FUNGOID PESTS OF CULTIVATED PLANTS. 219 



Recorded for France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Italy. 

 Sacc. Syll. iii. 4024 ; Cooke, Hdbk. No. 1409 ; Grevillca, xiv. 126, 

 No. 644 ; B. & Br. A.X.II. No. 208, t. ii. f. G. 



Asi'EN-LEAF AnTHRACNOSE. 



Glceosporium Tremula (Lib.), PI. XX. fig. 33. 



The leaves of the Aspen (Populus tremula) are liable to the attacks of 

 an anthracnose which causes greyish spots on either surface, which are 

 either rounded or oblong, with a tawny margin. The pustules are found 

 also on both surfaces, and are either scattered or disposed in rings. The 

 epidermis of the leaves above the pustules is often blackened and rough. 

 The conidia are curved (10-15 x 2 /.i), seated upon short thread-like 

 pedicels. 



Recorded also in Sweden, France, Germany, Austria, and Italy. 



Sacc. Syll. iii. 3719 ; Grevillca, xiv. p. 124, No. 618. 



Aspex-leaf Rust. 

 Melampsora Tremula (Tub), PI. XXI. fig. 34. 



This parasite is common enough on the leaves of Populus tremula 

 from June to November. It has been said that the cluster-cups are to be 

 found on the leaves of Mercurialis perennis, having been known hitherto 

 under the name of Uredo confluens. 



The uredospores are produced in small pustules on the under surface 

 of the leaves, or larger when upon the young twigs. The spores are sub- 

 globose or ovate, rough, and of an orange colour (15-20 x 14-16 /<). 



The teleutospores are also found on the under surface, forming abun- 

 dant flattened, compact pustules, at first reddish-brown, becoming black. 

 The spores are closely compressed together, side by side, and are elongated, 

 attenuated downwards, almost wedge-shaped (45-50 x 10 12 ft). 



Rostrup contends that the cluster-cups of this rust are to be found in 

 the species called Caomct pinitorqmtm, which occurs on young Pino 

 seedlings. 



It has been found in France, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, 

 Finland, Austria, Bohemia, Italy, and Portugal. 



Sacc. Syll. vii. 2111 ; Ploicr. Brit. Urecl. 240 ; Cooke, Hdbk. No. 1560 ; 

 Cooke, M. F. 219 ; Hart. <& Som. Dis. Trees, p. 164, fig. 96. 



White Poplab Rust. 

 Melampsora cecidioides (DC), Pi. XXI. fig. .">5. 



This rust occurs on the leaves of Populus alba, and has evidentlj been 

 united hitherto with Melampsora populma, from winch it is probablj 

 distinct. It has been suggested that the cluster-cups are to be found on 

 the leaves of Mercurialis perennis, which Dr. 0. B. Plowrighi thinks thai 

 he has demonstrated. 



The uredo occurs in small roundish pustules, surrounded by a wliit> 

 wreath of large crowded paraphyses. Qredo pon , ipherical or elliptical, 



