on liliacea: 



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Plowright observed that the spores would not germinate at once, but, 

 by securing the affected leaves during the winter near some plants of 

 N. poeticus, he found the Puccinia reproduced next year and for eight 

 or nine years afterwards, though only on the tips of the leaves. The 

 reticulation of the spores varies in character, sometimes resolving itself 

 into longitudinal ridges or rows of warts. Mesospores and other abnormal 

 spores are recorded by Fischer. 



Distribution : Belgium, Italy, Carniola. 



102. Puccinia Asparagi DC. 



Puccinia Asparagi DC. Flor. fr. ii. 59-5. Cooke, Handb. p. 494 ; Micr. 

 Fung. p. 203. Plowr. Ured. p. 144. Sacc. Syll. vii. 601. Sydow, 

 Monogr. i. 015. Fischer, Ured. Schweiz, p. 235, f. 185. 



Spermogones. In little clusters, honey-yellow. 



^Ecidiospores. zEcidia in oblong groups on the stems, for a 

 long time closed, then shortly cup-shaped, with a whitish, erect, 

 torn margin; spore delicately verruculose, orange, 15 — 28 p. 



Fig. 180. P. Asparagi. Teleutospores anchmesospore. 



Uredospores. Sori oblong, narrow, flat, long covered by the 

 epidermis, cinnamon-brown ; spores globose to ovate, delicately 

 and densely echinulate, pale-brown, 20 — 30x17 — 25/i, with 

 four germ-pores. 



