274 A NEW PUCCINIA. 
Urtica pilulifera, Cannabis sativa, Panereninns hypochondriacus, 
A. chlorostachys, Hordeum jubatum, H. distichon, Avena sativa, 
Phalaris ABERTADENE, Polypogon sor “Telia italicum.— 
56 speci 
Lee Wo ree CrN TA. 
By W. B. Groves, B.A. 
a several years I have been acquainted with (cidium 
depauperans, Vize, which has occurred near Birmingham, at Perry 
Barr, Moseley, and Sutton, on cultivated Violas; a until this 
year I hee not seen the (£cidium followed by a Puceinia. This 
has now appeared at Sutton, at as it seems to difter somewhat 
from Puceinia violarum, I have named it P. egra. A description is 
annexed. 
Puccinia egra, n. sp. 
I, Cecidium depauperans, Vize. — Cups on all green parts of the 
plant, scattered, not collected on swollen Perit: roundis bh o 
elliptic, with a torn, white, sometimes recurved margin. Spores 
cn i oblong, ‘angular, smooth, orange-yellow, 17-21 y long, 
3 ePuitales numerous, amphigenous, on yellow spots, not 
small, scattered or collected in groups, roundish, flatly convex, 
covered with the silvery shining persistent epidermis, ie elliptic or 
¢ 28-80 » lon 
Pustules as in Il. T eleutospores  ibotis. oblong or 
roundish, very irregular, rounded or tapering at base or apex, 
sometimes truncate, smooth, not oatistancee: dark brown, 22-30 » 
long, 18-24 » broad. 
s fungus attacks cultivated Violas of all colours, white, 
yellow, "bhie, “i as ee a (Ecidium appears at the end of 
inte of spores may be found even on the same leaf. Its Bearish bh 
effect is most marked; the stems affected by it become flaccid, 
lanky and yellow, with imperfectly developed leaves. The uredo 
pustules, which are confined to the leaves and stipules, render them 
very weak and yellow; the epidermis remains for a long time as a 
dome-shaped be el and at last splits iertalarty a Oty 
longitudinal fissure. The t ssh ape are more usually bisalteat 
at the septum: they appeared in Augus 
