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BRITISH GALLS 
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Apium nodiflorum Reichb. fil. 82. Procumbent 
Marshwort. 
Conspicuous indurated swellings on the stems and 
petioles. At first translucent, pale yellow, then white, at 
length brownish. May to October. 
Protomyces macrosporus Unger 654 
Plowright, p. 300. 
Aegopodium Podagraria Linn. 100. Gout weed. 
Stems and midribs much swollen and distorted by the 
presence of the mycelium. 
PUCCINIA AEGOPODII Schum. 655 
Plowright, p. 202. 
Elongated swelling on the stem. See No. 654. 
Protomyces macrosporus Unger 656 
Plowright, p. 300. 
Pimpinella Saxifraga Linn. 102. Burnet Saxifrage. 
Seed swollen, much enlarged and rounded, diameter 
3 to 5 mm., containing an orange larva. M. E. 
SCHIZOMYIA PIMPINELLAE F. Low 657 
Syn. Aspho?idylia pimpinellae F. Low. 
Connold, Plant Galls, p. 215. Houard, No. 4445. 
Flowers swollen, globular, not opening, more or less 
tinted with red. Larva solitary, bright brimstone yellow, 
leaping. M. E. II. 
CONTARINIA Traili Kieffer 658 
Houard, No. 4446. According to Kieffer this is the 
dipteron which inhabits the galls described by Binnie in 
Proc. Glasgow N. H. Soc., 1877, p. 185. 
Leaflets deformed, club-like, pale green, becoming red 
or purple. Rachis seldom galled. June to August. 
ERIOPHYES PIMPINELLAE Con. 659 
Connold, Plant Galls, fig. 275. 
Conopodium majus Loret (Bunium denudatum , D. C.). 
109. Common Earth-nut. 
Swellings on the stems, containing the orange-yellow 
aecidiospores. Somewhat rare in Britain. 
Aecidium bunii D. C. 660 
Plowright, p. 270. 
Anthriscus sylvestris Hofim. 107. Wild Chervil. 
Turbidity of the margin causes a swelling on the in¬ 
ferior surface of the leaf. The margin is bent inwards. 
Trioza viridula Zett. 661 
Houard, No. 4391. 
