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were regarded as being stages of the same species, but he demonstrated 
that the Puccinia is a Micropuccinia, and has no relation to Puccini 
albescens, which is an Auteupuccinia with ZEcidium, Uredo, an 
teleutospores on the same host-plant. He then cleared up the lif 
history of A°cidium leucospermum, showing it to be an Endophyllum 
He found its spores germinated as those of Endophyllum do, and tha 
while they were without effect upon adult plants, yet seedling Ane 
mones became affected with the A®cidium after infection, and that 
the fungus had nothing whatever to do with the Puccinia fusca which | 
occurs on the same host-plant. It fell to his lot to be the first person 
to demonstrate a hetercecious Puccinia which has its Atcidiospores on 
a Dicotyledon; this he did in working out the life-history of Pa 
Bistorta, by proving that its Afcidiospores occur on Conopodium — 
denudatum. He attacked that complicated problem, the life-history 
of the Pucciniz on Phalaris arundinacea, proving that the Aucidium 
on Lily of the Valley belonged to one of them, which he named P. 
digraphidis, thereby opening a discussion amongst continental botanists 
as to the relative value of these specific forms, which has hardly yet 
been concluded. Lactarius involutus, Sopp., is figured in Cooke's 
Illustrations, t. 1,194. Dasyscypha Soppittii, Mass., is named after 
him, as also is the genus Soppittiella, one of the Thelephorez. His 
last paper in conjunction with Mr. Crossland appeared in the January — 
number of the Naturalist, and contained descriptions of several new 
species of Discomycetes. He was present at the last meeting of the 
British Mycological Society, of which he was one of the original - 
members, last October, in Dublin. He was in excellent health, — 
enjoyed the meetings and excursions, and the meeting of old friends. : 
From what fell from him there, it was evident that a somewhat — 
lengthy visit to Switzerland in 1897, with his friend Mr. H. A. © 
Pawson, where he found an opportunity of studying the Swiss flora, | 
was one of the red-letter periods of his life. He was buried at Eccles- — 
hill on April 4th, when most of the leading Naturalists of Y orkshire 
were present. He left a widow and four children to mourn his loss. . 



Mr. Soppitt wrote many interesting Botanical papers, amongst s 
which we may enumerate— = 
1883——Fungus Foray of the Woolhope Club. The Naturalist, Nov. ; 
1883, pp. 61-63. 
salle Fungi. Gardeners’ Chronicle, 15 Nov., 1884, : 
p. 629. : 
1888—-Yorkshire Fungus Foray. Gard. Chron., 13 Oct., 1888, . 
p. 420. 
1890—Puccinia digraphidis, Sopp. Journal of Botany, July, 1890) — 
pp. 213-216. 


