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Plowright observed that the spores would not germinate at once, but, 
by securing the affected leaves during the winter near some plants of 
NV. poeticus, he found the Puccinia reproduced next year and for eight 
or nine years afterwards, though only on the tips of the leaves. The 
reticulation of the spores varies in character, sometimes resolving itself 
into longitudinal ridges or rows of warts. Mesospores and other abnormal 
spores are recorded by Fischer. 
DistRiBuTION: Belgium, Italy, Garniola. 
102. Puccinia Asparagi DC. 
Puccinia Asparagi DC. Flor. fr. ii. 595. Cooke, Handb. p. 494 ; Mier. 
Fung. p. 203. Plowr. Ured. p. 144. Sace. Syll. vii. 601. Sydow, 
Monogr. i. 615. Fischer, Ured. Schweiz, p. 235, f. 185. 
Spermogones. In little clusters, honey-yellow. 
Aicidiospores. ALcidia in oblong groups on the stems, for a 
long time closed, then shortly cup-shaped, with a whitish, erect, 
torn margin; spore delicately verruculose, orange, 15—28 p. 
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Fig. 180. 2. Asparagi. Teleutospores and mesospore. 
Uredospores. Sori oblong, narrow, flat, long covered by the 
epidermis, cinnamon-brown; spores globose to ovate, delicately 
and densely echinulate, pale-brown, 20—30 x 17—25 pw, with 
four germ-pores. ° 
