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52 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />

be united as one species for which, under the International Rules of Nomenclature,<br />

the name U. nuda must be adopted. For similar reasons Fischer has<br />

been followed in uniting the covered smuts of oats (USkolhri) and barley (U.<br />

hordei) as one species, U. hordei, and the claim to specific rank of the race of<br />

U. avenae on tall oat grass (U. perennans) is not admitted. The logic of these<br />

changes may not appeal to plant pathologists—^neither may the degrading of the<br />

dahlia smut (Entyloma dahliae) as a form of-B. calendulae, the species into which<br />

all the forms attacking Compositae have been united—but it is the pathologists<br />

themselves who have provided the precedent by their skilful treatment of such<br />

a difficult species complex as Puccinia graminis.

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