Chrysomyxa pyrolae Rostr. 1881

Melampsoropsis pyrolae (DC.) Arth. Result. Sci. Congr. Bot
Vienne 338. 1906.
Aecidium (?) Pirolae DC. Fl. Fr. 6 : 99. 1815.
Caeoma {Aecidium) pyrolatum Schw. Trans, Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4 : 294. 1832. Uredo pirotatum Korn. Hedwigia 16 : 28. 1877. Chrysomyxa pirolatum Wint. in Rab. Krypt. Fl. I 1 : 250, 1881. Chrysomyxa Pirolae Rostr. Bot. Centr. 3 : 126. 1881.
O. and I. Pycnia and aecia unknown.
Uredinia hypophyllous, small, 1 mm. in diameter, round, eveniy distributed, yellowish-red, pulverulent, ruptured epidermis evident; peridium delicate, walls smooth, colorless, thin, lp urediniospores elliptical or obovate, often angular, 16-23 by 20-30,"; wall colorless, medium thick, 1.5-2,", prominently verrucose with somewhat deciduous warts ; contents orange-red.
III, Telia hypophyllous, evenly and closely scattered, small, round, 0.2-0,4 mm. across, flat, waxy, at first yellowish-red, afterward blood-red ; teliospores irregularly ellipsoid, 7-9 by 12-19/", in a series 100-130," long; wall colorless, smooth, thin, 1 ," ; basidiospores 7-8 p in diameter.
On Pyrolaceae :
Moneses unifiora (1^.) A. Gray (M. grandifiora S. F. Gray), Colorado, Maine, Wyoming; Alaska; Quebec.
Pyrola asari folia Michx. , Colorado, Pennsylvania.
Pyrola chloranlha Sw., Colorado, New York, Wyoming.
Pyrola ellipiica Nutt., Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania.
Pyrola grandifiora Radius, Greenland.
Pyrola minor l^., Greenland. Pyrola rotundifolia L., Maine, New Hampshire ; Quebec.
Pyrola secunda L-, Colorado, Michigan. Minnesota, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming; Alaska;
Ontario, Prince Edward Island. Pyrola uliginosa Torr., California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Maryland, Massa-
chusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Utah ; Alaska. Type locality : Jura, France, on Pyrola secunda.
Distribution : Pennsylvania to Ohio and Nevada, northward, especially in the mountains, to Greenland and Alaska ; also in Europe.
TT . Ex J^ CCA ^ I: Rllis & Ev N Am Fun »i 1812; Ellis & Ev. Fungi Columb. 1814; Thiim. Myc. Univ. 752 ; Clements, Crypt. Form. Colo. 149.

Chrysomyxa pyrolae, is a species of rust fungi in the family Coleosporiaceae that can be found in such US states such as Alabama, Colorado, Maine and Vermont.