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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI. 
By J. B. Ellis. 
Pod axon mexicanum n. sp. —On the ground in a garden, near the 
bay, at Ajia Bampo, Sonora, Mexico, November, 1890. (Dr. Edward 
Palmer.) Whole plant, 4-8 cm high. Stipe about l cm thick at the base, 
tapering above and running through to the vertex of the peridium; 
subbulbous, hollow, the cavity at first filled with silky fibers. Flesh 
white, except at the point where it enters the peridium, where it is of 
a bright orange color (within). Peridium ovate, 2-3J cm high, 2-3 em 
wide, thin, white, and like the stipe clothed with broad, yellowish, 
appressed scales, attached to the stipe below at first, then separating, 
with the margin laterate-sublobate. Capillitium attached to the stipe 
or to the inner surface of the peridium, consisting of branching, yel¬ 
lowish threads 3-8// in diameter, with abundant yellowish olive globose 
or ovate, 8-12// spores, with some larger (12-15//) ones intermixed. 
Uromyces RHYNCOSPORyE n. sp. —On Rhyncospora glomerata . 
Pennsville, Salem County, N. J., October, 1881. (A. Commons.) I and 
II not seen, (m.) Sori liypopliyllous, scattered or aggregated and sub- 
confluent, orbicular or subelongated, J-l mm in diameter, black, naked, 
and loosely embraced by the margin of the ruptured epidermis. Teleu- 
tospores clavate, 20-25 by 8-12//, strongly thickened and darker colored 
at the apex, which is generally at first prolonged into a beak 10- 12/i 
long, making the spore lanceolate; sometimes this beak is permanent, 
but oftener the spore becomes obtuse or even squarely or obliquely 
truncate. Pedicels 20-25/* long, subequal or slightly thickened at the 
base, hyaline or yellowish. This species is different from Uromyces 
caricis Peck. [Which has been shown by Dietel, in Hedwigia , vol. 
28, i>. 22, to be the uredo of Puccinia caricis-strictce Dietel.— Ed.] 
Puccini a microica n. sp .—On Sanicula (?). Garrett Park, Md., 
May, 1890. (E. A. South worth.) iEeidia hypophyllous, crowded on 
slightly thickened suborbicular spots l|-2 ram across, papilliform and 
closed at first, then open, shallow, cup-shaped, J mm in diameter, with 
a narrow granular-stellate, evanescent border. Spores orange, sub- 
globose 15-22//, or more or less irregular. Uredospores in the same 
sori with the teleutospores, not abundant, subglobose, pale, faintly 
aeuleolate, 18-22// in diameter. Teleutospores in minute sphseriiform 
sori mixed with the secidia, about in diameter, at first covered by 
the epidermis, then naked above and dark brown, mostly biconical 
(some of them oblong or elliptical). Slightly constricted, pale brown, 
with a small, prominent hyaline, central or oblique papilla at the apex, 
25-45 by 14-20//, with very short pedicels. Epispore smooth. 
Puccinia montanensis n. sp .—On Elymus condensatus. Helena, 
Mont., July, 1891. (Pev. F. D. Kelsey). I and II not seen. (ill.) 
Sori mostly linear, lying between the nerves of the leaf and often con- 
