.ecidium 387 



Rev. C. Wolley-Dod records (Journ. Roy. Hort. Sue. xii. p. liii.) an aecidiurn 

 allied to JEc. Ficariae on his Hellebores at Malpas. I have not met 

 with any other reference to an secidium on that genus. The whole of the 

 description is taken from Fischer, who adds that it belongs presumably to 

 a heteroecious species. 



JEcidium Ranunculacearum I >C. var. Linguae. 



JE. Ranunculacearum DC. Blor. fr. vi. 97 p.p. Grev. Flor. Edin. 

 p. 446. Plowr. Tied. p. 266. 



JEcidiospores. ^Ecidia hypophyllous, in roundish or elongated 

 clusters of various sizes, cup-shaped, whitish, with a brittle 

 margin; spores polygonal, orange-yellow, 17—28x14 — 20 fi. 



On Ranunculus Lingua. Very rare: Duddingston Loch 

 (Dr Greville). 



It was at one time suggested by the brothers Sydow that this secidium 

 belonged to their P("»v////" Galamagrostidis on Calamagrostis neglecta, hut 

 they have since seen reason to doubt the truth of this idea. 



iEcidium Poterii Cooke. 



JEcidiwm Poterii Cooke, Journ. Bot. ii. 39, pi. 14, f. 3 ; Handb. 

 p. 540; Micr. Fung. p. 198. Plowr. Ured. p. 268. See also 

 Berkeley, Eng. Fl. v. 373. 



JEcidiosjJores. zEcidia hypophyllous, in subrotund or elon- 

 gated clusters on the nerves of the leaves, also upon the 

 petioles, scattered or circinate, immersed, edges torn into minute 

 fugacious teeth ; spores oval, yellowish. 



On Poterium Sanguisorba. May and June. A species of 

 which nothing else seems to be known. 



& 



iEcidium Dracontii Schweinitz. 



JEcidium Dracontii Schwein. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1834. Cooke, 

 Bandb. p. 538; Micr. Fung. p. 200. Plowr. Ured. p. 266. Sacc. 

 Syll. vii. 831. 



jEcidiospores. /Ecidia on extensive pallid spots on the 

 leaves, sometimes almost covering them, arranged without 

 order, elongate ; spores orange. 



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