16 MICEOSCOPIC FUNGI. 



named jEcidium Tliesii, but whicli is far from uncom- 

 mon on tlie Continent. It occurred in tliis instance 

 on the Downs^ in the vicinity of Winchester. 



It is unnecessary here to refer to other allied 

 species of ^ddiiim-, except one to be pre- 

 sently noticed^ since we have_, at the end of 

 the volume^ enumerated and given descriptions 

 of all the S|)ecies hitherto found in Britain. 

 Suffice it to say that the Buckthorn cluster- 

 cups on the alder buckthorn {Eha/ninus fran- 

 gula), is usually very common in the Highgate 

 and Hornsey woods, and on the common buck- 

 thorn {Bhamnus catharticiis) in the neighbourhood 

 of Dartford^ in Kent. That on the honeysuckle we 

 have found but very rarely. On the gooseberry 

 and red-currant leaves^ commonly in some years 

 and rarely in others ; whilst a few of those de- 

 scribed we have never collected. The species on 

 different composite plants is subject to great vari- 

 ation^ and on most may be found in the autumn; 

 one variety only^ on the leaves of Lapsana communis^ 

 we have met with in the spring. 



Very few years ago farmers generally believed 

 that the cluster-cups of the berberry {Bcrheris vuU 

 garis)y were productive of mildew in corn grown 

 near them ; this opinion even received the support 

 of Sir J. Banks^ but no fungi can be much more 

 distinct than those found on corn crops and this 

 species on the leaves of the berberry. In this 

 instance the cups are much elongated_, and cylin- 



