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which resemble those of P. compositarum. The odour is due to the 
sperm 
leaves of the same plant, | or on those Bee ing plants, 
ele 
spores ‘of the first generation. This is the sea. observed at 
Edgbaston and Water Orton (Wk.), on Carduus arvensis. August 
and September 
5. Melampsora lini (Pers.). — Near Abergele, North Wales, 
August. On Linwm catharticum. This is the teleuto- -spore of 
Lecythea lini Lev.; Cooke, Handb. p- 532, of which only the 
batty stage has been hitherto recorded in Britain, to my kn owdeaine 
“Pustules roundish, elliptic or linear, often confluent, black- 
brown, shining; spores oblong or wedge-shaped, brown, one- 
-¢elled, intercellular, polygonal in transverse section, reaching 44 
long, ote about 18 » broad.” —Winter, Pilze 2. 
* Peronospora dae Rabenh.—Harborne (Ws. ), August. On the 
lower suirhies of the leaves of Bartsia Odontites. This species has 
én only mentioned by name (Grev. v. p. 65), but not described 
as a —— ge The following aeneeiRicai is drawn up 
my specim 
Geirwied: oie: a dense snow-white crust. Fertile stems re 
late ; apex simple, subulate, or shortly once, twice, 
dichotomous, a trifurcate ; branches few, votombiae. 
divided similarly to the apex; ultimate ramuli nearly straight, 
Subulate. Acrospores unequa al, broadly ovoid, ellipsoid or subglo- 
ee 18-22 » x 14-18 4 ; apex ‘obtusely papillate. (Tab. 245, f. 2). 
ee : 
- Pilobolus edipust Montagne, Mém la Soc. Linn. de 
Lyon, cum icon We mans, Mon. du Genre Pil 
p. 59, pl. 1, figs. 1-20 (1861); ~— _Srmb. p. 78 (1869); Van 
egh. Nouv. Rech. sur les Muc. p. 48 (1875); Saccardo, Mich 
ii. 872 (1881); i igumnaes Etude sur ss Muce. pp , pl. 2, figs 
1-10 Senda i ce inus Cohn, a des Pil. phonies with 
oa. and thickish; swelling ovoid; basal reservoir 
roundish, usually above the matrix. Spores yellow, spherical, 
ga bgp rene 10°5-14°5 », with a distinct thick bluish pe sts 
w and pig’s dung, Sutton (Wk.), December to Februar 
(T a oe g's dung (Wk.), y 
7. Pilo ie Kleinii Van Tieghem, Trois. Mém. Fogg les ae 
PP. 26-7, pl. 10, figs. 6-10 (1878) ; are a p. 48, pl. 2, 
14-5 (1882). —’p, cerystallinus Klein, l.c., p. 860, pl. 28-7 Aer, 
Brefeld, Bot. Unt. iv. p. 70, pl. 4, fic. 15 ‘(isst), et mult. aliorum 
(nec Tode et Coemans). — P. roridus Ou urrey, Proc. Linn. Soc. Bot. 
1. pp. 162-7, pl. 2, figs. 1-10 (1857). 
Stem rather slender ; swelling ovoid. Spores oval, orange, not 
t Not Edipus; but adjectival, = swoln-footed. 
