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5. Tilletia Arie Berk., MS. in herb. Kew.—Spore-mass buff, 
Ae et in the ovary ; spores globose or broadly elliptic, 13-16 p 
r 12-13 x 16 p, border 1:5-2 u broad, very pale straw-colour, 
diii Govard with very minute warts. 1 
HosT.—Panicum maximum, Nees. 
HaB.—Mauritius; Hills above Port Louis, Ayres, 4754 in — — 
herb. Berköley, 1 
Readily recognised by the small, almost colourless, warted 
spores. "Type in herb. Kew. 
Spore-mass produced in the ovary, blackis h; spores globose, 
ovoid, flattened or A get 10-14 p diam., or up to 12 x 16 p, 
clear yellow-brown, epispore very Mishusoly granulose or almost 
papillose.—Sacc. Syll. vii. (1883), no. 1777. 
HosT.—Panicum geniculatum, Willd. 
HAB.—Antilles. 
Distinguished among species developing in the ovary of the 
host by the very finely papillose epispore. Not examined. 
6. Tilletia magnusiana, Fischer de Waldh., Aperçu (1887), 47.— | 
; 
i 
7. Tilletia rugispora, Ellis in Journ. Myc. vii. (1893), 275, figs. 8 : 
and 9.—Spore-mass formed in the ovary, s Vertiges He spores 
ihe e tations poe d he growth of the spore, : 
eritis gee —Sacc. Syll. xi. (1 895), no. 1337. E 
Hosts.—Paspalum undulatum, Poir. 
HAB.—United States, Brazos Co., Texas. 
Exsicc.—Ellis & Everh. N. Amer. Fung., 2704. 
e ornamentation of the epispore is described by Ellis a5 — 
«tiberetilose-PliUaiMko, the reticulations about 1 p high and 15 7 — 
broad. 
The surface of the epispore is cracked in a tesselated manner, 
the top of the warts being dark, and the cracks separating adja- 
cent warts paler, presenting, on a surface view the a appearance 
“as Mg in fig.8. Authentic specimen from Ellis, and also specimen 
n N. Amer. Fungi, 2704, examined. 
Fig. 8, surface of spore ; fig. 9, spore of T. rugispora. 
8. Tilletia de opus Fischer de Waldh. in. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. 
Moscou, xl. (1867), 251.—Spore-mass blackish brown, forming 
ongated streaks on the leaves of the host plant; spores globose, 
fom irregularly globose or broadly elliptic, brown, 10-18 p diams — 
border not obvious, epispore densely covered with minute dares 
topped warts formed by the breaking up of the  opisporo S Fill 
