UREDO 385 
producing its spores in the following spring. The fungus is recorded also 
on R. ferruginewm and R. dahuricum, but does not attack the American 
or Himalayan species. 
DISTRIBUTION: Central Europe, Siberia. 
Uredo Lynchii Plowr. 
Trichobasis Lynchit Berk. in Gard. Chron. 1877, viii. 242. Berk. et 
Br. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1878, ser. 5, i. 26. W. G. Smith in Gard. 
Chron. 1885, xxiii. 693, f. 154. 
Uredo Lynchii Plowr. Ured. p. 259. Sace. Syll. vii. 852. 
Uredospores. Sori subepidermal, erumpent, on small pallid 
spots, scattered, rarely confluent ; spores yellow, obovate, beau- 
tifully echinulate, with short pedicels, 28-—35 x 20—80 u. 
Fig. 288. U. Lynchii. Sori on leaf of Spiranthes, surrounded by the ruptured 
epidermis, x 40; two uredospores. From the original specimens. 
On a Spiranthes from Trinidad, Kew Gardens, August, 
September; present on the plant when imported (R. Irwin 
Lynch). On living leaves of Spiranthes in hothouse, Kelvinside, 
Glasgow, September, 1890 (D. A. Boyd). Specimens in Herb. 
Kew. (Fig. 288.) 
Uredo Plantaginis B. et Br. 
Uredo Plantaginis B. et Br. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vii. 1380 (1881). 
Plowr. Ured. p. 259. Sace. Syll. vii. 857. 
Uredospores. Sori epiphyllous, on round yellowish spots 
3—6 mm. wide, erumpent, surrounded by the epidermis; spores 
roundish to obovate, faintly echinulate with sharp but distant 
spines, yellowish, varying from 19 x 20 w up to 27 x 16 yw, with 
(apparently) two or three equatorial germ-pores. 
On Plantago lanceolata(?), P. major. Very rare. (Fig. 289.) 
“@. vu. 25 
