i84 BRITISH GALLS 



Homop- Margins of the terminal leaves rolled backwards, form- 



tera j^g a pod. The leaves are swollen and sometimes loosely 

 bunched together. Aphis elongated, yellow or shining 

 black, mealy. May to July. M. G. 



Brachycolus stellariae Hardy 349 

 Syn. Aphis hold Hardy. 

 Buckton, ii., 148. Houard, No. 2339. 



Stellaria Holostea Linn. 109. Greater Stitchwort. 

 Terminal leaves swollen and clustered. See No. 349. 



Brachycolus stellariae Hardy 350 

 Buckton, ii., 148. Houard, No. 2312. 



Stellaria graminea Linn. 109. Lesser stitchwort 

 ,, Terminal leaves clustered and swollen. See No. 349. 



Brachycolus stellariae Hardy 351 

 James Hardy, North Brit. Agriculturalist, pt ii., p. 788. 



Buckton, ii., 14B. 



Sagina ciliata Fr. 68. Ciliated Pearlwort. 

 ' Entire plant deformed. Shoots transformed into an 



ovoid, purple, fleshy gall about 3 to 4 mm. thick. 



352 

 Trail, 1904, p. 130. Houard, No. 2354. 



Spergula arvensis Linn. 112. Com Spurrey. 

 Nematoda f^tem thickened and distorted. 



Tylenchus devastatrix Kuhn 353 

 Bd. Agriculture Leaflet, No. 46. 



BANUNCULACEAE 



Clematis Vitalba Linn. 49. Traveller's Joy. 

 Fungi Leaf stalk and young shoots swollen and considerably 



distorted. The swollen parts contain the yellow aecidio- 

 spores. 



Aecidium clematidis D. C. 354 

 Plowright, p. 265. 



Thalictnun dunense Dum. 37. Meadow Rue. 

 1, Fusiform swellings on the stems; thick, black pustules 



on the leaves contaming the spore mass. June to August. 



Urocystis sorosporioides Kom 355 

 Plowright, p. 287. 



