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THE BKITISH SMUT FUNGI 111<br />

[Sporidia on the liost, on blunt hyphae protruding from the stomata, long,<br />

slender, 30 X1 -5 fi. They apparently germinate in position and give rise to small<br />

bunches of tangled hyphae (Setchell, 1892,1894).]<br />

On Potamogeton sp.<br />

Ayrshire, Ardrossan, Aug., 1911, D. A. Boyd (Trans. Brit, mycol. Soc., iv, p. 185,<br />

1912) and West Kilbride, July, 1914, D. A, Boyd [Herb. Kew.].<br />

Spore germination. Unknown.<br />

Doassansia sagittaiiae (Westend.) C. Fisch<br />

Uredo sagittariae Westendorp., Herb, crypt. Belg., No. 1177, 1857.<br />

Physoderma sagittariae Fuckel, 1865.<br />

Protomyces sagittariae (Fuckel) Fuckel, 1869.<br />

Aecidiwm incarceratum Berkeley & Broome, 1875 [Notices of British Fungi,<br />

No. 1469].<br />

Doassansia sagittariae (Westend.) C. Fisch, Ber. dtsch. hot. Ges., ii, p. 405, 1884.<br />

Sori in the leaves as yellowish brown spots 5-10 mm. diam. on which the embedded<br />

spore balls form numerous minute elevations. Spore balls more or less<br />

spherical, pale yellow-brown, 50-80 fi diam., each composed of a distinct cortical<br />

layer of rather irregularly arranged sterile cells, 12-18 fj. diam., and a central<br />

mass of spores. Spores globose to angular, tinted yellow, smooth, 8-12 [j. diam.<br />

On Sagittaria sagittifolia.<br />

Summer. England. Uncommon.<br />

Exsiccati: Vize, Micro. Fungi Brit. 50 (as Protomyces sagittariae); Rabenhorst,<br />

Fungi Europ., No. 1492 (as Aecidium incarceratum; some specimens of this<br />

exsiccata are leaves of Alisma plantago presumably infected by D. olsiTnatis).<br />

Spore germirmtion. Fisch (1884) obtained germination in spring and early<br />

summer. The sporidia are inserted at unequal distances on the markedly conical<br />

tip of the promycelium. They were not observed to conjugate but, rarely,<br />

fusions took place between secondary sporidia. This was confirmed by Brefeld<br />

(1895) who germinated over-wintered spores (Fig. 15/) and found that sporidia<br />

were viable after three months. Infection takes place throughout the summer,<br />

first from overwintered spores and then from sporidia. Infected leaves are<br />

always raised above the surface of the water.<br />

Type: GrapUola Poit., 1824.<br />

GRAPHIOLACEAE<br />

Sori in the leaves of palms, erumpent, single or in groups in a compact black<br />

peridium. Sporidia ('spores') produced laterally in whorls at the septa of sporogenous<br />

hyphae (equivalent to chains of chlamydospores) arising from the base<br />

of the sorus.<br />

GEAPHIOLA Poiteau,<br />

Ann. Sci. nat. iii, p. 473, 1824<br />

Ty^: Graphiola phoenicis Poit. on date-palm [Phoenix dactylifera], Paris,<br />

France.<br />

Sori single, each with an inner thin-walled, colourless, peridium and fascicles of

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