We have by no means exhausted the catalogue of Fungi belonging to this genus found in Britain, nor even those commonly to be met with; but the fear of prolixity, and the desire to introduce a description of other forms into the space still remaining to us, prompt us to dismiss these two-celled brands with but a brief allusion to such as we cannot describe. Box-leaves are the habitat of one species, and those of the periwinkle (Plate VI. fig. 132) of another. One vegetates freely on the leaves of violets through the months of July and August, and another less frequently on the enchanter’s nightshade. Several species of willow-herb (_Epilobium_) are attacked by one _Puccinia_ (Plate IV. figs. 78, 79), and a single species by another. Plum-tree leaves, bean-leaves, primrose leaves, and the half-dead stems of asparagus, have their separate and distinct species, and others less commonly attack the woodruff, bedstraw (Plate VIII. figs. 172, 173), knotgrass, ragwort, and other plants less common, more local, or, to the generality of the non-botanical, but imperfectly known. We have found, not uncommonly in the autumn, the scattered pustules of a brand on the stems and leaves of the goat’s-beard, occupying the places which were scarred with the remains of cluster-cups that had flourished on the same spots a month or two previously (Plate IV. fig. 76). The pustules are by no means minute, but elongated and bullate; the spores beautifully studded with warts (Plate IV. fig. 77). This species cannot certainly be identical with _Puccinia compositarum_ (Schlecht), _P. syngenesiarum_ (Lk.), or _P. tragopogonis_ (Corda). In none of these do the spores appear to be warted, and the habits of both the latter are different. Its nearest associate appears to be _P. centauriæ_ (Corda), at least in the fruit, and whilst the form and character of these organs are considered of any value in the determination of species, smooth spores cannot be associated, we think, with tuberculate or echinulate spores under the same name. In the spores of the species to which attention has been more specially directed we have types of the principal forms. In the “corn-mildew” they are elongated, and tapering towards either end; in the “coronated brand” the apex is crowned with spicular processes; in the “wind-flower brand” the entire spores are echinulate; in the “mint brand” they are globose; in the “composite brand” elliptic; in the “earth-nut brand,” nearly cut in two at the septum; and in the “dandelion brand,” so variable in form that no two are precisely alike. On the other hand, all are characterized by a transverse septum dividing each spore into two cells. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER V. _COMPLEX BRANDS._