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the Devil's-bit Scabions appears attended by its especial 

 epiphyte, another of this Puccinia family ; the Sanicle, 

 likewise, has its humble dependant of the same order ; 

 the Adoxa its peculiar fungus ; while here and elsewhere 

 the bean, the box-tree, the figwort, the periwinkle, the 

 golden rod, the willow-herb, and the enchanters night- 

 shade, are similarly adorned. 



The Uredo group are orange-brown, or black. A few 

 members of brighter tint occasionally appear. I found 

 a yellow Uredo on the dog's mercury, at Hawkhurst ; and 

 a handsome orange one on the strawberry-like Cinquefoil, 

 in the same and other districts ; the willow herb, St. 

 John's wort, oak and bilberry, each nourish one of these 

 gayer Uredos. 



At Clevedon in Somerset, we found Sea-lavender 

 whose leaves adorned with brown specks, furnished 

 specimens of one of the Brown Uredos ; and in the Yorks 

 woods we have gathered leaves of the Herb Robert, 

 studded with brown dots as fine as a needle point, a close 

 ally of the Sea-lavender Uredo. 



Some Maiden-blush roses, growing in a cottage garden 

 in Swaledale, had leaves half-covered with yellow dots ; 

 those under the microscope appeared clusters of spores, 

 bursting from the mother cell. The elegant little 

 Cathartic Flax had similar specks on its leaves, and we 

 soon ascertained them to be an allied species of Epiphyte 

 (Lecythea lini). When traversing lanes in the neighbour- 

 hood of Edinburgh, early in one spring, we noticed plants 

 on the Wayside Shepherd's Purse all blotched, as it were 

 with whitewash. We concluded that some had been 



