Teteropuccinia. 175 
Uredospores—Sori oval or linear, generally surrounded by a red 
margin, long covered by the epidermis, yellow. Spores orange, 
spherical, elliptical, or ovate, echinulate, 19-26 X 17-20. 
Teleutospores—Sori elliptical or elongate, pulvinate. Spores 
oblong, clavate, apex rounded, truncate or conical, thickened 
(5-9), base attenuated, somewhat constricted in the middle, 
brown, smooth, 30-45 X 14-204. Pedicels rather long, per- 
sistent. Miesospores clavate, pretty abundant. 
Synonyms. 
Puccinia obscura. Schrot. in Muov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. vol. ix. 
p. 256. “Krypt. Flor.,” vol. iii. p. 330. Plow., Jour. Linn. Soc. 
Bot., vol. XxX. pp. 511, 512. 
Aicidium compositarum, Mart., var. bellidis, D. C. Cooke, 
“ Hdbk.,” p. 543. 
E-xsiccati. 
Berk., 225. Cooke, i. 327; i go; “L. F.,” 57. Vize, 
‘Micro, Fungi,” 156. 
fEcidiospores on Bellis perennis, October to December. 
Uredospores and teleutospores, on Luzula campestris, L., June 
to November. 
BioLoGy.—The teleutospores are not formed until] August or 
September, and germinate after a very short period of rest. The life- 
history was first worked out in November, 1883, and June, 1884. 
Further cultures were made in 1887. 
Puccinia phragmitis. (Schum.) 
Acidiospores—Pseudoperidia on circular red spots (‘5 to 1°5 cm. 
in diameter), shallow, edges white, torn. Spores white, sub- 
globose, echinulate, 15-26 in diameter. 
Uredospores—Sori rather large, dark brown, elliptical, pulverulent, 
without paraphyses. Spores. ovate or elliptical, echinulate, 
brown, 25-35 X 15-23. 
Teleutospores—Sori large, long, sooty black, thick, often confluent. 
Spores elliptical, rounded at both ends, markedly constricted 
in the middle, dark blackish brown, smooth, 45-65 x 16-25. 
Pedicels very long, 150-200 X 5-8y, yellowish, firmly attached. 
