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Brachypuccinia. 185 
Uredospores—Sori dark brown, small, roundish, scattered or circi- 
nating, soon pulverulent. Spores round or shortly elliptical, 
brown, with two or three germ-pores, 20-30 X 15-25p. 
Teleutospores—Sori blackish, small, round, soon pulverulent, 
elliptical or ovate, constriction slight, apex generally rounded. 
Epispore dark brown, when seen in water usually punctate, 
25-40 X 20-254. Pedicels colourless, deciduous, delicate. 
Synonyms. 
Puccinia flosculosorum (Alb. and Schw.). Winter in Rabh., 
“ Krypt. Flor.,” vol. i. p. 206. 
Uredo hieracit, Schum., “ Enum. Plant. Seell.,” vol. ii. p. 223. 
Puctinia compositarum. Schlecht. “ Flor. Berol.,” vol. ii. p. 133. 
Cooke, “ Hdbk.,” p. 449; “‘ Micro. Fungi,” 4th edit., p. 206, t. 4. 
figs. 67, 68. Johnst., “ Flor. Berw.,” vol. ii p. 196. Berk., “ Eng. 
Flor.,” vol. v. p. 365. 
Trichobasis hieracit, Schum. Cooke, ‘ Micro, Fungi,” 4th 
edit., p. 224. 
Puccinia hieracii, Mart. Cooke, “Micro. Fungi,” 4th edit. 
p. 207. 
Luccinia clandestina, Carm. Cooke, “Hdbk.,” p. 498; 
‘Micro. Fungi,” 4th edit., p. 205. Berk., “ Eng. Flor.,” vol. v. 
p. 365. 
Ovedo cichoracearum. Grev., “ Flor. Edin.,” p. 435. Johnst., 
“ Flor. Berw.,” vol. ii. p. 201. 
Exsiccatt. 
Berk., 219. Cooke, i. 33, 34, 68; ii 53, 56, 638, 639; 
“ZT, F,” 11, 12, 36. Vize, “ Micro, Fungi Brit.,” 120, 428; 
‘« Fungi Brit.,” 23, 62. 
On Carlina vulgaris, Arctium lappa, Carduus crispus, lanceo- 
latus, palustris, Cichorium intybus, Leontodon autumnalis, hispidus, 
Hieracium vulgatum, murorum, corymbosum, boreale, pitosella, 
Scabiosa succisa (?) Crepis virens. 
BIOLOGY.—I have followed Winter and Schréter in uniting the 
above species in the absence of biological information, although I feel 
sure many of them are distinct species. 
