L84 prccixiA 



verruculose or distinctly eerrucosi'-ivticulated, even sometimes 

 nearly smooth, brown. 28 — 4o x 18 — 30 //,; pedicels hyaline, 

 thin, short, deciduous. 



On Cicuta virosa. Rare. Mentioned by Plowrighl in his 



arrangement of the British species, Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. ii. 26; 

 he assigns sponnogones to it as well. I have seen no specimens. 



The fungus is similar to /'. Smyrnii in its secidia and teleutospores, 

 but differs in the presence (if uredospores. Description after Sydow. 



Distribution: Central and Northern Europe, Siberia, 

 Japan, North America. 



56. Puccinia Apii Desm. 



Trichobasis Apii Wallr. ; Cooke, Micr. Fung. p. 224. 



Puccinia Apii Desm. Cat. des PI. omis. p. 25. Cooke, Handb. p. 502; 



Micr. Fung. p. 208. Plowr. Ured. p. 156. Sydow, Monogr. i. 359. 



Fischer, Ured. Schweiz, p. 119. 



Spermogones. Hypophyllous, mostly surrounded by the 

 fficidia, often circinate, shining reddish-brown. 



sEcidiospores. yEcidia hypophyllous or on the petioles, on 

 minute, irregular, conspicuous, 3^ellowish spots, in roundish or on 

 the petioles elongated clusters, shortly cylindrical, with white 

 torn margin; spores delicately verruculose, orange, 17 — 24 yu.. 



Fig. 132. P. Apii. Teleutospores and uredospore. 



Uredospores. Sori hypophyllous, scattered, here and there 

 confluent, surrounded by the epidermis, pulverulent, cinnamon- 

 brown ; spores ellipsoid to obovate or even subclavate, shortly 

 echinulate, slightly thickened above (3 — 5 pu), brownish-yellow, 

 24 — 35 x 20 — 26 p,, with three equatorial germ-pores. 



Teleutospores. Sori hypophyllous, rarely epiphyllous, if on 



