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colour than the rest of the spore, base attenuate, basal cell longer, narrower, | 
and lighter in colour than upper; constricted at the septum ; epispore 
. smooth, pallid brown, 2-5-3 mmm. thick in apical cell, 1-5-2mmm. in 
mmm.; germ-pore of the upper cell apical, obscure, basal pore um 
immediately below septum, obscure. 
Hosts :— 
Clematis foetida Raoul. On leaves. Herb. No. 269. III. Weraroa; 
Lake Papaetonga, Levin (Wellington), E. H. Atkinson! Sept., 
Nov., 1919. 
Clematis hexasepala DC. On leaves. I. Levin Wellington), E. Н. — 
( 
Atkinson! 12 Feb., 1919. III. No locality given. Bastian (Syd.). 
Willd Sand- 
hills, Levin (Wellington), E. Н. Atkinson! 13 Nov. 1919. 
П. Motupiko River (Nelson), 500 m., Н. Н. Allan! 5 Jan., 1921. 
The hosts are endemic, and distributed over both Islands (Cheeseman, — 
1 
commonly finds the pedicel laterally inserted. 
B occurs on indigenous species of Clematis in New 
. This differs mainly in the 
pras size of the aecidia, and in its habit of forming large, inflated, and 
»permogones amphigenous, sparse, associated with the aecidia, honey- 
coloured. : ae 
i I Aecidia hypophyllous, in crowded groups, yellow. Регійіа immersed, x 
margins incurved and partially covered with the epidermis, openi Edi 
an irregular pore. Spores polygonal or elliptical, 17-26 x 15-18 mmm. ; 
epispore hyaline, 2 mmm. thick, densely and minutely verruculose, cell- 
: Teleutosori amphigenous, chestnut-brown, pulverulent, at. first 
d i 
y the ruptured epidermis, s 
surface of the leaf becoming covered. 
à Mesospores uncommon, 
18 ne: E epispore reticulate, 1 mmm. thick, chestnut-brown. 
osts :— 
Ranunculus la Smith. On leaves. Herb. No. 284. III. Glen 
Aes t 
Wye, Hanmer (Canterbury), W. D. Reid / 926 Oct., 1919. Moun 
Judah (Otago), 500 m., W. D. Reid! 14 Dec., 1921. 
