ON VERONICA 



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The secidia may be found together with the teleutospores right up to 

 September, often on the same spot. This species is very different from 

 the others on Galium ; the teleuto-sori, as Cooke says, are " firm and 

 compact like little spots of pitch," and may be accompanied by swellings 

 and distortion. There are no uredospores. 



Distribution : Central and Northern Europe, India, North 

 America. 



41. Puccinia VeronicaB Schrot. 



P. Veronicae Schrot. Pilz. Schles. p. 347. Plowr. Ured. p. 211 p.p. 

 Sydow, Monog. i. 256. Fischer, Ured. Schweiz, p. 323, f. 235. 



Teleutospores. Sori hypophyllous, on orbicular brown spots, 

 minute, scattered or circinate, 

 roundish, at first yello wish- 

 brown, then brown ; spores 

 fusoid, generally rounded above 

 and thickened (up to 5 //,), 

 hardly constricted, tapering 

 below, smooth, yellowish or 

 very pale brown, 28 — 52 x 

 10 — 16 ix, pedicels hyaline, 

 persistent, as long as the spore 

 or shorter. 



On Veronica montana. June (or earlier) to October. Not 

 common. (Fig. 119.) 



Distinguished from P. Veronicarum by the very clear- coloured and 

 narrower spores, which are less strongly thickened at the apex. It has 

 also only one form of spore, viz. that with persistent pedicel which 

 germinates as soon as mature. It does not occur on V. alpina. 



Distribution : Western and Central Europe. 



Fig. 119. P. Veronicae. 

 Teleutospores. 



42. Puccinia Veronicarum DC. 



/'. Veronicarum DC. Flor. fr. ii. 594. Cooke, Handb. p. 496 ; Micr. 

 Fung. p. 204. Plowr. Ured. p. 214. Sydow, Monog. i. 257. 

 Fischer, Ured. Schweiz, p. 323, f. 236. See Sacc. Syll. vii. 685. 



Teleutospores. Sori hypophyllous, on irregular or roundish 

 brown spots, circinate, minute, roundish, often confluent, some 



