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On Ranunculus ficariae and B. scleratus.<br />

THE BEITISH SMUT FUNGI 107<br />

April-May. Widespread. Common.<br />

Exsiccati: Berkeley, Brit. Fungi, 212; Cooke, Fungi Brit. Exsicc., i, 533.<br />

Spore germination. Marshall Ward (1887) states that after some months in the<br />

dormant condition the spores put out promycelia from which sporidia are developed<br />

which seem to behave like those on the leaves.<br />

Entyloma fuscum Schroet.<br />

Entyloma fuscum Schroeter in Cohn, Beitr. Biol. Pflanz., ii, p. 373, 1877.<br />

Sari in the leaves, forming roundish yellow spots. Spores globose or polygonal,<br />

colourless then brown, 10-16 /oi diam. Sporidia on the host, on the undersides of<br />

the leaves, cylindrical, curved, attenuated towards the base, simple or septate,<br />

hyaline, 10-20 X 3-0/x.<br />

On Papaver rhoeas.<br />

North Wootton, Norfolk, July, 1882 (Phillips & Plowright, Grevillea, xiii, p. 52,<br />

1884) [Herb. B.M.]; Wisley, Surrey, May, 1930, J. Ramsbottom [Herb. B.M.].<br />

Both the British collections have been identified as E. bicohr Zopf [E. bicolor<br />

Stromeyer] a species near to or identical with E. fuscum from which it is said to<br />

differ by having spores 23 X12-17 jx instead of 11-16 /n diam. Plowright (1889)<br />

gives the spore size as 20-23 X15-18 ju, but as the spore size of the two specimens<br />

examined is rather less than this they have been tentatively referred to E.<br />

fuscum.<br />

Spore germination. Schroeter (1877) described how the hght flecks on the basal<br />

leaves of Papaver in spring became covered, under moist conditions, with thin<br />

white tufts resembling Ramularia. Sections of the leaf showed tufts of promycelia<br />

passing between the guard cells and bearing apically five to eight sporidia,<br />

at first cylindrical, later long, spindle-shaped, almost thread-like in form,<br />

like those on Myosotis (see p. 106).<br />

Entyloma helosciadii Magn.<br />

Entyloma helosciadii Magnus, Hedwigia, xxi, j).^ 129, 1882. Stat, conid.<br />

Cylindrosporium helosciadii repentis Magnus, Abh. bat. Ver. Brandenburg, xxxv,<br />

p. 68, 1893.<br />

Entylomella helosciadii repentis (Magn.) von Hohnel in Weese, Ann. mycol., Berl.,<br />

xxii, pp. 193-4, 1924.<br />

Sori in the leaves as discoloured spots which become necrotic, frequently<br />

covered, especially on the underside, by a white sporidial growth. Spores<br />

spherical to elhpsoidal, thin-walled, hyaline to dark yellow, 5-12 fi diam.<br />

Sporidia on the host cylindrical with shghtly tapered ends to oval, hyaline,<br />

9-14 X about 3-0/i.<br />

On Apium nodiflorum.<br />

June-Oct. Eire, Co. Dublin [Herb. I.M.I. 32305] and Tipperary (first recorded<br />

by O'Connor, Sci. Proc. roy. Dublin Soc, N.S., xxi, p. 395, 1936, where host is<br />

given in error as Sium erectum); England (Wilts.).

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