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THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 109<br />
Infection of the. host. Characteristic flecks developed in 11 to 14 days after<br />
inoculating leaves of R. repens with germinating chlamydospores (de Bary,<br />
1874).<br />
DoASSANSiA Cornu,<br />
Ann. Sci. nat.. Bat., Ser. 6, xv, p. 285, 1883.<br />
Type; Doassansia alismatia (Nees) Cornu on Alisma plantago, Europe.<br />
Synonyms: SetchelUa Magnus, 1895.<br />
Doassansiopsis (Setch.) Dietel, 1897, p.p.<br />
Sari usually in the leaves of aquatic plants or of plants in moist situations;<br />
rather permanently embedded in the host tissue. Spore balls each composed of<br />
a sterile cortical layer and a central mass of fertile spores which in some species<br />
surround a central core of sterile cells or hyphae. Spores light-coloured, thinwalled,<br />
smooth. Spore germination, see below.<br />
Setchell (1892) in his monograph of the genus distinguished three sub-genera:<br />
Eudoassansia, for forms such as D. sagittariae and D. alismatis, in which the<br />
centre of the spore ball is composed of spores only; Doassansiopsis, for forms<br />
such as D. martianoffiana, in which the spores surround a core of parenchymatous<br />
tissue; and Pseudodoassansia in which the spores enclose an irregular<br />
mass of hyphae.<br />
Doassansia alismatis (Nees) Cornu<br />
Sclerotium alismatis Nees in Fries, Systema, ii, p. 257, 1822.<br />
Perisporium alismatis Fries, ibid., iii, p. 252, 1829.<br />
Doassansia alismatis (Nees) Comu, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot., Ser. 6, xv, p. 285,1883.<br />
Sphaeria alismatis Currey, Trans. Linn. Soc., Lond., xxii, p. 334, 1859 fide<br />
SeteheU [but see Grove, Coelomycetes, i, p. 53, 1935].<br />
Sphaeropsis alismatis (Currey) Cooke, 1867.<br />
Phyllosticta curreyi Saccardo, Syll. Fung., iii, p. 60, 1884 [nov. nom. for S. alismatis'].<br />
Cylindrosporium alismacearum Saccardo, p.p., fide Grove, 1937.<br />
Sori in the leaves as yellowish to brownish circular spots up to 1 cm. diam. and<br />
as larger irregular areas on which the embedded spore balls form numerous<br />
minute elevations. Spore balls more or less spherical, dark reddish-brown,<br />
130-200 [I diam., each composed of a distinct cortical layer of radially elongated<br />
cells (10-20x5-12 /x) surrounding a central mass of spores. Spores globose or<br />
somewhat angled, tinted yellowish, smooth, 10-12 /j, diam.<br />
On Alisma plantago-aquatica.<br />
July-Oct. England (Suffolk), Scotland.<br />
Exsiccati: Cooke, Fungi Brit. Exsicc, i, 431 (as Sphaeropsis alismatis).<br />
Spore germination. Comu (1883) found that the spores germinated easily in<br />
water forming a crown of sporidia which were at first fusiform, elongated and<br />
diverging, later almost thread-like. Brefeld (1895) so figured germination.<br />
SetcheU (1892) who germinated fresh spores in July to August and dried<br />
material in October to March, described the process in some detail. The promycehum<br />
was long, slender (40-50 X 3-4 jti) with five to seven fusiform sporidia