CHAPTER XX. 



FUNGI CONTINUED. 



*' Rusts" (Uredinese). 



400. The fungi known as ''rusts" are very important ones 

 to study, since all the species are parasitic, and many produce 

 serious injuries to crops. 



401. Wheat rust {Puccinia graminis). — The wheat rust is 

 one of the best known of these fungi, since a great deal of study 

 has been given to it. One form of the plant occurs in long 



Fig. 206. 

 TVTieat leaf with red 

 rust, natural size. 



Fig. 207. 



Fig. 2og. 

 Enlarged. 



Fig. 2ro. 



Sin gle 



sorus. 



portion of 'eaf Natural size, 



pnlargedto show 



S'jri. 



Figs. 206, 207. — Puccinia ■"Taminis, red-rust stage (uredo stage). 

 Figs. :?c8-2ro. — Black rust of wheat, showing son of teleutospores. 



reddish-brown or reddish pustules, and is known as the ''red 

 rust" (figs. 206, 207). Another form occurs in elongated black 

 pustules, and this form is the '^ne known as the "black rust'' 



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