386 UREDO 



Plowrighi mentions this with doubt ; Berkeley and Broome (I.e.) record 



it as found on Plantago al Wood Newton, and 



mi /'. lanceolata at Dolgelly Ralfs). In the 



Trans. Worcester. Nat. Club, L910, p. 291, it is 



recorded at Pirton Pool. These I have no1 seen. 



Plowrighl suggests that the Dolgelly specimen 



in.i\ be a Synchytriu'm, and some of those I have 



Fig. 289. U. Plantaginis. seen in herbaria under the name U. Plantaginis 



Uredosporea, on P. are n ,, t (Jredines. But in the British Museum 

 major, from the Isle of ,, „ . ,, , . ,. . 



Wight specimi n there is one on /'. major, collected in the Isle of 



Wighi by J. F. Rayner, October, 1907, which 



appears to belong to this class; the foregoing description is taken from 



this specimen, the son lie in the centre of thickened yellow spots which 



are sometimes confluent. 



Uredo Tropaeoli Desm. 



Uredo Tropaeoli Desm. Ann. Sci. Nat. l^."ii;. vi. 243. Cooke, Journ. 

 Bot. iv. 97; Handb. p. 528; Micr. Fung. p. 216. Plowr. Ured. 

 p. 258. Sacc. Syll. vii. 862. 



Uredospores. Sori hypophyllous, on pale-yellow spots. 

 minute, roundish, scattered or confluent : spores subglobose 

 to ovoid, orange-yellow, 20 fx diam. 



On leaves of Tropaeolum aduncum (= T. canariense). Very 

 rare; Shere, near Guildford, October, 1865 (Dr Capron). 



This species has been found only once in England. Desruazieres who 

 records it on Tropaeolum minus, in August, says that it causes, on the 

 upper face of the leaf, numerous irregular spots, barely 1 mm. across. 

 It has been recorded from France and Belgium. 



o 



iEcidium Hellebori Fischer. 



jE. Hellebori Fischer, Ured. Schweiz, p. .">26. 



Spermogones. Epiphyllous, or hypophyllous amongst the 

 secidia, immersed, with projecting paraphyses, about 135 — 150/* 

 diam. 



jEcidiospores. zEcidia hypophyllous, crowded, in roundish 

 groups, cup-shaped, with a torn spreading margin ; spores 

 densely verruculose, 18 — 24 x 18 — 21 /j,. 



On Helleborus vi?-idis. May. 



Included with all reserve. Winter mentions an secidium on Helleborus 

 foetidus (Pilze, p. 269), which he places under JEc. Ranunculaeearum. 



