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30390<br />
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 101<br />
promycelia, basal fusions between the promycelial branches, and the growth of<br />
these to form'hyphae (Fig. 10 b, d). Juel (1894) also figured germination noting<br />
the short promyceUa (15 /x) with three or four terminal branches, but he did not<br />
observe fusions. Some of the branches formed long septate hyphae (diameter<br />
2 fi) and small, somewhat bent sporidia (9 x 3 ja). In nutrient solution derived<br />
from dung the apical branches of the promycelium formed a bunch of sterile<br />
filaments. Viennot-Bourgin (1937), using a filtrate of soil and compost, germinated<br />
spores from plants of Linaria striata which had been exposed to the<br />
weather until April. The promycelia (70-130 /x.) were thin and flexuous with one<br />
or two slender apical branches (20-30 X 3 ft) which bore at the tip thin slightly<br />
acuminate sporidia (9-18 X 3-5 fi) on rudimentary stalks. l^^.<br />
Melanotaenium endogenum (Unger) de Bary<br />
Protomyces eridogenus Unger, Die Exantheme der Pflanzen, pp. 342, 419, 183:<br />
Protomyces galii Nees von Esenbeck, 1837, fide de Toni, 1888.<br />
Melanotaenium endogenum (Unger) de Bary, Bot. Zeit., xxxii, p. 106, 1874.<br />
Entyloma endogenum (Unger) Wiinsche, 1877.<br />
Sori in the stems and leaves blackening the stunted shoots of the infected plants,<br />
covered by the epidermis of the host. Spore mass firmly agglutinated, black.<br />
Spores rather irregular, globose, sub-globose, polygonal<br />
or elhpsoidal, dark brown, almost opaque,<br />
16-22 X12-20 ja (Figs. 19, 10 c).<br />
On Qalium verum.<br />
Scotland, Aberdeen (see Trail, Scot. Nat., vii (N.S. i),<br />
p. 243, 1884), St. Fagans, Aberdeens. (A. Smith,<br />
July, 1932, Herb. Kew.); Newcastle-on-Tyne (A. W.<br />
Bartlett, 1938, Herb. I.M.I. 32325); Guernsey (E. A.<br />
Ellis, July, 1939, Herb. I.M.I. 32326); Cambs. Fio-19- Melanotaenium endogenum.<br />
Spores. x500.<br />
Spore germination. Woronin (1882) germinated, in<br />
October and November, spores collected at the end of June. The epispore spht<br />
and the endospore grew out as a blunt, cylindrical germ-tube which often<br />
branched, but only one branch developed further, forming a promycelium<br />
•\vith four to seven apical branches which fused at the tip or at the base. After<br />
fusion some of these developed septate mycelium but no sporidia were observed.<br />
Melanotaenium hypogaeum (Tul.) ScheUenb.<br />
Ustilago hypogaea Tulasne, Fung, hypog., p. 196, 1851.<br />
Melanotaenium hypogaeum (Tul.) ScheUenberg, Die Brandpilze der Schweiz,<br />
p. 108, 1911.<br />
Sori in the root stock. Spore mass compact, black, intersected by white fibres.<br />
Spores rounded or rounded polygonal, dark brown, smooth, contents very<br />
oleaginous, 20-24 x 14r-20/x. [n.v., after Phillips & Plowright.]<br />
On Linaria spuria.<br />
Freshwater, Isle of Wight, 1869, John Lowe (see Phillips & Plowright, Orevillea,<br />
xiii, p. 52, 1884).<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.