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THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 99<br />
Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenhorst in Klotzsch, Herb. viv. myc, ii, No. 393,<br />
1856.<br />
Urocystis parallela (Berk.) Fischer von Waldheim, 1870.<br />
Tufmrcinia occulta (Wallr.) Lire, 1922.<br />
Sori in the leaves, culms, and inflorescence as very long, dark, linear blisters<br />
parallel with the veins, at first covered by the epidermis which later ruptures to<br />
expose the spores. Spore mass powdery, dark reddish-brown. Spore halls globose<br />
to somewhat elongated, 15-26 /A long, each composed of one or two (rarely three<br />
or four) spores, completely or, frequently, incompletely surrounded by a layer of<br />
hyaline or tinted sterile cells, 5-10 /x, diam. Spores globose or angled, flattened<br />
on side of contact, reddish-brown, smooth, 12-16 fi diam. (Fig. 18).<br />
On Secale cereale (rye) causing Stripe Smut.<br />
June. England. Uncommon.<br />
(Spore germination. Germination has been described and figured by Kiihn (1858),<br />
Wolf (1873), Brefeld (1883), and more recently by<br />
Ling (1940 a) and Stakman, Cassell, & Moore (1934).<br />
According to the last-named, spores germinated best<br />
after soaking for 16 hours in water to which benzaldehyde<br />
had been added (three parts in 2,000,000),<br />
and a temperature of 24° C. favoured development.<br />
The promycelia varied in length and septation, the<br />
longest consisting of ten to fifteen cells with protoplasm '°" gpores^'^x^oo!<br />
only in the apical one. Fusion between the promyceUal<br />
branches occurred at the base, apex, or by H -shaped connexions in the<br />
middle, but a study of nuclear behaviour suggested that the dicaryophase can<br />
be initiated not only by fusion but, rarely, by the direct passage of two nuclei<br />
from the promycelium into one of its branches or by the union of two cells in<br />
fairly long hyphae (Fig. 17 e).<br />
Infection of the host during germination of the seed, first demonstrated by Wolff<br />
(1873, 1874 a), has been confirmed by many workers.<br />
Racial specialization. Agropyron caninum, A. inernie, Elymus canadensis, and<br />
E. triticoides were infected by stripe smut from rye while wheat was immune<br />
(Fischer & Holton, 1943).<br />
Urocystis sorosporioides Kom.<br />
Urocystis sorosporioides Kornicke in Fuckel, Symb. mycol.,Nachtr., iii, p. 10,1876.<br />
Tuburcinia sorosporioides (Korn.) Liro, 1922.<br />
Sori in the leaves as blister-like swellings beneath the epidermis which finally<br />
ruptures; less frequently in the petioles and stems. Spore mass powdery, black.<br />
Spore balls spherical to ellipsoidal, dark brown, opaque, 26-38 /i diam., each<br />
composed of three to seven spores completely surrounded by somewhat elongated,<br />
yellowish, sterile cells, 8-10 fi diam. Spores sub-globose, usually angled<br />
by mutual pressure, brown, smooth, 10-14 jx diam.<br />
On Thalictrum mimis and its var. inaritima.<br />
June. England (Lanes.), Scotland (Aberdeens.). Eare.<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.