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Puc cinia Liliaceae . 



LILIACEAE. 



Burchardia 



60. Puccinia burchardiae Sacc. 



Saccardo, Hedw. XXXII., p. 57 (1893). 



Ludwig, Zeitsch. f. Pflanzenkr. III., p. 137 (1893). 



McAlpine, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic. VII., N.S., p. 215 (1894). 



Sydow, Mon. Ured. I., p. 620 (1903). 



Sacc. Syll. XI., p. 197 (1895). 



II. Uredosori amphigenous, bullate, elliptical or sometimes circular, 



crowded, light-brown, erumpent, surrounded at base by dry cuticle 

 of epidermis. 



Uredospores elliptic to subglobose, yellowish-brown, epispore 

 echinulate, 28-31 x 22-25 p.. 



III. Teleutosori amphigenous, numerous, small or large, erumpent, 

 surrounded at base by cuticle of epidermis, circular cr elliptical, 

 black. 



Teleutospores clavate, constricted at septum, thickened at apex 

 (up to 14 or 15 p) and rounded, sometimes truncate or acute, 

 40-60 x 14-23 yu, average 48 x 20 p., but sometimes attaining a 

 length of 70 p; lowejr cell tapering towards pedicel, yellowish- 

 brown; upper cell elliptical or rarely spherical, chestnut-brown, 

 21-23 p broad; epispore smooth; pedicel hyaline, 30-60 x 5-6 p. 

 X. Mesospores fairly common, similarly coloured to teleutospores or 

 paler, clavate to ovate, rounded or pointed at apex and thickened, 

 37-43 x- 12-15 p. 



On steins and leaves of Eurchardia umbellata R. Br. 



Victoria Dandenong Creek, Oct., 1891. (C. French, jun.). Near 

 Melbourne, Sept. Feb. Myrniong, Sept., 1898, and Dec., 

 1903. Murrumurrangbong Ranges, Dec., 1903 (Robinson). 



S. Australia Teatree Gully, Oct., 1890 (Tepper). 



The first record of this species appeared in Hedwigia of March and 

 April, 1893, where Saccardo described it as differing from the type 

 P. metanarthecii Pat. 



(Plate V., Figs. 38, 39.) 



Wurmbea. 



61. Puccinia wurmbeae Cooke and Mass. 



Cooke and Massee, Grev. XVI., p. 74 (1887). 

 Cooke, Handb. Austr. Fung., p. 337 (1892). 

 Sydow, Mon. Ured. I., p. 640 (1903). 

 Sacc. Syll. VII., p. 664 (1888). 



Sori elongated, bullate, dark-brown. 



II. Uredospores elliptic, granulate, brown, 25-28 x 15-18 p. 



III. Teleutospores clavate, slightly constricted at septum, smooth, 

 upper cell convex or truncate, at apex darker, lower cell tri- 

 angular, attenuated downwards into the short, hyaline pedicels, 

 48-60 x 21-28 /z, average 50 x 24 p (according to Cooke and 

 Massee, 60-70 X 20-25 p) ; pedicels persistent, generally short, 

 but attaining a length of 52 p and a breadth of 7-8 p, being 

 broadest at the junction with the spore. 



