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HYPOCHOERIS L. 
8. Puccinia Hypochoeridis Oud. 
Uredo hysoeridis Schum. PL Saell. ii, p. 233 (1801). 
Puccinia HyiJochoeridis Oud. in Nederl. Kruidk. Archief. ii, ser. 1, p. 175 
(1873) ; Sydow, Monogr. i, 100 ; Fischer, Ured. Schweiz., p. 232 ; 
McAlpine, Eusts of Australia, p. 159, f. 62-3 ; Grove, The British 
Eust Fungi, p. 148-9, f. 100-1. 
TJredospores. — Sori amphigenous or often caulicolous, generally forming 
minute spots, scattered, pulverulent, cinnamon, primary of medium size, 
secondary minute ; spores globose, subglobose, or ellipsoid, echinulate, pale 
brown, 22-28 }i diam., with two germ pores. 
Teleutospores.—^OY\ amphigenous, often caulicolous, scattered, puivini- 
form, black ; spores ellipsoid or ovate-ellipsoid rounded at both ends, rarely 
attenuated, not thickened, not or scarcely constricted at the middle, 
delicately verruculose, brown, 30-46 x 18-24 /x ; epispore thin ; pedicel short, 
hyaline. 
On Hypochoeridis radicata, Newlands, Cape Town (H. H. W. Pearson), 
12 : 11 : 1912. (Pole Evans, 5595.) Plate XLYII, fig. 10. 
Europe, Siberia, North America, Chili, Australia. 
G-rove I.e., p. 149, states : " The alleged punctations of the teleutospores 
were invisible in all the specimens I have seen." These are, I find, clearly 
visible in the Cape Town material. 
PRINTZIA Cass. 
9. Puccinia Printziae Thuem. 
Puccinia Printziae Thuem. in Myc. Univ. n. 742 ; Sacc. Syll. vii, p. 704 ; 
Sydow, Monogr. i, p. 137-8, /. 118. 
Teleutospores. — Sori hypophyllous, scattered, forming round yellowishr 
fuscous spots, minute, but often spreading into larger ones, verruciform, 
pulvinate, firm, date-brown-chestnut ; spores oblong or subclavate, rounded at 
the apex or attenuated, strongly thickened (up to 12 /i), constricted at the 
middle, attenuated below, smooth, light brown, 40-65 x 16-22 />t; pedicel 
hyaline, persistent, thick, up to 55 /x long. 
On leaves of Printzia Huttoni, near Somerset East (MacOwan, 1278). 
(Pole Evans, No. 8846.) Plate XLYII, fig. 11. Material kindly supplied 
to me by the Director of the South African Museum, Cape Town. 
SENECIO L. 
10. Puccinia aecidiiformis Thuem. 
Puccinia aecidiiformis Thuem. on Flora, 1875, p. 378, and 1880, p. 318; 
Sacc. Syll. vii, p. 704 ; Sydow, Monogr. i, p. 128, f . 108. 
