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THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 81<br />

Exsiccati: Cooke, Fungi. Brit. Exsicc., i, 313; Vize, Micro. Fungi Brit., 45.<br />

References have been made to a so-called 'conidial' stage of this smut<br />

(Tulasne, 1866; Rostrup, 1898; and others; see Liro, 1938, p. 319). Anthers of<br />

infected flowers are described as sessile, white or dirty yellow, and covered with<br />

oval, hyaline, unicellular spores. It is suggested<br />

that Oloeosporium antherarum Oud.<br />

on Calystegia sepium may be the sporidial {'\'-''l 'h •il^Jk"^<br />

state of a Thecaphora (Oudemans, 1898). *•....• *•<br />

Spore germination. Woronin (1882) obtained ^ "^<br />

germination during October and November j,^^ g Thecaphora seminis-convolvnli.<br />

in two to two and a half weeks using freshly Spore ball. a. Surface view; 6. optical<br />

harvested spores from G. arvensis. Older section. x500<br />

spores gave negative results. The promyceUum grew out through a smooth,<br />

round, germ pore in the exosporium, became septate, and developed thin branches<br />

some of which met and fused in pairs (Fig. 5g). A long hypha grew out from<br />

the place of fusion.<br />

Thecaphora trailii Cooke<br />

Thecaphora trailii Cooke, Orevilha, xi, p. 155, 1883.<br />

Poikilosporium trailii (Cooke) Vestergren, 1902.<br />

Sari in the inflorescence. Spore mass powdery, purplish brown. Spore balls<br />

irregularly globose, 18-35 [i diam., each composed of 2-8 spores. Spores hemispherical<br />

or three-sided, contiguous sides flat and smooth, free surface rounded ^<br />

and with reticulations which appear as warts at the circumference, pale yellow,<br />

10-17 /x diam. [Based on the type specimen in Herb. Kew.]<br />

On Carduus heterophyllus.<br />

Scotland, Braemar, Aug., 1883, J. W. H. Trail (Cooke,,toe. cit.).<br />

Spore germination. Unknown.<br />

TILLETIACEAB Schroeter,<br />

Krypt. Flor. Schles., iii (1), p. 276, 1887<br />

Type: Tilletia Tulasne, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot., Ser. 3, pp. 112-13, 1847.<br />

Spores exposed at maturity as a powdery^Spore mass or permanently embedded<br />

in the host tissues. Spore germination by a non-septate promycelium bearing a<br />

group of terminal sporidia or branches (see p. 20).<br />

TILLETIA Tulasne,<br />

Ann. Sci. nat., Bot., Ser. 3, vii, pp. 112-13, 1847.<br />

Type: Tilletia caries (DC.) Tul. on Triticum vulgare, Europe.<br />

Sari usually in the ovaries, less frequently in the leaves. Spore mass powdery.<br />

Spores single, medium to large, usually 15-30 fi diam., variously ornamented,<br />

frequently intermixed with sterile or immature spores.<br />

Spore germination, see p, 83.<br />

Differs from Ustilago in the methods of spore formation (see p. 16) and<br />

germination.

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