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Uromyces prunorum, Fckl. (1869). 
Uromyces amygdali, Pass., (1873), and Cooke (1878-1882). 
U romyces prunorum, var. amygdali, Vize (1878). 
REFERENCES AND LITERATURE. 
Cooke— Rust, Smut, Mildew and Mould. 1st Ed. p. 201, 1865. 
Puccinia prunorum, Lk., or plum tree brand, described as 
common in Britain on plum trees. 
Fuckel — Symbolse Mycologicse, p. 50, 1869. 
Peck - Twenty-fifth Report of the Regents of the University of 
the State of New York, p. 116, 1873. 
Leaves of wild cherry, Primus serotina, Ehrh. This 
species seems to be rare. 
Vize — Calif ornian Fungi. Grevillea, Vol. vii. p. 12, 1878. 
Uromyces prunorum, Lk., var. amygdali, on peach leaves. 
Frank — Die Krankheiten der Pflanzen, p. 468, 1881. 
Puccinia prunorum, Link, on leaves of Primus persica, P. 
domestica, P. insititia, P. armeniaca and P. amygdalus. 
Kalchbrenner — Fungi Macowaniani. Grevillea, Vol. xi. p. 19, 
1882. 
Uromyces prunorum, v. amygdali on Prunus persica. 
Cooke— Australian Fungi. Grevillea, Yol. xi., p. 97, 1883, 
Puccinia prunorum, Link, Victoria. 
Farlow — Notes on some species in the 3rd and 11th centuries of 
Ellis's North American Fungi. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and 
Sci. Boston, xviii. p. 82, 1883. 
" As far as my experience goes, the uredospores of P. 
prunorum, Lk., are much less common near Cambridge than 
the teleutospores, but in the Southern States they are 
common." 
