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uredospores during the summer, and consequently fall off 

 before the normal time. The flat, compact, crustlike 

 patches of teleutospores develop on the fallen, dead leaves, 

 and germinate the following spring. 



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Fig. 60. — Melampsora pinitorqtea. i, top of a young pine attacked by 

 the aecidiuni stage ; 2, two chains of aecidiospores, x 400 ; 3, aspen leaf 

 with pustules of teleutospores ; 4, section through a pustule of teleutospores 

 still covered by the epidermis of the leaf, x 400. 



Hartig, Bot. Centralb., xxiii. p. 362 (1885). 



Hartig and Somerville, Diseases of Trees, p. 166, figs. 



Prillieux, Malad. des Fla?ites Agric, vol. i. p. 286, figs. 



