174 PUCCINI A 



On leaves, petioles and stems of Glechoma hederacea 

 {Nepeta Glechoma). June — October. Not uncommon. (Fig. 

 L23.) 



The sori are especially large, round and compact late in the season, 

 when they produce spores which are darker and will not germinate 

 immediately (as the others do), but only after the winter's rest. I have a 

 specimen, resembling this species, on Prunclfn cidgari* from Sutton Park, 

 Warwicks. ; Plowright mentions a similar one from Ben Lawers(2.c. p. 215). 



Distribution : Europe, Siberia, Japan. 



46. Puccinia Betonicae DC. 



Puccini'/ Anemones var. Betonicae A. et S. Consp. p. L31. 



P. Betonicae DC. Flor. fr. vi. 57. Cooke, Handb. p. 4!)7 ; Micr. Fung. 



p. 205. Grove, in Card. Chron. xxiv. 180, f. 38 L885 . Plowr. 



Ured. p. 199. Sacc. Syll. vii. 677 p.p. Sydow, Monogr. i. 275. 



Fischer, Ured. Schweiz, p. 173, f. 134. 



Teleutospores. Sori hypophyllous, on pallid irregular spots, 

 numerous, aggregated in patches, or more generally spreading 

 over nearly the whole of a leaf, more or less crowded on the 

 nerves, minute, perfectly round, surrounded by the torn erect 

 epidermis, pulverulent, reddish-brown ; spores ellipsoid to 



Fig. 124. P. Betonicae. Normal and abnormal teleutospores. 



ovate, rounded above with a small paler hemispherical pore- 

 cap, slightly constricted, rounded below, smooth, yellow-brown, 

 27 — 45 x 15 — 24 fj, ; pedicels thin, hyaline, deciduous, about as 

 long as the spore ; a few oval mesospores intermixed. 



On Betonica officinalis (Stachys Betonica). Not common. 

 May — September. (Fig. 124.) 



The affected leaves are paler, narrower, and stand more erect than the 

 healthy ones. Besides the mesospores, other anomalies are occasionally 



