182 British Uredinee and Ustilaginee. 
rounded or conical, lower cell attenuated below, slightly con- 
stricted, 40-60 X 18-204. Pedicels short, persistent. 
LEixstecatt, 
Vize, “ Micro. Fungi Brit.,” 544, 552. 
4Ecidiospores on Aster ¢ripolium, June and July. 
Teleutospores on Carex extensa, August to June. 
Wells-next-the-Sea ; Norfolk. 
BioLocy.—The life-history of this species was worked out by a 
series of experimental cultures during the year 1888, 
II. BRACHYPUCCINIA. Schrot. 
Having spermogonia, uredospores, and teleutospores, 
Puccinia suaveolens. (Pers.) 
Spermogonia—Pale yellow, scattered over the whole leaf-surface, 
sweet-scented. 
Uredospores—Primary: Sori hypogenous, large, crowded, soon 
confluent, very pulverulent. Spores echinulate, globose, 
brown, 22-20 in diameter. Secondary: Sori small, scat- 
tered, discrete, rarely confluent. Spores globose or broadly 
elliptical, echinulate, epispore brown, 20-30 in diameter. 
Teleutospores—Sori small, roundish or elongate, blackish brown. 
Spores oval or oblong, rounded above, echinulate, pale brown, 
25-40 X 17-25). 
Synonyms. 
Puccinia suaveolens (Pers.). Winter in Rabh., “ Krypt. Flor.,” 
vol. i. p. 189. 
Uredo suaveolens, Pers, “Syn.” p. 2ar. Berk., “ Eng. 
Flor.,” vol. v. p. 379. Purton, “ Midl. Flor.,” vol. iii, No. 1548, 
Grev., “Flor. Edin.” p. 434. Johnst., “Flor. Berw.,” vol. ii. 
p. 202. Sow., t. 398, fig. 5. 
Trichobasis suaveolens, Lév. Berk., “ Outl,” p. 208, Cooke, 
“Hdbk.,” p. 530; “Micro. Fungi,” 4th edit, p. 226, t. vii, 
figs. 151-153. 
Puccinia composttarum, Mart. Cooke, “Hdbk.,” p. 498, in part, 
Puccinia obtegens, Fckl.  Vize, Exs, 
