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Spermogones. In little clusters, honey-coloured. 



sEcidiospores. iEcidia hypophyllous or on the more or less 

 swollen petioles and stems, clustered in round elongated or 

 irregular groups, cup-shaped, with torn white revolute margin ; 

 spores delicately verruculose, pallid-orange, 15 — 25 /x. 



Uredospores. Sori hypophyllous, on yellowish spots, scat- 

 tered or in little groups, very minute, roundish or oblong, soon 

 naked, pulverulent, yellowish-brown; spores more or less globose, 

 delicately echinulate, brownish, 20 — 26 /u. 



Fig. 192. P. paludosa. Teleutospores on C. vulgaris, Norfolk. 



Teleutospores. Sori hypophyllous, minute, scattered or 

 arranged in long lines, pulvinate, quite black; spores clavate, 

 rounded above and strongly thickened (up to 11 fi), constricted, 

 tapering below, smooth, brown (upper cell very dark), 45 — 60 

 x 16 — 22 n : pedicels brownish, persistent, rather long. 



^Ecidia on Pedicularis palustris, June, July ; uredo- and 

 teleutospores on Care® fulva, G. panicea(l), G. stricta, C. 

 vulgaris (Goodenovii), from July onwards. As usual on Carex, 

 the teleutospores can be found throughout the winter. Rare : 

 Norfolk, Orkney. (Fig. 192.) 



Distribution : Central and Northern Europe. 



116. Puccinia uliginosa Juel. 



JEcidium Parnassiae Gravis, in Bot. Gall. ii. 904. Cooke, Micr. Fung. 

 p. 198; Greviilea, i. 8 and ii. 161. Plowr. Ured. p. 129. Irish 

 Naturalist, Oct. 1907, p. 321. 



