. H. Demetrio, June, 1889, Sweet 
Springs, Saline County, Mo. M. B. Waite, No.. 536, August 25, 1888, 
Urbana, Champaign County, Ill. M. B. Waite, No. 543, September 11, 
1888, Rochelle, Ogle County, Ill. M. B. Waite, No. 317, September 
14, 1889, Oregon, Ogle County, Ill. M. B. Waite, No. 142, September, 
1889, Oregon, Ogle County, Ill. 
NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI. 
By J. B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart. 
PucciniA Suksdorfii, n. sp. — On leaves of Troximon glaucum. Wash¬ 
ington (Suksdorf) and Helena, Mont. (Kelsey). I and ii not seen; 
(iii) sori small, black, naked almost from the first, subconfluent, amphi- 
genous, the leaf often marked with a small round purplish spot on 
the side opposite the sori. Teleutospores short-elliptical, obtuse and 
broadly rounded at both ends, deep brown, granular-roughened all over 
as if sprinkled with minute grains of sugar, constricted at the septum; 
40-50 x 25-30/r, on i>edicels scarcely longer than the spores. 
