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Puccinia Prunorum, Lk. Plum-tree Brand ; spots obli- 

 terated ; sori liypogenous, subrotuiid scattered, epiderniis oblite- 

 rated; spores brown, peduncles very sliort.— On the leaves of 

 Plum-trees. September and October. Yery common. 



Puccinia Pabse, Lk. Bean Brand ; spots none ; sori subro- 

 tund, or elong-ated, surrounded by the ruptured epidermis ; spores 

 at length black, ovato-globose ; peduncle slender. — On Beans. 

 August and September. Not uncommon. 



Puccinia Buxi, DC. Box Brand ; spots none ; sori subro- 

 tund, convex, scattered ; spores brown, oblong, rather strongly 

 constricted, lower cell slightly attenuated ; peduncle very long. — 

 On both surfaces of Box-leaves. April and May. Not uncommon. 



Gymnosporangium, DC. 



Peduncles extremely long, agglutinated by gelatine into a tre- 

 melloid expanded mass. Spores uniseptate. 



Gymnosporangium Juniperi, Lk. ; forming a soft gela- 

 tinous, irregular, orange mass ; spores ovate or subelliptic, filled 

 with subglobose granules. — On living twigs of Juniperus com- 

 mimis. 



PODISOMA, Lk, 



Peduncles extremely long, agglutinated by gelatine into a com- 

 mon stem, spreading out above into a clacan<rform mass ; 

 spores mostly uniseptate. — Berk. OutL, p. 331. 



Podisoma Juniperi, Pr. ; orange, clavariseform, somewhat 

 branched; stroma simple; spores very long, lanceolate, filled with 

 elliptic granules. — On living branches of Juniperus communis. Not 

 common. 



Podisoma- foiiicolum, B.; epiphyllous, brown-black masses, 

 subglobosC; subelliptic, or irregular, consisting of radiating, 

 crowded^ very slender, agglutinated filaments, each bearing an 

 elliptic or clavate, very obtuse spore, 3- to 5-septate.— On living 

 leaves of Juniperus communis. Bare. 



Podisoma Sabinse, Pr. ; red-brown, tuberculiform and 

 clavate, simple ; stroma obliterated ; spores qbovate, uniseptate. 

 — On living branches of Juniperus Sabince. April. Not uncommon 



