MILDEWS, RUSTS AND SMUTS 
Plowright states that Prof. J. W. H. Trail has found this 
species (?) on Prunella vulgaris on Ben Lawers, in September. 
MENTHA 
Puccinia menthae, Pers.; Plowr., Ured., p. 157. 
Pycnidia. Scattered or arranged in small, honey-coloured 
clusters. ' 
Aecidia. On the under surface of the leaves, and on . 
the stem; on the leaves often in more or less regularly- 
arranged groups, on purplish-red spots ; on the leafstalks 
and stem often forming long, swollen spots, opening ir¬ 
regularly, edge slightly torn, erect or slightly curved ; 
spores subglobose, polygonal or elliptical, war ted, pale 
yellow, 25—^40 X 18—30 [i. 
Uredospores. Sori minute, circular, scattered or in.groups, 
cinnamon, on pale spots which soon disappear, on the under 
surface of the leaf; spores globose or elliptical, echinulate^, ,. 
pale brown, 15—30 x 14—28 p. , 
Teleuto spores. Sori minute, scattered or clustered, 
powdery, blackish, on the under surface of the leaf, rarely 
on the stem ; spores elliptical, ovate or subglobose, with 
a broad pale wart at the tip, not at all, or very slightly 
constricted at the septum, minutely warted,' dusky broWn, 
25—^40 X 20—30 p, pedicel slender, about as long as Lh^ 
spore. • ' - > ff • y 
Syn. Uredo labiafarum, D.U -i- —c 
Puccinia clinopodu,D.C.‘' * ' - 
Aecidium menthae, D.C. 
On various species of Mentha, Calamintha clinopodium, 
and Origanum vulgare. Britain, Europe generally, Persia,’ 
India, Africa, and Japan. ' ’ ‘ 
The aecidial form causes much distortion of the stem, 
and stunting of the leaves of cultivated mint. The my-_ 
celium is perennial in the underground parts. 
TEUCRIUM 
Puccinia annularis, Schlecht.; Plowr., JJred., p. 217. 
Teleutospores. Sori at first minute, circular or oblong, 
covered by the epidermis, cinnamon when exposed, be¬ 
coming coalescent in one or more circles round a central 
one, on yellowish or brownish spots on the under surface of 
the leaf ; spores oblong, tip rounded and much thickened, 
sometimes truncate or narrowed, slightly constricted at the 
septum, base rounded or narrowed, smooth, pale yellowish- 
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