ENDOPHYLLACE 333 
The fungus in the ecidium-stage forms rounded swollen pustules on 
the leaves or extensive patches on the stems. Every shoot of the year is 
usually attacked and contorted, and in August is covered and made 
conspicuous by a copious development of the orange spores. The teleuto- 
spores have not been detected in this country. They are remarkable for 
their mode of germination—the basidium is formed internally as in 
Coleosporium; this then emerges through a rupture at the base of the 
spore and produces its large nearly sessile basidiospores externally, one 
from each cell. 
DIsTRIBUTION: France, Germany, Italy, Corsica, Tunisia, 
Algeria. 
ENDOPHYLLACEA 
Teleutospores in long chains, surrounded by a peridium, 
which is formed like that of a typical ecidium of Puccinia from 
the peripheral cell-rows, but is sometimes less strongly devel- 
oped; spores separated by intercalary cells, produced from a 
fusion-cell, but germinating as soon as mature by a typical 
basidium and basidiospores ; germ-pores not perceptible; spore- 
wall coloured, verruculose. Spermogones present; both kinds 
of sori subepidermal. 
ENDOPHYLLUM Léveillé. 
Characters of the genus the same as of the family. 
1. Endophyllum Euphorbie-silvatice Wint. 
Aicidium Euphorbiae-silvaticae DC. Flor. fr. ii. 241. 
4, Euphorbiae Pers. ; Cooke, Handb. p. 537; Micr. Fung. p. 195 p.p. 
Endophyllum Euphorbiae-silvaticae Winter, Pilze, i. 251. Sacc. Syll. 
vii. 767. Fischer, Ured. Schweiz, p. 437, f. 298. 
E. Euphorbiae Plowr. Ured. p. 228. 
Spermogones. Epiphyllous, or a few amongst the ecidia, 
yellowish, then brown. 
