192 British Ftmgi 



wliitisli, then yellow or brownish, at first producing the 

 gonidia ; resting-spores globose, epispore smooth, 

 about 1 /u, thick, pale brown, 11-14 /a diameter; 

 gonidia colourless, continuous, elongato-fusiform or 

 filiform, 30-40 x 2-3 /^. 



Entyloma ranunculi^ Schroeter, Pilze, Schles. p, 

 282; Sacc. Syll. vii. ii. n. 1793; Plow. Brit. Ured. 

 and Ustilag. p. 290. 



Fusidium ranunculi, Bon. Hdbk. Myc. p. 43. 



Glfeosporium ficarise, Cke. Hdbk. p. 475. 



On Ranunculus repens, R. sceleratuSj Ficaria ra- 

 nunculus. Common, especially on tbe last-named host. 



Fntyloma Trailii, Mass. 



Spots on stems (irregularly rounded or oval), or 

 more often on leaves, affecting the segments on all 

 their surfaces, small, nearly white, while gonidia are 

 being formed, but becoming brown and dry ; gonidia 

 (produced freely on gonidiophores pushed out in 

 clusters from th.e stomata) fusiform or filiform, 15- 

 20 X 1*5-2 /x, pale yellowish, pluriguttulate or faintly 

 3 — 4 septate ; resting-spores abundantly formed in the 

 tissues of the host, round or polygonal from pressure, 

 10-12 yL6 in diameter; epispore smooth, about 1'5 fju 

 thick, at first hyaline, becoming brown. 



Entyloma matricarise, Trail, in Plow. Brit. Ured. 

 and Ustilag. p. 291. 



On Matricaria inodora. Rare. 



Apparently very closely allied to Fntyloma matri- 

 carise, Rostr. in Thum. Myc. Univ. n. 2223, but the 

 gonidia in the latter are elliptical, and measure 

 4-6 X 2-2-5 fi. 



