NOTES AND QUERIES. 177 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
In my enumeration of leaf fungi which may be found in any 
month, I desire the student to bear in mind that these mysterious 
parasites do not confine themselves to one month only. Some will 
appear during several months of the spring or summer, and others 
have a shorter existence. It is not improbable that in various 
parts of the country the plants I have occasion to refer to, may 
not be found at the time I mention (as found by myself), but I 
prefer to refer to these specially as a guide to my brother students 
of this northern district. If any should fail in finding the fungi to 
which I refer as growing in certain localities I shall be glad to give 
more exact information on the subject if they will see me person- 
ally, as I have a strong wish that this very interesting branch of 
microscopic study should receive more attention than it has 
hitherto done. Amongst the rusts that may now be found are several 
which deserve attention, amongst them is one common on grass ; 
it is known as Zrichobasis rubtgo-vera or T. linearis, and may be 
met with during the entire summer until autumn fairly sets in. 
The red rust appears on the grass leaves in broken lines, hence 
the name “earis. So there is no difficulty in knowing this fungus 
at first sight. I have met with it near Urmston, near Prestbury, 
-and in numerous other localities. Zvrichobasts violorum on the 
violet is to be found during this and following month. It is a 
minute black smut on the leaves of the plant. I have never found 
it in quantity nearer than Wales. A third may be found about this 
time in Miller’s Dale, Taxal valley, and nearly all over this dis- 
trict, on the Composite, it is known as Z? cachoracearum. It 
is also a black smut. Many others of this genus are to be met 
with about this time. Amongst the A‘cidiacei to be found, there 
is a very common one on garden mint; it grows chiefly on the 
stalks near the roots, and has more the appearance of a Trichobasis 
than a cluster cup, it is called 2cidium menthe. Ihave found it 
also upon the wild mint Menthe sylvestris on two or three occa- 
sions in the Buxton valley. The one on garden mint I have 
found in gardens in Greenheys, Manchester, close to the city, 
yearly, until the spot was built over with houses. Besides the 
Aicidiacei I have hitherto named, many others may now be met 
with, but I fear not near Manchester. The one on the leaves of 
the primrose, I have only met with in Devonshire; the one on 
garlic, Acidium alit, 1 have only met with once, when I found it 
on the banks of Lake Windermere. The Bladder-campion 
cluster cup may now be found near the sea-side about this time; I 
have frequently met with it, and it is one of the most beautiful 
of the Aicidiacei. Besides the fungi which infest the Anemone 
