. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. 314 BOTANY. or less elongated lines. In color they are almost invariably brown or nearly black,in marked contrast to the reddish yellow (orange) uredospores. In some cases they are produced early in the season, but in the greater number of cases they appear in the autumn, and then remain through the winter upon the dead stems of their host plants. The following spring the teleutospores germinate by sending out a jointed filament {the promycelium) from each cell; this grows to several times the length of the teleutospore, and then sends out a few


. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. 314 BOTANY. or less elongated lines. In color they are almost invariably brown or nearly black,in marked contrast to the reddish yellow (orange) uredospores. In some cases they are produced early in the season, but in the greater number of cases they appear in the autumn, and then remain through the winter upon the dead stems of their host plants. The following spring the teleutospores germinate by sending out a jointed filament {the promycelium) from each cell; this grows to several times the length of the teleutospore, and then sends out a few lateral branches, each of which bears a small terminal cell, a sporid- ium (Fig. 317, A and B, and Fig. 318). The sporidia are extremely minute, and, as a consequence, are carried about from place to place in the wind with great ease. When they fall upon the proper plant, each sporidium sends out a minute filament, which perforates the epidermis-cells, and from these passes into the leaf parenchy- ma, where it develops into a mycelium (Fig. 317, C). From this last mycelium the secidium fruits first described develop. (a) The life-cycle, as atove given, is apparently abridged in Bnme of tlie Uredlnese. Tlie secidium and uredo stages are merged into one, or either the first or seconJ is entirely wanting. This appears to be the case in Phragmidium, Qymnosporangium, Melampsora, etc. (6) With most of the species it happens that the secidiospores (conidia) develop upon one host, and the uredospores and teleutospores upon an- other. This alternation, which is termed by De Bary Jietercecism, has added very much to the difficulty of thg study of these fungi, and pos- sibly the apparent abridgement of the life-cycle above mentioned may in some instances be only an obscure heteroecism. (c) Thus far the sexual organs have not been discovered ; Sachs* argues that they must precede the secidiospores, and that the secidium fruit is in all probability the result of a sexual act. He bases his a


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