Urocystis carcinodes (Berk. & M. A. Curtis) E. Fisch. 1877

Urocystis carcinodes (B. & C.) Fisch. de Waldh. Apergu
Syst. Ust. 38. 1877.
Thecaphora carcinodes B. & C, Grevillea 3 : 58. 1874.
Sori on stems, petioles, or midribs, rarely on blades, forming very conspicuous outbreaks that cause considerable distortion of infected parts, upon rupture disclosing a dusty brown-black spore-mass; spore-balls ovoid to subspherical, firm, chiefly 25-45 fi in length; sterile cells hyaline or yellowish-tinted, ovoid to subspherical, usually completely covering the spores, often thick-walled, 6-12 fi in length ; spores reddish-brown, ovoid to subspherical or polyhedral, smooth, generally 1-6 in a ball, usually 12-16 Hin length.
On Ranunculaceae :
Actaea alba, WegtJS^ginia.
Actaea a rgu ta , ^ta^
Actaea sp., Pennsylvania.
A tra^ene occidentalism Utah,
Cimicifuga racemosa, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee. Type locality: Pennsylvania, on Cimicifuga racemosa. '
Distribution : Pennsylvania to North Carolina and Utah.