FIG. 199. Black rust (Puccinia graminis) 



A, A small section of a wheat leaf upon which the parasitic rust is growing: 

 ra, mycelial hyphae of the rust; y. tt, young summer spore, or uredospore; u, fully 

 formed uredospore ; st, upright hypha upon which uredospore is formed. B, ger- 

 mination of uredospore: st, old hypha; u, old uredospore wall ; m, new mycelial 

 hyphae. C, winter spore, or teleutospore : st, hypha; t, two-celled spore. D, ger- 

 mination of teleutospore: st, old hypha; p, new hypha, or the promycelium ; 

 s, spores or sporidia. E, section of the barberry leaf showing secidiospore stage 

 of rust: ej upper epidermis, and e 2 lower epidermis; p, wall of cup or aecidium; 

 s, aecidiospores. Rearranged from Duggar's "Fungous Diseases of Plants." All 



much enlarged 

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