Brachypuccinia. 185 





Uredospores — Sori dark brown, small, roundish, scattered or circi- 

 nating, soon pulverulent. Spores round or shortly elliptical, 

 brown, with two or three germ-pores, 20-30 x i5-25/a. 



Teleutospores — Sori blackish, small, round, soon pulverulent, 

 elliptical or ovate, constriction slight, apex generally rounded. 

 Epispore dark brown, when seen in water usually punctate, 

 25-40 X 20-25/*. Pedicels colourless, deciduous, delicate. 



Synonyms. 



Puccinia flosculosoniin (Alb. and Schw.). Winter in Rabh.^ 

 " Krypt. Flor.," vol. i. p. 206. 



Uredo hieracii. Schum.j " Enum. Plant. SselL," vol. ii. p. 22 



Puccinia compositariim. Schlecht. " Flor. Berol.," vol. ii. p. 13 

 Cooke, " Hdbk.," p. 449 ; "Micro. Fungi," 4th edit., p. 206, t. 4 

 figs. 67, 68. Johnst, " Flor. Berw.," vol. ii. p. 196. Berk., " Eng. 

 Flor.," vol. v. p. 365. 



Trichobasis hieracii, Schum. Cooke, " Micro. Fungi," 4th 

 edit., p. 224. 



Puccinia hieracii. Mart. Cooke, "Micro. Fungi," 4th edit., 

 p. 207. 



Puccinia clandestina, Carm. Cooke, "Hdbk.," p. 498; 

 "Micro. Fungi," 4th edit, p. 205. Berk., " Eng. Flor.," vol. v. 



P- 365- 



Uredo cichoracearum. Grev., " Flor. Edin.," p. 435. Johnst., 

 " Flor. Berw.," vol. ii. p. 201. 



Exsiccati. 



Berk., 219. Cooke, i. 2>2>. 34, 68; ii. 53, 56, 638, 639; 

 "L. F.," II, 12, 36. Vize, "Micro. Fungi Brit," 120, 428; 

 " Fungi Brit," 23, 62. 



On Carlina vulgaris, Arctium lappa, Carduus crispus, lanceo- 

 latus, palustris, Cichoriuni intybus, Leontodon auiiimnalis, hispidus, 

 Hieracium vu/gatum, murorum, coryinbosum, boreale, pilosella, 

 Scabiosa succisa (?) Crepis virens. 



Biology. — I have followed Winter and Schroter in uniting the 

 above species in the absence of biological information, although I feel 

 sure many of them are distinct species. 



