284 THE UREDINE/E AND USTILAGINE/E OF ESSEX : 



Messrs. Cooke and \\irenne in brackets after tlie name I have 

 used, or after the initial indicating the form to which they refer 

 in my Hst, wherever such names are different from those used in 

 the present compilation. In one or two cases in Dr. Cooke's 

 lists I am unable in the absence of specimens to say precisely to 

 what forms the names refer. 



The following list contains records of 85 sp. out of about 260 

 given in Dr. Plowright's monograph ; Dr. Cooke records 9 

 species not given below, and Mr.Varenne's collection includes 12 

 species of which no fresh records are available — these with 

 Pucciiiia hupleuvi recorded by Mr. Plowright {JMonogvaph^ p. 154), 

 from Walton-on-the-Naze, make a total of 103 species known 

 from the county. This number will, on further search, doubtless 

 be largely augmented, although, of course, the distribution of 

 these fungi depends on the distribution of the host plants. 



An excellent paper by Dr. Cooke on this group of plants is 

 published in the Essex Naturalist, Vol. iv., pp. 28-39, contain- 

 ing many useful suggestions on the collecting and study of minute 

 fungi. There is room for very considerable further work with 

 these and other groups of fungi in the county, and I have only to 

 add that it will give me very great pleasure to render any aid in 

 my power in naming specimens, etc., for anyone who Avill collect 

 them. 



Thirty species are recorded below which do not appear in 

 •either of the lists quoted above, including two species not 

 mentioned in Dr. Plowright's monograph, viz., Ftcccinia acetoscB 

 Schum., and Melampsova ovcliidi - rcpentis Plow. These new 

 county records are indicated by an asterisk '•' ; in the cases where 

 the host plant upon which the parasite is growing is not men- 

 tioned in Dr. Plowright's book, a dagger f is placed before the 

 name of the host. 



The following abbreviations are used : — 



2E. indicates cecidiiun fonn. 



U ,, ta-edospore ,, 



T ,, teleutospore ,, 



The initials in brackets after the names of the localities indicate upon whose 

 -authority the record is given : — 



H. indicates Mr. A. W. Heaver, of Maldon. 



T. ,, ,, E. E. Turner, of Coggeshall. 



W. „ ,5 H. AVhitehead, of the Essex Field Club Museum. 



C. ,, Myself. 



