500 PUCCINL3EI. 



1485. Puccinia glomerata. Grev. " Eagwort Brand." 



Uredo-spores. Spots obliterated ; sori solitary or regularly 

 crovrded, siibrotund and oval, on the under surface, surrounded 

 by the ruptured epidermis ; spores subglobose, orange. — Tricho- 

 basis senecionis, Berk. Outl.p. 332. Cooke M.F. t. 7,/. 145, 146. 

 Cooke exs. no. GQ. Uredo senecionis. Eng. Fl. v. p. 379. Desm. exs. 

 no. 673. 



Brand- SPORES. Spots pale, sori roundish, depressed, often 

 confluent ; spores oblong, very variable ; peduncles short. — 

 Berk. Eng. Fl. v. p. 365. Cooke M.F. p. 198. Cooke exs. no. 37. 

 Berk. exs. no. 220. 



On leaves of Eagwort, ( Senecio jacoboea.) 



Somewhat similar in habit to P. syngenesiarum, but more pulverulent. 



1486. Puccinia virgaureae. Lil). " Golden-rod Brand." 

 Uredo-spores ? 



Braxd-spores. Spots orbicular, pallid, then yellowish. Sori 

 blackish-brown, minute, punctiform, shining, clustered, nearly 

 stellate, convex ; sporidia oblong, subconstricted, yellowish-brown 

 above, attenuated and yellowish-white below ; peduncles short. 

 — Lib. exs. no. 393. Corda. iv. t. 5,/. 42. Cooke Seem. Journ. Rabh. 

 Fl.p. 24. Cooke exs. no. 45. Dothidea solidaginis, Q, Fr. S.M. ii. 



p. 362. Xyloma, D.C. Mem. du Mus. t. 3,/. 12. Asteroma atratum^ 

 Chev. Fl. Par. p. 449. Fckl. exs. no. 343. Kl. exs. ii. no. 1989. 



On leaves of Solidago virgaurea, August. 



Very characteristic in the stellate, or radiate and dendritic arrangement 

 of the minute sori. 



1487. Puccina variabilis. Grev. " Variable Brand." 



Uredo-spores ? 



Braxd-spores. Sori amphigenous, minute, roundish, sur- 

 rounded by the ruptured epidermis, nearly black ; spores vari- 

 able, obtuse, cells often subdivided ; peduncle very short. — Berk. 

 Eng. Fl. v. p. 365. Grev. t. 75. Cooke M.F. t. 4. J. 82, 83. Corda 

 iv./. 64. Anl. B.f. 4, 5. 



On leaves of Dandelion. Summer and autumn. 



1488. Puccinia valantiae. Pers. " Crosswort Brand." 

 Uredo-spores ? Tridiobasis galii. Lev. in part ? 



Brand -spores. Spots obliterated; sori small, subrotund, 



