Although the species of Puccinia (_P. glechomatis_) found on the leaves of the ground-ivy is said to be very common, we sought it in vain amongst every cluster of that plant met with during last summer and autumn, until, nearly despairing of finding it at all, we at last encountered a plot of ground-ivy covering the ground to the width of two or three yards, and in length eight or ten, nearly every plant being attacked by the _brand_. This was in the corner of a pasture, and the only time we found infected plants. The fungus, however, may be as common as the plant in other localities. The pustules on the leaves are larger than those of the mints, and also confined to the inferior surface (fig. 73). The spores are elliptic and but slightly constricted; the apex is often pointed, though not always so much as in our figure (fig. 74). Of other species found on allied plants we have not considered it necessary to give figures, or write much. The betony brand (_P. Betonicæ_, DC.) does not seem to be common enough to be readily found by any one desiring to examine it for himself; and the same may be said of the figwort brand (_P. Scrophulariæ_, Lib.), the wood-sage brand (_P. Scorodoniæ_, Lk.), and the speedwell brand (_P. Veronicarum_, DC.); all of these are, however, characterized by a distinct feature, or features, which have been considered of sufficient importance to constitute a separate species. We have had occasion to refer incidentally to the brand found on the under surface of the leaves of the wood-anemone (_P. Anemones_, P.). This is one of the earliest and commonest species. Go wherever the wood-anemone abounds, in any of the woods lying immediately to the north of the metropolis, or any of the woods in Kent, and from March to May it will not be difficult to find attenuated, sickly-looking leaves, with the under surface covered with the pustules of this brand, looking so like the sori of some fern (fig. 65) that it _has_ been, and still _is_, sometimes considered as such. In Ray’s “Synopsis” (3rd edition, 1724), it is described in company with the maidenhair and wall-rue ferns; a figure is given of it in the same work (t. iii. fig. 1), and it is stated,—“this capillary was gathered by the Conjuror of Chalgrave.” When, afterwards, it was better understood, and the spots came to be regarded as true parasitic fungi, it still for a long time continued to bear the name, not even yet quite forgotten, of the Conjuror of Chalgrave’s fern.