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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

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