122. Rev. MaKe Obfervations upon certain Fungi ' 
CThe next nT ORA of thé wheat that I. thall notice, is that ZEcid/um 
. -Rnownto agriculturifts by the name of the Red Gum.- This fpecies 
grows ufually upon the infide of the glumes of the calyx and of the 
exterior valvule.of the corolla, under. their epidermis; which, when 
the plant is ripe, burfts, and emits a powder of a bright orange colour, — 
-This little plant, which is now well known (5), does not appear to — 
be materially injurious.to the grain, if at all.. -I have feen ears full 
of it, with very plump:kernels.. I. have alfo found it upon branded 
' ears, Before the cuticle which covers. the feed of this Fungus burfts, 
ias very much em guise of a fmall pu tul pes the nahen 
pame í E E S TEE ox DIIS tora bite ib: teris. Sh i 
- Another steno cibis order, which:is' ‘very: filion upon mahieag, 
is'that named by Mr. Lambert in the Linnean Tranfaétions (7), and . 
by: Mr. Sowerby in his elegant work upon Englith Fungi (v), Uredo 
ramen lt grows upon. the. foliage, culm, and glumes, burfting 
in longi udinal ftreaks from under the epider us. "Yhefe gentlemen 
»prefent this plant as ‘the blight of the wheat, which in certain fea- - 
fons and foils is fo injurious to. that | grain: I had myfelf for fome ` 
time fufpeéted that it was the caufe of that difeafe ; but after re- 
_ peated examination of ears the ftraw of which was quite black with 
it, I had given up that opinion, for in no one inftance was the grain 
injured by it.- Yet I would by. no means be:underf 
= alfertion of thief gap in totum. +: This} lant, : 
p ite Mudiodi Durst, it to fhrink i odi Mr. sp miuus s own = P 
experience feems to confirm this obfervation:: unleís the? mifchievous 
plant which I thall next men tion ‘had taken» poifeffion of the ear) at 
: the fame time that the-Urzdo: S accedi had: VES cs the = 
y rd uai 
— Tr vol. i. on 249, 250. / o la. a ‘ive pe 193, 194. 
de Engli ifh Fungi, vol. iis tabs exi, 0 hors a 
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