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101. Puccinia Schroeteri Pass. 



Pucdnia Schroeteri Pass. Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. vii. 2.")."). W. (;. 

 Smith. Gard. Chron. L889, v. 725, f. 118. Wolley-Dod, Journ. 

 li'ny. Hurt. S(ic. xii. p. liii. Plowr. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. i. 57. 

 Sacc. Syll. vii. 732. Sydow, Monogr. i. 608. Fischer. [Jred. 

 Schweiz, p. 78, f. 59. 



Teh ntnspores. Sori amphigenous, chiefly epiphyllous, large, 

 oblong or elliptic, surrouni led by a brownish-violet discoloration, 

 1 — 3 mm. long, solitary or in small clusters, long covered or 

 half uncovered and surrounded by the lead-coloured epidermis, 



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Pig. 179. P. Schroeteri. a, meso- and teleutospore, from the original specimen 

 of W. G. Smith ; I, teleutospore and sori on leaf of daffodil, from Cooke's 

 specimen. 



blackish-brown : spores ellipsoid or oblong, rounded at both 

 ends, not thickened above, hardly constricted, obscurely reticu- 

 lated, golden-brown, then chestnut, 40 — 60 x 25 — 20 /x : pedicels 

 hyaline, short, thick, deciduous ; raesospores also occur. 



On Jonquil and Narcissus poetic as. Very rare: Malpas, 

 May, 1880 (Rev. C. Wolley-Dod) ; in Gard. Chron. and Journ. 

 Roy. Hort. Soc. (I.e.) it is stated to have been found also on the 

 "common double Narcissus" (? X. telamonius plenus). There 

 .-in- some specimens in Herb. Brit. Mus. on daffodil leaves, sent 

 to the Gard. Chron. by a correspondent, May, 1804, and labelled 

 P. Liliacearum by Cooke, which on examination prove to be 

 this species. (Fig. 170.) 



