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It would be very desirable to see if the same life-history holds good 
with us as with him. 
The teleutospores of Uredo agrimonia, a very widely distributed 
species occurring not, only in Europe but also in Asia, Africa and 
America, have been found to consist of extra-cellular bodies divided 
into four compartments by two septa at right angles to one another, 
one longitudinal the other transverse, and is placed by Dietel in this 
genus. (Pucciniastrum.) 
Ecidium leucospermum on the wood anemone Mr. Soppitt shewed 
to be an Endophyllum ; its spores germinate as do those of the other 
Endophylla and infect young seedling plants only. 
Uredo scolopendri Fckl, for which the late Dr. Buchanan White* 
made the genus Milesia (after the Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley), is a 
very interesting fungus; Its Uredo spores which are colourless are con- 
tained inaconceptacle placed just beneath the cuticle of the plant. They 
escape through an apical opening, while the teleutospores are formed 
in smaller clusters more deeply buried in the tissues of the host-plant. 
Magnus proposes the genus Urediniopsis for it. It is not uncommon 
in this Country on various ferns, ¢.g., Scolopendrium, Blechnum and 
Polypodium vulgare. 
Colourless zcidiospores besides those of Endophyllum leucospermum 
occur on the Rumices, but the most remarkable and peculiar 
are those belonging to Puccinia vince. The Aécidium itself is not 
cup-shaped, but consists of a round flat somewhat raised cushion- 
shaped black mass upon the upper surface of which the colourless 
FEcidiospores, are produced in chains. At first sight, the structure 
looks more like a Coryneum than an A‘cidium. 
Phragmidium albidum is a fungus we should look for on the various 
bramble leaves. It was originally described by Kiihn as a Chrysomyxa. 
The Uredo Miilleri of Schréter is regarded as connected with it: 
this is an autumnal species with pycnidia, on circular spots. “The 
teleutospores occurred this year at North Wootton, near King’s Lynn, 
and were met with yesterday in the New Forest. 
Uredo Chrysanthemi. In 1897 the Chrysanthemum growers of 
England were alarmed by the appearance of a Uredo on this plant, 
which like all newly introduced species, spread with great rapidity. 
in an article on the disease not only were the teleutospores duly 
figured, but growers were warned of the danger of allowing wild 
Composite, such as Hawkweed, and Burdock, to grow near their 
Chrysanthemums. 
In order to test the truth of this warning, on the 23rd. October, 
1898, germinating spores of the Uredo were applied to Hieracium 
aurantiacum, Taraxacum officinale and Chrysanthemum uliginosum, but 
without effect. 
*B. White. Scottish Naturalist, 1878. 




