ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC, 323 



Fungi. 

 (By A. LoREAiN Smith, F.L.S.) 



Uninucleate Spores of Endophyllum Euphorbiae. * — Madame 

 jVIoreau has taken the opportunity given her in finding a new specimen 

 of this fungus to restate the correctness of her discovery of the 

 uninucleate character of the spores. It is the only case in which an 

 aacidiospore has been discovered that does not possess two nuclei. The 

 author publishes convincing micro-photographs. 



Uredinese. — G. G-. Hedgecock t has written on the identity of 

 Peridermium montammi with F. acicolum. He inoculated various plants 

 with tlie spores, and on Aster conspicuas obtained a growth closely 

 resembling Gohosporium soUdaginis. This he holds as proof that the 

 two Peridermiums are identical, as the stage on the Aster is common to 

 both. He discusses the distribution of both Peridermium and Goleo- 

 sporinm. 



J. Weir and E. E. Hubert % gi^e an account of inoculation experi- 

 ments with Peridermium montanum. They obtained the Goleosporium 

 stage on species of Aster and Solidago, a rust already known as 

 Goleosporium soUdaginis, thus confirming the conclusion came to by 

 Hedgecock. 



M. P. Hariot § has published notes on several Uredinea?. A new 

 species, Puccinia Steivardii, from Western Austraha, is noteworthy 

 as growing on a leguminous plant, Gastrolohium mhjcinum, very few 

 Uredineffi being found parasitic on Leguminosse. New observations are 

 recorded on Puccinia verruca, in which he has discovered uredospores ; 

 on yEcidium Dugettise, a new species on the leaves of Dugettia (Anonacese) ; 

 on the fficidia of the Boraginaceag ; on Uredo moricola, with its ring of 

 paraphyses round the uredosorus ; and on Ustilago Duriseana, which was 

 found on Stellaria media, a new host. 



Marcel Mirande 1| records a new host for Uromyces Lilii. It is an 

 autoecious rust on different species of Lilium, and has been found on 

 Fritillaria meleagris. Mirande has now observed it on F. involucrata. 

 The writer indicates its affinity with U. Erythronii, and the points of 

 difference between the species. 



Stinking Smut of Wheat. H— This fungus, TiUetia foBtens, has heen 

 studied in regard to its effect on the wheat plant. The disease appears 

 in the heads of wheat, and M. F. Barrus, the author of the paper, notes 

 a series of observations. Prior to the emergence of the head from the 

 leaf -sheath no difference is observable. After opening out it is seen that 



* Bull. Soc. Mycol. France, xxxi. (1915) pp. 68-70 (1 pi.), 

 t Phytopathology, vi. (1915) pp. 64-7. 

 X Phytopathology, vi. (1915) pp. 68-70. 

 § Bull. Soc. Mycol. France, xxxi. (1915) pp. 55-60. 



II Comptes Reudus, Ixxviii. (1915) pp. 530-1. See also Bull. Agric. Intel!. Rome, 

 vi. (1915) p. 1707. 



ji Phytopathology, vi. (1916) pp. 21-8. 



