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in days past for mildewed corn, produced, it was said, by the berberry bushes, which were cut down, and then mildew disappeared from the corn-fields, so that Rollesby no longer merited its _sobriquet_. It has already been shown that the corn-mildew (_Puccinia graminis_) is dimorphous, having a one-celled fruit (_Trichobasis_), as well as a two-celled fruit (_Puccinia_). The fungus which attacks the berberry is a species of cluster-cup (_AEcidium berberidis_), in which little cup-like peridia, containing bright orange pseudospores, are produced in tufts or clusters on the green leaves, together with their spermogonia. De Bary's observations on this association of forms were published in 1865.[Y] In view of the popular belief, he determined to sow the spores of _Puccinia graminis_ on the leaves of the berberry. For this purpose he selected the septate resting spores from _Poa pratensis_ and _Triticum repens_. Having caused the spores to germinate in a moist atmosphere, he placed fragments of the leaves on which they had developed their secondary spores on young but full-grown berberry leaves, under the same atmospheric conditions. In from twenty-four to forty-eight hours a quantity of the germinating threads had bored through the walls and penetrated amongst the subjacent cells. This took place both on the upper and under surface of the leaves. Since, in former experiments, it appeared that the spores would penetrate only in those cases where the plant was adapted to develop the parasite, the connection between _P. graminis_ and _AEcid. berberidis_ seemed more than ever probable. In about ten days the spermogonia appeared. After a time the cut leaves began to decay, so that the fungus never got beyond the spermogonoid stage. Some three-year-old seedlings were then taken, and the germinating resting spores applied as before. The plants were kept under a bell-glass from twenty-four to forty-eight hours, and then exposed to the air like other plants. From the sixth to the tenth day, yellow spots appeared, with single spermogonia; from the ninth to the twelfth, spermogonia appeared in numbers on either surface; and, a few days later, on the under surface of the leaves, the cylindrical sporangia of the _AEcidium_ made their appearance, exactly as in the normally developed parasite, except that they were longer, from being protected from external agents. The younger the leaves, the more rapid was the development of the parasi
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