Parasitic Fungi of Illimoix. 209 



It seems the germination of the spores has not been observed 

 neither have other spore forms been certainly found as genetic 

 productions. In E. stictica, B. & Br., however, Berkeley says: 

 " The larger pseudospores are accompanied by uredinoid bodies 

 which are minutely papillate." (Linn. Soc. Jour. Bot., Vol. 

 XIV. p. 93.) 



The spores attain the largest size among the Uredineae, and 

 are otherwise very readily generically recognized. 



Speaking of R. indica, Berkeley says, "The glandular bodies con- 

 sist of a large umbrella-shaped, dark cap, often 3 |^th of an inch across, 

 composed of a number of closely packed cells, supported by a long, hy- 

 aline, delicate, and apparently compound stem, round the end of which 

 are suspended a circle of elongated hyaline bodies, calling to mind, in 

 point of arrangement, the appendages of some species of Medusae, or in 

 general appearance the fruit of some Marchantia. In the South Caro- 

 lina species [R. glandulosa, B. & C.] on the contrary, the peduncle is 

 shorter and the appendages are united by their sides into a solid mass." 



The species grow on various Leguminos<e. 



R. glandulaeformis, B. & C. 



Amphigenous. Sori scattered, rather small, often confluent 

 in areas of variable, sometimes of considerable size, testaceous; 

 spores broadly capitate, the many-celled, dish-like, chestnut- 

 brown upper layer projecting over the hyaline cells beneath, 

 about 75 to 100 /* ; pedicel short, hyaline. 



Spores urn-shaped, with a short pedicel, hyaline below and lobed or 

 striate ; even above, cellular, colored, projecting beyond the lower divi- 

 sion. In some specimens the lower division is even, and the cells of the 

 upper part larger, but it is probably a mere form. Berkeley, Grevillea, 

 III., p. 80. 



On Tephrosia Vin/iniana: "Pine Hills," Union County. 

 Collected several times in same locality by F. S. Earle. 



GYMNOSPOBANGIUM, DC. 



Spores with one horizontal septum, less commonly one to 

 six cells in a vertical row, yellow, with epispore thin, on long, 

 slender, hyaline pedicels, imbedded in gelatine, which, when 

 moist, swells into a soft columnar or irregular body. Parasitic 

 on the leaves and branches of various Cupressinew. 



