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Pedicularis sylvatica Linn. 112. Red Rattle. 

 Acari Leaf margin incurved, tinted with red, covered on the 



inferior surface with a felt of simple, more or less filiform 

 hairs intermingled with some star-like hairs. 



PHYLtOCOPTES PEDICULARIS Nal. 735 



Trail, 1885. Houard, No. 5133. 



Rhinanthus Crista-galli Linn. 112. Common Yellow 

 Rattle. 

 Fungi Elongated blackish gouty swellings on the basal part 



of the stem, or on the root, appearing in autumn. 



EphelinA radicalis Massee 736 

 Syn. Efihelis rhinanthi Phil. 

 Massee, Brit. Fung. Flora, iv., p. 75. 



Homop- 

 tera 



PLANTAGINACEAE 



Flantago major Linn. 112. Greater Plantain. 

 Leaf margins crinkled and folded. Aphis bright green, 

 body pilose and slightly tufted with bristles. 



Aphis myosotidis Koch 737 

 Houard, No. 5163. 



Flantago media Linn. 82. Hoary Plantain. 

 Coleop- Elongated swelling on the floral axis, with a cavity con- 



tera taining a blackish larva. (Plate VL 2.) 



Mecinus pyraster Herbst. 738 

 Mosley, Brit. Galls, Nat. Journ., March, 1898, p. 56. 



Flantago lanceolata Linn. 1 1 2. Ribwort Plantain. 

 ,, On the floral axis, rarely on the petiole. An elongated 



swelling about 8 mm. long, containing a blackish 

 larva. M. G. 



Mecinus pyraster Herbst. 739 

 Connold, Plant Galls, p. 197. Houard, No. 5151. 



Lepidop- Flower spike swollen and bent, often branching,, con- 

 tera taining about six larvae, which pupate therein. May to 

 June. 



Tortrix PALbANA Herb. 740 

 Connold, Plant Galls, fig. 244. 



Nematoda Stem swollen and distorted. 



Tylenchus devastatrix Kiihn 741 

 Bd. Agric. Leaflet, No. 46. 



