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THE<br />
BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
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(USTILAGINALES)<br />
By<br />
G. C. AINSWORTH, B.Sc, PH.D.<br />
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DEPARTMENT OF BOTAUTT,<br />
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, EXETER<br />
and<br />
KATHLEEN SAMPSON, M.Sc.<br />
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES, ABERYSTWYTH<br />
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THE COMMONWEALTH MYCOLOGICAL INSTITUTE<br />
KEW, SURREY<br />
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The Commonwealth Mycological Institute<br />
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Organization<br />
PBINTBD IN aKBAJ BSITAIST
FOREWORD<br />
THIS volume was started whilst Dr. Ainsworth was on the staff of the<br />
Commonwealth Mycological Institute. In order to obtain a satisfactory<br />
basis for the identification of tropical smuts it has been found necessary,<br />
in this as in other groups, to become well acquainted with the species<br />
present in this country. The results of his studies are incorporated in this<br />
work, for the systematic part of which he is chiefly responsible. Miss<br />
Sampson, formerly Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Botany, University<br />
College of Wales, Aberystwyth, whose lifelong study of the Ustilaginales<br />
has given her a wide knowledge of these fungi, especially their biology,<br />
has collaborated with Dr. Ainsworth to produce this very valuable contribution<br />
to mycological Uterature.<br />
The authors have been conservative in their nomenclature, in my<br />
opinion quite rightly, and no new species and only three new combinations<br />
are proposed. Following the lead given by Dr. G. H. Cunningham in 1924<br />
and since followed by others, the authors regard the loose smut of wheat<br />
(Ostilago tritici) as specifically identical with the earher-named loose smut<br />
of barley {U. nvda) and on morphological grounds alone it is difficult to<br />
see how a change of name of the latter fungus, so important to plant<br />
pathology, can be avoided. Furthermore, they follow Fischer in uniting<br />
the covered smuts of oats [U. kplleri) and barley {U. hordei) as one species<br />
{U. hordei). The Institute has undertaken to use the names of fungi<br />
recommended in the List of Common British Plant Diseases, and the names<br />
for these and a few other species discussed now need reconsideration by<br />
the authorities responsible for the list. Until their decision is known the<br />
names in current use in the Review of Applied Mycology are being retained<br />
here.<br />
The compilation of this monograph focuses attention on the gaps in our<br />
knowledge of the germination of many of the species and it is hoped that<br />
its publication will stimulate interest in this group of fungi, which is of<br />
such great importance to agriculture.<br />
S. P. WILTSHIRE<br />
Director<br />
COMMONWEALTH MYCOLOGICAI, INSTITUTE,<br />
KEW, SUKBEY<br />
23 December 1948
PREFACE<br />
THE last general account of the British Smuts based on an examination of<br />
specimens and on observations on their biology is that by Plowright in his<br />
Monograph of the British Uredineae and Vstilagineae, 1889. Since the<br />
publication of that book many more species have been recorded for the<br />
country and the outlook on the biology of the Ustilaginales has changed.<br />
This work is an attempt to meet the need for a new systematic treatment<br />
of the Smuts of this country and to provide a general account of the<br />
Order.<br />
The recent census of the Ustilaginales recorded for Britain {Trans. Brit,<br />
mycol. Sac, xxiv, pp. 294^311, 1940) was the first step in bringing up to<br />
date the knowledge of the British Smuts. The present work may be<br />
regarded as the second step. All the British collections in the national<br />
herbaria have been examined, published records have been scrutinized,,<br />
and descriptions based on British material have been prepared. The<br />
addition of notes on spore germination, infection of the host, and racial<br />
specialization to the descriptions of morphology will, the authors hope,<br />
encourage much-needed work on the biology of these fungi.<br />
We are indebted to the Keeper of the Herbarium of the Royal Botanifc<br />
Gardens, Kew, for permission to examine material in the Kew Herbarium<br />
and to the Keeper of Botany at the British Museum (Natural History) for<br />
access to the collection of British Smuts in his care, while Mr. W. C. Moore<br />
very kindly placed the Smut collections in the Herbarium of the Ministry<br />
of Agriculture's Plant Pathology Laboratory, Harpenden, at our disposal.<br />
Acknowledgement is also due to Professor W. Stiles for the loan of specimens<br />
from the Plowright and Grove Herbaria at the University of Birmingham.<br />
Much useful material was received from Mr. E. A. Ellis whose<br />
collection of East Anglian Smuts provided a number of interesting records.<br />
We should also like to thank Dr. R. W. G. Dennis, Dr. Malcolm Wilson,<br />
Mr. W. G. Bramley, and Dr. P. O'Connor for specimens and to record our<br />
gratitude to the late Dr. Alexander Smith for material and information.<br />
Acknowledgement is. made to Dr. J. H. Western and the Cambridge<br />
University Press for Plate 1, Figs. 1, 3, and 5; to Mr. D. E. Green and the<br />
Royal Horticultural Society for Plate 2, Fig. 4; to the Plant Pathology<br />
Laboratory, Harpenden, for Plate 1, Fig. 2, and Plate 2, Fig. 3; and to<br />
Dr. H. L. White and the Experimental and Research Station, Cheshunt,<br />
for Plate II, Fig. 2. Grateful thanks are given to Frances H. Ainsworth<br />
for making the large number of tracings from which the text-figures<br />
illustrating spore germination were selected.
6 PBEFACE<br />
We also acknowledge the bibHographical assistance of Miss G. M. Roseveare<br />
of the Commonwealth Bureau of Pastures and Forage Crops,<br />
Aberystwyth, the kindness of Mr. C. E. JEubbard of the Kew Herbarium<br />
for his help with the identification and nomenclature of grasses, and the<br />
similar assistance with sedges from Mr. E. Nelmes'of the same institution..<br />
Finally, we must record our thanks to Dr. S. P. Wiltshire for the interest,<br />
he has maintained in this project.<br />
19 November 1948<br />
G. C. AINSWORTH<br />
University College, Exeter<br />
KATHLEEN SAMPSON<br />
Malmsmead, Lacey Green, Aylesbury, Bucks.
PREFACE<br />
INTRODUCTION .<br />
Eoonomic importance .<br />
Smut diseases in Britain<br />
CONTENTS<br />
BIOLOGY. . . . . \<br />
Entrance and invasion of the host<br />
Formation of the chlamydospotes<br />
Germination of the chlamydospores<br />
Development of sporidia on the host<br />
Growth in culture<br />
CYTOLOGY<br />
GENETICS<br />
Incompatibility<br />
Gametophyte in culture<br />
Spore and soral characters<br />
Germination of hybrid spores<br />
Pathogenicity .<br />
Mutation<br />
TECHNIQUE<br />
Collection and examination of herbarium material<br />
Harvesting, storage, and germination of chlamydospores<br />
Media for growth in culture<br />
Preparation of monosporidial cultures .<br />
Tests for the compatibility of monosporidial lines<br />
Infection of the host .<br />
Control<br />
Fixatives<br />
Stains .<br />
CLASSIFICATION<br />
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Ustilaginales<br />
Key to genera<br />
Ustilaginaceae<br />
Tilletiaceae<br />
Graphiolaceae<br />
Doubtful and excluded species<br />
REFERENCES<br />
INDEX .<br />
9<br />
10<br />
10<br />
13<br />
13<br />
15<br />
17<br />
21<br />
24<br />
27<br />
29<br />
29<br />
30<br />
32<br />
34/<br />
35<br />
35 ^<br />
39<br />
39<br />
40<br />
41<br />
41<br />
42<br />
43<br />
46<br />
48<br />
49<br />
51<br />
53<br />
53<br />
54 •<br />
54<br />
81<br />
111<br />
112<br />
113<br />
133
INTRODUCTION<br />
THE smut fungi, which are represented in Britain by seventy-four species, are<br />
nearly all parasites of flowering plants. They inhabit stems, leaves, and floral<br />
organs and are most easily recognized in the fruiting condition, when they<br />
produce a sorus of spores, which are, in the mass, usually dark in colour and<br />
often powdery. The sorus may be naked or covered by a membrane of fungal<br />
origin; it may consist of spores only or be traversed by a columella of sterile<br />
mycelium or by threads of host tissue. The spores (chlamydospores) are onecelled<br />
and thick-walled. They are single or united in balls, which may contain<br />
both fertile and sterile cells. The wall of the spore is smooth or ornamented in<br />
various ways. Rarely the spores carry hyaline appendage, but they are always<br />
without stalks and arise from a closely septate mycelium which is generally used<br />
up completely in spore formation.<br />
The chlamydospore, though not the only unit of dispersal, is certainly the<br />
most important means of dissemination in many smuts. In some species germination<br />
may occur while the spores are still embedded in the host tissue; in others,<br />
spores, ripe for dispersal, are not necessarily ripe for germination and time must<br />
elapse before this process begins. Mature chlamydospores in certain species of<br />
economic importance are known to remain viable for a pericfd of several years.<br />
Those who have studied the early development of a soruti agree in finding, two<br />
nuclei in the very young chlamydospore. These fuse and it is generally accepted<br />
that the mature chlamydospore contains a single diploid nucleus. Meiosis occurs<br />
in the promycelium, the germ-tube produced when a ripe chlamydospore starts<br />
growth. Haploid nuclei pass into the sporidia or branches arising from the<br />
promycelium, and become paired when the appropriate gametic elements unite.<br />
Fusion of nuclei is, however, delayed until the last stages of sporogenesis. It<br />
seems probable, therefore, that the parasitic mycehum of many smut fungi is<br />
dicaryophytic and that the gametophytic phase in nature is often very short,<br />
sometimes limited to one cell. Entyloma and alUed genera are exceptional since<br />
they produce haploid sporidia freely on the living host.<br />
Smuts, as a rule, develop easily on culture media, and studies have been made<br />
of their saprophj^ic growth and the segregation of gametophytic characters.<br />
Most of the species so far investigated are heterothaUic, carrying one or more<br />
pairs of allelomorphic genes, which govern the fusion of haplonts. While progress<br />
has been made in genetics, our knowledge of the cytology of smuts is scant.<br />
The Ustilaginales is a compact and clearly defined group embracing the<br />
Ustilaginaceae and the TiLletiaceae together with a family of somewhat uncertain<br />
afiBnities, the Graphiolaceae. The Graphiolaceae comprises three species<br />
parasitic on the leaves of'palms. It is represented in this country by the exotic<br />
OrapJiiola phoenicis in which the chlamydospores, united in chains within a<br />
compact fructification, bud in situ to form sporidia which are dispersed. The<br />
other two famiUes are differentiated by the morphology of the promyceHum<br />
arid its branches. In the Ustilaginaceae the germ-tube soon becomes septate and<br />
buds laterally; in the TUletiaceae it remains at least for a time non-septate and<br />
produces a terminal whorl of branches. Whether lateral or terminal, these<br />
branches are the gametic elements which ultimately fuse in pairs. In both
10 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
families copulation can occur between cells of the promycelium or between<br />
sporidia abstricted from it. In a smut like TJstilago avenae the sporidia bud<br />
repeatedly on a suitable medium and give rise to a gelatinous-looking colony<br />
with superficial configurations and colours which remain constant for a particular<br />
monosporidial line. In certain members of the Tilletiaceae aerial sporidia,<br />
which are discharged with a droplet of water as in. Hymenomycetes, develop on<br />
the host and in culture.<br />
The subdivision into genera, which follows similar lines in both the UstUaginaceae<br />
and the Tilletiaceae, is based on the nature of the sorus and the aggregation<br />
of the spores. The ornamentation and the size of the spores and the size<br />
and covering of the sorus are characters mainly used to separate species. A<br />
number of species include races which differ only in their host relationships, and<br />
some of these have been given specific rank. The authors hold the view that it<br />
is best to restrict the use of Latin binomials to biotypes which differ morphologically<br />
and to designate physiologic races in some other way.<br />
ECONOMIC IMPOETANCB<br />
The "Dstilaginales is a group of great economic importance. It includes fungi<br />
pathogenic for many crop plants of both temperate and tropical regions. Cereal<br />
crops in all countries are particularly liable to suffer heavy losses from smuts.<br />
Wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize, sorghum, rice, and millet are each susceptible<br />
to one or more species, and there is a very extensive literature on methods<br />
designed for controlling the smut diseases of these plants. Sugar-cane smut and<br />
onion smut are also major diseases, while among those of less importance are the<br />
smut diseases of certain fodder grasses and of various ornamental plants.<br />
No smut is pathogenic for man or animals, although there are reports from<br />
North America of air-borne spores of cereal smuts causing respiratory allergy<br />
in man (Wittich & Stakman, 1937; Harris, 1939 a, 1939 b). There are also reports<br />
from the Argentine of sheep and horses being poisoned by eating grass infected<br />
by Ustilago bullata (Marchionatto, 1930), and in Yugoslavia a disorder in children<br />
known as ' ustilaginism' has been attributed to poisoning by V. maydis (see<br />
Mayerhofer & Dragi§ic, 1938). The toxic effect of V. maydis was studied by<br />
Hunt & Thompson (1938), but the active principle could not be identified.<br />
SMUT DISEASES IN BEITAIN<br />
Cereals. Bunt of wheat (Tilletia caries) was known to the Romans (for an<br />
interesting historical survey, see Woolman & Humphrey, 1924) and has long<br />
been recognized in this country. An early reference to the disease is that by<br />
Jethro TuU in his Horse-hoeing Husbandry, 1733, which includes a chapter ' Of<br />
Smuttiness': an account of wheat bunt of particular interest for its recommendation<br />
of seed treatment as a control measure. Steeping the seed in brine is advocated,<br />
a 'cure' which is stated to have been discovered accidentally about<br />
seventy years before, when a shipload of wheat was sunk near Bristol one<br />
autumn, and at the following harvest all the wheat in England happened to be<br />
smutty except the produce of wheat salvaged from this wreck.<br />
During recent years bad attacks of bunt have been few, although in England<br />
and Wales alone the disease is still responsible for the loss or spoilage of thousands
INTRODUCTION H<br />
of bushels of wheat each year (Moore, 1945). Bunt was more common after the<br />
1914-18 War, probably due to the shortage of reliable seed, but since then iheve<br />
has been a steady decline. The proportion of bunted samples in the wheat<br />
examined by the Official Seed Testing Station at Cambridge was 33 per cent, in<br />
1921-2, ihe peak year during the past quarter of a century, from which it fell to<br />
5-1 per cent, in 1932-3, and to 1-2 per cent, in 1940-1 (Moore, 1943), a fall which<br />
must, at least in.part, be attributed to the more general use of seed dressed with<br />
more efficient fungicides.<br />
Rye is occasionally attacked by bunt and by the stripe smut of rye {Urocystis<br />
occulta); see Moore (1948). It is interesting to note that T.foetida, a smut very<br />
closely allied to T. caries and a frequent cause of wheat bunt both in North<br />
America and in central Europe, has never been found in this country. Flag smut<br />
of wheat {U. agropyri, often as U.tritici), also, is unrecorded for Britain although<br />
a damaging disease in Australia, the United States, and other parts of the world,<br />
including southern Europe. Wheat in these islands is, however, not uncommonly<br />
affected by loose smut caused by Ustilago nuda (or 17. tritici, as the physiologic<br />
race of this species which attacks wheat is usually called). In this smut floral<br />
infection takes place and the resultmg seed has mycelium within the tissues, so<br />
that treatment of the surface of the seed does not eradicate the infection. The<br />
disease is not of great importance in Great Britain, but whenever healthy seed<br />
is unobtainable, infected seed may be subjected to the hot-water treatment.<br />
Barley is subject to infection by a different physiologic race of the same fungus,<br />
but, again, loose smut of barley is usually not serious. During the period<br />
1922-31 it was recorded in 6-9 to 15-5 per cent, of the samples examined by the<br />
Official Seed Testing Station, but in only 1-3 to 7-1 per cent, during the succeeding<br />
decade (Moore, 1943).<br />
Barley is also subject to a covered smut {Ustilago hordei), the spores of which<br />
contaminate the seed, and so are vulnerable to seed treatment with a suitable<br />
fungicide. Oats are attacked by both covered and loose smuts, caused by a<br />
physiologic race of U. hordei (frequently distinguished as U. kolleri) and by<br />
U. avenae, respectively, but, in routine disease surveys, these two diseases are<br />
not usually distinguished. Loose smut is the commoner of the two, but covered<br />
smut is not uncommon on strigosa varieties in mid-Wales. Both diseases may<br />
be prevented by seed treatment.<br />
Grasses. Grasses are often found infected by smuts, and Sampson & Western<br />
(1941) surveyed their occurrence "on grasses of agricultural importance. Apart<br />
from occasional spoilage of hay crops, such as occurred in Northamptonshire,<br />
Lancashire, and Leicestershire in 1936 (Moore, 1943), the smuts are, economically,<br />
diseases of secondary importance on grasses in this country.<br />
Onion. Onion smut (Urocystis cepulae) was first recorded in England in 1918<br />
(Cotton, 1919), when irtvestigation showed that the disease had probably<br />
occurred in onions and leeks near Edinburgh in 1912. It occurs most frequently<br />
in the northern counties, but in 1942 it appeared in the Evesham area of<br />
Worcestershire. The disease is a serious one and is scheduled by the Ministry<br />
of Agriculture under the Destructive Insect and Pests Acts. Its presence on<br />
any land or plants must be notified to the Ministry or to one of the Ministry's<br />
inspectors. Up to the end of 1942 there had been eighty-seven records from<br />
eleven counties (see Moore (1948), p. 51, for distribution map).
12 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Ornamental plants. The smuts which affect ornamental plants are usually of<br />
minor importance. Dahlia smut (Entyloma caleTidulae f. dahliae), which is<br />
widely distributed, is occasionally sufficiently severe to warrant treatment with<br />
Bordeaux mixture, and anther smut {Ustilago violacea) at times does damage to<br />
carnations under glass (White, 1936). Other smiit diseases, which on occasion<br />
attract attention, are those of cultivated violets (Vrocystis violae), gladioH<br />
(U. gladiolicola), and calendula {Entyloma calendulas).
FIG. 1. Vstilago avenae on Arrhenatherum<br />
elatius.<br />
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FIG. 3. Vstilago striiformis<br />
on Holcus lanatus.<br />
FIG. 2. Vstilago nuda on wheat.<br />
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FIG. 4. Vstilago grandis on FiG. 5. Vstilago hypodytes on<br />
Phragmites communis. Elymus arenarius.<br />
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BIOLOGY<br />
ENTRANCE AND INVASION OF THE HOST<br />
IT seems to be generally true that smut fungi can enter the host only at points<br />
where the tissue is relatively young. Varying with the species, infection occurs<br />
through the plumule on emergence from the seed (Tilletia caries, Ustilago avenae,<br />
and others), axillary buds {U. maydis), immature leaves {Entylomaficariae), or<br />
young ovaries (Ustilago nuda). As tissues age, they become more resistant to<br />
attack and finally attain immunity, even in susceptible varieties. In oats, for<br />
example, infection by smut rarely occurs after the shoot is more than one iach<br />
in length, and onion seedlings escape attack if penetration does not occur before<br />
the first leaf emerges from the cotyledon (Walker & Jones, 1921; Anderson,<br />
1921). Evans (1933) studied the development of Urocystis cepulae mycelium in<br />
the cotyledon, showing how its advance slowed down as the tissue approached<br />
maturity, until finally the invading hyphae failed to pass beyond the sub-cuticular<br />
layer of the outer epidermal wall. The cotyledons of onions at a critical<br />
age showed minute sub-cuticular vesicles, consisting of fungus mycelium which<br />
had pierced the cuticle and digested a portion of the cell wall but had not succeeded<br />
in. entering the cell and establishing an active infection centre.<br />
A similar response to invasion is made when highly resistant varieties of<br />
wheat, oats, and rye are attacked by certain races of smuts. Penetration of the<br />
outer wall occurs but growth does not extend beyond the epidermal cell (Woolman,<br />
1930; Western, 1936b; Ling, 1940b). In less resistant varieties the parasite<br />
progresses for a time, even reaching the stele of the host, but fails to enter the<br />
flower primordia and does not sporulate (Sampson, 1933). This so-called 'latent<br />
infection' may aifect adversely the growth and yield of wheat varieties like<br />
Heils Dickkopf which have been regarded as immune from bunt (Zade, 1931).<br />
In susceptible varieties of our common cereals, once the smut has passed the<br />
barrier of the epidermal wall, it usually grows from cell to cell without causing<br />
necrosis or any apparent disturbance to the host. Seedlings infected by bunt can<br />
sometimes be recognized by their distorted growth and mottled foUage (Churchward,<br />
1934; Johnston & Lefebre, 1939; Churchward, 1940), and it is not rare to<br />
find infected seedlings sensitive to winter conditions, but, normally, no external<br />
symptoms distinguish seedlings that carry the myceUum of smut fungi.<br />
The growth of the smut mycehum is, at first, both intra- and intercellular, but,<br />
after a time, more and more intercellular mycelium is found. SpeciaUzed<br />
haustoria (Fig. 20 a), common in some species, are not formed by the cereal<br />
smuts, but short hyphae can sometimes be seen penetrating the cells. Infected<br />
seedlings of susceptible varieties carry mycehum in the mesocotyl, coleoptUe,<br />
young leaves, and finally in the growing-point itself (Kolk, 1930, Sampson, 1933).<br />
Once this is reached, the fungri rarely fails to develop spores since changes in<br />
temperature, water supply, manuring, and Ught have very little restraining<br />
efi'ect (Sampson & Western, 1938; Reed, 1938).<br />
Cereal smuts, which fructify in the inflorescence, penetrate the leaves of adult<br />
plants only to a shght extent, but, where conditions especially favour the fungus,<br />
sori may develop in lines along the flag leaf. Even Tilletia caries and T. foetida<br />
wUl sometimes form ehlamydospores in wart-like galls on leaves (Plor, 1932).
^^ THE BBITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Young healthy mycelium is full of granular protoplasm with an affinity for<br />
stains, such as gentian violet, saffranin, and fast green, but in older tissue<br />
portions of the mycelium may be empty and coUapsed, sometimes having the<br />
form of a long filiform strand, sometimes thick with an enveloping sheath<br />
(Kolk, 1930; Woolman, 1930; Western, 1936 b; Evans, 1933). It is not always<br />
easy to find mycehum in older plants, but it does not disappear entirely, and<br />
sometimes sporulation occurs in late tillers induced to develop by removing<br />
those first formed and smut-free.<br />
Some smuts which attack perennial plants are systemic, hibernating in underground<br />
stems or bulbs and reappearing each year to form spores in the appropriate<br />
part of the host. Mycelium of Ustilago vaillantii, for example, can be<br />
found at the base of bulbs of the grape hyacinth, where the mycelium forms<br />
botryform haustoria, consisting of a cluster of short inflated branches. Each<br />
year mycelium passes into the young inflorescence and sporulates in the anthers,<br />
replacing the pale yellow pollen by dark chlamydospores but having otherwise<br />
little effect on the host (Massee, 1914). De Bary recorded a plant of Saponaria<br />
officinalis in the Freiburg Botanic Garden, which was for ten successive years<br />
affected with U. violacea, and Plowright refers to plants in his garden at King's<br />
Lynn of Golchicum autumnale, Agropyron repens, and Arrhenatherum elatius<br />
which carried their respective smuts for at least six years (Plowright, 1889).<br />
Among the perennial economic grasses infected by a smut mention may be<br />
made of timothy and smooth-stalked meadow grass, which are sometimes<br />
severely injured by stripe smut (Davis, 1926; Kreitlow & Myers, 1944). ^<br />
In some smut diseases the area of infection is localized, the fungus sporulating<br />
not far from the seat of invasion. U. maydis, for example, which attacks<br />
axiUary buds or young floral organs, produces in a comparatively short time<br />
small or large swellings containing spores. Each gall or ball usually represents<br />
a separate infection. Species of Entyloma, which attack the leaves of many<br />
different plants, form angular Ibsions, the chlamydospores developing round<br />
each infection centre in a typical leaf spot, except where very heavy infection<br />
destroys the whole lamina.<br />
Before emergence of the ear it is not possible to distinguish with certainty<br />
in the field plants of wheat, oats, or barley systemicly infected by smuts, but<br />
careful records and measurements have shown that the growth of the host is<br />
affected in several ways. Oat plants carrying smut produce extra tUlers, while<br />
growth in height is often considerably reduced (Talieff & Grigorovitch, 1923;<br />
Sampson, 1929; Welsh, 1932). Even smut-resistant varieties may be adversely<br />
affected in growth and vigour (Hubbard & Stanton, 1934; Stevens, 1936).<br />
Bunt of wheat may either promote or retard tillering but it almost" invariably<br />
reduces height (Zade, 1931; Lang, 1917a; Mourashkinsky, 1925; Viennot-<br />
Bourgin, 1937), the magnitude of the effect depending on the variety and the<br />
physiologic race of the fungus (Holton, 1935; Aamodt e( aL, 1936; Schlehuber,<br />
1937). The effect of bunt on the form of the wheat ear also varies. A broadawned<br />
ear like that of American Club (Triticnim compactum), if bunted, is<br />
abnormally long and awnless; a lax ear, like that of Hen Gymro (T. vulgare),<br />
when attacked by bunt is shorter and the awns are also reduced in length<br />
(Sampson & Davies, 1927; DiUon Weston, 1929). Wheat plants infected by<br />
U. nuda are said to be markedly stunted and their dry weight at flowering time
FIG. 1. Melanotaenium FIG. 2. Ustilago violalamii<br />
on Lamiuni alhuni. cea on carnation. Longitudinal<br />
section of infected<br />
flower.<br />
..-'^- . ^<br />
^./<br />
FIG. 4. Entyloma calendulae f. dahliae<br />
dahlia leaflet.<br />
^<br />
/<br />
FIG. 3. Vrocystis cepulae on<br />
onion.<br />
FIG. 5. Entyloma ficariae on<br />
Ranunculus ficariae. Under-gnrface<br />
of leaf showing sporidia.
BIOLOGY 15<br />
less than the normal, in spite of an increased rate of assimilation (KoursanofF,<br />
1926). The dwarfing effect of a smut on a grass is well illustrated by the fact that<br />
plants of Agrostis tenuis infected by Tilletia decipiens are so stunted that they<br />
were described as a distinct species (see p. 86).<br />
U. hypodytes, which attacks several forage grasses, causes sterility, long leafy<br />
shoots developing in place of normal inflorescences. The morphology and<br />
anatomy of such diseased shoots in Elymus arenarius and the distribution of<br />
mycelium have been described by Viennot-Bourgin (1937) and by Bond (1940).<br />
A peculiar type of proliferation, whereby individual flowers are replaced by<br />
leaves, stems, and rudimentary panicles, is often seen in sorghum infected by<br />
head smut, Sphacelotheca reiliana (Potter, 1914). Finger-like galls develop from<br />
the axillary buds of Panicum antidotale attacked by Tilletia tumefaciens Sydow<br />
(Mundkur, 1944), and tuberous bodies up to an inch in length are formed<br />
from underground shoots of Lamium album infected by Melanotaenium lamii<br />
(Plate II, Fig. 1).<br />
FORMATION OF THE CHLAMYDOSPOEES '<br />
The formation of a sorus is preceded by the massing of mycehum in that part<br />
of the plant where spores are destined to develop. The details of sporogenesis<br />
appear to differ with the species. Comparatively few have been examined in<br />
detail, none in recent years. A few types have been selected here for individual<br />
consideration.<br />
USTrLAGiNACBAE. Lutman (1910) described the development of spores in the<br />
oat race of Ustilago hordei as follows: ' The first indication of spore formation<br />
in the fungal hyphae is a much branched and contorted condition of some of the<br />
hyphal tips. These are at the same time inter-cellular and this knotting up of<br />
the hyphal tips frequently occurs at the angles of the host cells where they may<br />
be wedged apart considerably. These swollen ends of the hyphae are multinucleated,<br />
each one containing ten to fifteen nuclei. The cell walls now begin<br />
to gelatinize from the inside, a clear zone appearing between the protoplasm and<br />
the darker staining wall. The nests or pustules of hyphae continue to grow and<br />
swell and their waUs become so completely gelatinized at this stage that all that<br />
seems to be present is a tangle of hyphae of irregular shape and varying diameter,<br />
without walls, and lying in a clear matrix. At the same time, the walls<br />
of the host cells immediately adjacent lose the capacity to take up the stain,<br />
the gelatinization of the fungal walls having apparently extended to the walls<br />
of the host cells also.' The changes in the ceU wall, referred to by Lutman and<br />
by others as gelatinization, appear to accompany sporogenesis in several<br />
members of the Ustilaginaceae. The chemical changes involved have not been<br />
studied. A visible swelling is associated with a loss of staining capacity, with<br />
the result that the protoplasts appear in sections as deeply stained masses<br />
separated by a clear space, the gelatinized wall. The development of spines<br />
within the gelatinous matrix has been studied recently by Hutchins & Lutman<br />
(1938) (see p. 50).<br />
Lutman was unable to distinguish the nuclei with certainty in U. hordei, but<br />
he suggests that the small, somewhat angular segments of hyphae finally<br />
separated are binucleate. They become round, develop a thick waU, and form
16<br />
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
the chlamydospores, which are uninucleate when mature. The process was<br />
found to be similar in V. maydis.<br />
Several workers, who have studied the early stages of sporogenesis in species<br />
of Ustilago, refer to a tendency for spores to develop in chains (Schroeter, 1877;<br />
Fischer von Waldheim, 1869). Massee (1914), working with U. vaillantii, states<br />
that the vegetative mycelium is broken up by transverse walls into uninucleate<br />
cuboid segments, which become binucleate by the dehquescence and disappearance<br />
of alternate septa. Sartoris (1924) has described the formation of spores in<br />
JJ. heufleri. Mycelium in the host, Erythronium americanum, is always intercellular,<br />
spreading but a little way from the point of infection. The hj^hae<br />
cause the separation and disintegration of the host cells, finally forming a<br />
pustule, which segments to give mature chlamydospores in seven to ten days.<br />
The mycelium, 3 to 5 /u. in diameter, is said to be multinucleate with the nuclei<br />
nearly always associated in loose pairs. As segmentation proceeds, two nuclei<br />
are left in each cell, which rounds off and becomes free. The wall thickens and<br />
the surface becomes gelatinized which makes it difficult to follow the fate of the<br />
nuclei. In a few cases binucleate spores were seen, but the probability is that<br />
fusion usually takes place as the wall thickens and develops the two distinct<br />
layers, which are characteristic of the mature chlamydospore.<br />
The development of spores in U. vuijckii, a species inhabiting the capsules of<br />
Luzula spp., presents some interesting features. The cells are connected by<br />
clamp-connexions, apparently similar to those found in many Hymenomycetes,<br />
and the spores develop in chains, alternating with clamps which bear a strong<br />
resemblance to antheridia (Liro, 1924).<br />
THiLBTiACBAB. In Tilletia and in Entyloma the chlamydospores arise at the<br />
ends of short side-branches (Fischer von Waldheim, 1869). Lutman (1910)<br />
described the process in E. nympheae as follows: 'A short lateral branch, dense<br />
with cytoplasm and binucleate, is put out from one of the larger hyphae. As it<br />
grows in length and thickness, the two nuclei, which at first lie parallel with the<br />
long axis of the cell, come to be side by side. The stalk of the spore becomes<br />
vacuolate, and finally a large vacuole seems to cut off the hypha bearing it and<br />
the wall develops .behind. The wall of the spore thickens and becomes covered<br />
with minute spines. The axis becomes apiculate by the thickening of the end<br />
wall and a large vacuole develops and pushes the nucleus to one side.'<br />
Several writers have described the spiral coiling of hyphae which initiates<br />
spore formation in Vrocystis (Kiihn, 1858; De Bary, 1866; Wolif, 1873; Winter,<br />
1881). Anderson (1921) studied sporogenesis in U. cepuJae. The onset of spore<br />
formation is indicated by the massing of mycelium between the cells. Instead<br />
of growing in long, straight, slender strands, the myceUum is branched, twisted,<br />
and interwoven into dense tangles, which push the cells apart and increase the<br />
areas of intercellular space, within which spores are subsequently formed. The<br />
hyphae become highly vacuolated and the protoplasm stains deeply. The spore<br />
arises as a lateral or terminal branch which curves back on itself in the form of a<br />
crozier. Protuberances mark the origin of branches which ultimately form the<br />
sterile cortical cells. The central fertUe cell appears to be the enlarged terminal<br />
cell of the crozier, though it is not certain that this is always its origin. As the<br />
fertile cell enlarges, the surrounding hyphae become tightly pressed against it
BIOLOGy 17<br />
and united with it, finally breaking up into separate elements, which appear as<br />
scattered, conical cells with flat bases firmly attached to the surface of the<br />
central cell. There appearsto be no gelatinization of the walls as in the Ustilaginaceae.<br />
At maturity the fertile cells contain a single nucleus, 3 to 4 /x in diameter<br />
with a prominent, deeply staining nucleolus 0-6 ft in diameter. A single<br />
small nucleus (about 0-6 (i) is found in each accessory cell. The corresponding<br />
ceUs are without nuclei in U. violae (Dangeard, 1894 a), and Blizzard (1926)<br />
records the disappearance of nuclei in the sterile cells of U. cepulae.<br />
In U. occulta the cells of the vegetative hyphae are for the most part binucleate.<br />
During sporogenesis some of the cells enlarge and their nuclei soon fuse, so that<br />
they are almost uniformly uninucleate by the time they can be recognized as<br />
spores. At this stage the nucleus is relatively large and a nucleolus is visible.<br />
The cells of those hyphae, which envelop the spore initial and form, the<br />
sterile cells, remain for a time binucleate but ultimately their nuclei disappear<br />
(Stakman, Cassell, & Moore, 1934).<br />
In Doassansia deformans the baU of spores begins as a tangled mass of hyphae<br />
in one of the intercellular spaces of hypertrophied host tissue. At this stage the<br />
cytoplasm is very dense, and, in all ceUs where nuclei can be seen clearly, they<br />
are in pairs. At first all the cells are ahke, but those inside soon begin to lose<br />
their contents and become transparent. The outer cells divide and contribute<br />
to the sterile cells in the centre. Finally, in the nearly mature spore ball the<br />
external cells with dense cytoplasm contain two nuclei in various stages of<br />
fusion. A felted layer of hyphae surrounds the mature ball (Lutman, 1910).<br />
GEAPHIOLACEAB. GrapMola phoenicis, which grows on the fronds of the date<br />
palm, has been investigated by KilHan (1924). The vegetative myceUum and the<br />
young fructifications are formed of uninucleate cells. Those at the base of the<br />
central plectenchyma give rise to a growing tissue composed of elongated cells<br />
containing several dicaryons. Finally, these form a block of ceUs, each with two<br />
nuclei which ultimately fuse. These cells, which correspond to chlamydospores,<br />
are not themselves disseminated. They germinate in situ by budding off uninucleate<br />
sporidia which are dispersed through an opening at the top of the<br />
fructification.<br />
GERMINATION O? THS: CHLAMYDOSPOEES<br />
The rest period. The chlamydospores of smuts, Uke seeds, vary widely in<br />
longevity. Spores of different species differ in their ability to germinate at the<br />
time of dissemination; some are capable of immediate growth, others must pass<br />
through an after-ripening period. Many workers have experienced difficulties<br />
in obtaining germination and have recorded the variable results given by different<br />
collections of the same species. This is not surprising when it is understood<br />
that germination depends, not only on the conditions under which a test is<br />
made, but also upon the age of the spores, the degree of maturity at the time<br />
of harvest, and the method of storage. Moreover, closely related species and<br />
physiologic races vary in the time of year when their spores germinate in nature.<br />
In the genera Entyloma and Doassansia, where the chlamydospores are held<br />
somewhat firmly by the host tissue, germination often occurs in situ as a continuous<br />
process of development which results in the dissemination of sporidia
18 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
and the infection of new leaves in the current season. That spores of the same<br />
species can also overwinter is shown by the infection of healthy shoots which<br />
occurs if old leaves carrying chlamydospores are Spread over the soil in spring.<br />
Setchell (1892) found that in D. alismatis most spores, from a mature sorus<br />
would germinate while still in the leaf, but dry leaves kept for nearly a year in<br />
the laboratory still contained some spores capable) of growth. In D. sagittariae<br />
and in D. occulta germination only occurs in spring, while in D. obscura it takes<br />
place in nature during October.<br />
Germination in situ is not the normal process for srhuts with dusty sori,<br />
which permit dissemination of spores, but in many species immediate germination<br />
is possible and spores are viable over a long period of time. In some species,<br />
notably the loose smut of wheat and barley which infects at flowering time,<br />
germination reaches a maximum during the summer, falls rapidly in the autumn,<br />
and is often negligible in collections only a year old. Stakman (1913), however,<br />
found no loss in viability after ten months' storage. Viability could perhaps be<br />
maintained even in this species over a longer period by controlled methods of<br />
harvesting and storage. Collections of spores of the loose smut of oats, which<br />
were allowed to mature in parchment bags, gave good germination results and<br />
remained viable for several years, while others harvested in the field soon after<br />
the emergence of the diseased panicle quickly lost their viability. In a certain<br />
collection of the covered smut of oats a maximum figure for germination was<br />
not obtained until some weeks after harvest, but once reached no falling off<br />
occurred for at least 2| years (Sampson, 1928). Davis (1924), working with<br />
Ustilago striiformis on Agroatis palustris, Phkum pratense, Poa pratensis, and<br />
Dactylis glomerata found that the spores required an after-ripening period of<br />
240 days when stored in the laboratory, or 265 days in. the field, before giving<br />
satisfactory germination. A similar result was obtained by Kreitlow (1943 a)<br />
working with the same smut on Poa, but one collection on Agrostis gave a germination<br />
of 50 to 75 per cent, without any period of storage. Fischer (1940) also<br />
obtained good germination of fresh spores in a closely related smut collected on<br />
Agropyron pauciflorum and Elymus glaucus. Kreitlow (1943 b) reduced the<br />
need for an after-ripening period by growing the host at 32° C. and by storing<br />
smutted leaves in a moist chamber at 35° C, but results by these methods may<br />
be erratic (Leach, Lowther, & Ryan, 1946). Exposure to chloroform fumes for<br />
one minute or to a 10 per cent, citric acid solution for five minutes shortened<br />
the after-ripening period by about one month (Davis, 1924).<br />
Forms of Urocystis anemones also differ in time of germination, since Kniep<br />
(1921) found that those collected from the creeping buttercup would grow at<br />
once and infect the young leaves, while spores taken from the wood anemone,<br />
a plant that quickly dies down, germinated only in spring, when the new growth<br />
was breaking through the soil.<br />
In view of such facts it is not surprising that collections from herbaria have<br />
given variable results. Fischer (1936 b) tested for germination material from<br />
the Plant Pathology Herbarium in the State College of Washington. Among<br />
387 specimens examined, 80 had viable spores. The most noteworthy examples<br />
of longevity were Tilletia foetida (25 years), T. caries (18 years), Ustilago hordei<br />
(23 years), U. bullata (10 years), U. avenae (13 years), Sphacelotheca sorghi<br />
(13 years), and Entyloma calendulae f. dahliae (10 years). Sobel (1933) recorded
BIOLOGY 19<br />
eermination in a collection of U. hordei from oats 13| years old and Noble (1934)<br />
germinated Urocystis tnitici after storage at low humidity for 10 years. Fischer<br />
suggests that, on the whole, members of the Tilletiaceae survive longer than the<br />
tJstUaginaceae, but the record for viabihty is that quoted by C. S. Wang (1936)<br />
for Ustilago crameri from Setaria italica which gave 1 per cent, germination 64<br />
years after harvest. Fischer's data from exsiccati confirm the importance of<br />
maturity as a factor in the potential life of a collection of spores.<br />
Environmental conditions, {a) Temperature. From experiments on the germination<br />
of chlamydospores of the more important economic species, it appears<br />
that growth will take place over a wide range of temperatures. In the species of<br />
Ustilago that attack the temperate cereals, the cardinal temperature points for<br />
germination fluctuate round the following values: minimum, 5° C.; optimum,<br />
22° C.; maximum, 30° C. (Herzberg, 1895; Bartholomew & Jones, 1923; Jones,<br />
1923 a; Novopokrovsky & Skaskin, 1925; Rump, 1926; Yen, 1937). Somewhat<br />
similar figures are given for U. striiformis (Davis, 1924). The corresponding<br />
points for certain smuts on maize and mUlet are about five or even ten degrees<br />
higher (Jones, 1923 b; Novopokrovsky & Skaskin, 1925; Lobik & Dahlstrem,<br />
1936; Yen, 1937). Christensen (1926) found that a high temperature (28° C.)<br />
favoured the infection of sorghum by head smut.<br />
Hahne (1926) gives these figures for the two bunts of wheat; minimum 4° C.;<br />
optimum, 18°-20° C.; maximum, 36° C. Speaking generally, a low temperature<br />
(about 15° C.) favours both germination of bunt spores and infection of the<br />
host (Lobik & Dahlstrem, 1936; Hungerford, 1922; Faris, 1924 c), but the<br />
optimum temperature for infection varies with the variety (Feucht, 1932). See<br />
also Tapke (1948).<br />
Walker & Wellman (1926) found the optimum temperature for germination<br />
of chlamydospores of Urocystis cepulae to lie between 13° and 22° C. Infection<br />
of the host occurred when the soil temperature was as low as 10° C. a point near<br />
the lower Umit for the germination of onion seed, but early sowing in the state<br />
of New York helped to control the disease by reason of the relatively low<br />
(8°-13° C.) temperature of the soil (Felix, 1939).<br />
Noble (1923) obtained germination of U. agropyri from wheat over a wide<br />
range of temperature, 5°-32° C, with an optimum at 18° to 24° C. Ling (1940 a)<br />
obtained similar results with U. occulta from rye, giving the optimum as 15° C,<br />
(For the effect of temperature on the mode of germination, see pp. 56, 66.)<br />
(6) Light. For most germination tests spores are placed in dark incubators<br />
and receive light only when examined. In general, Hght has not been regarded<br />
as a critical factor for the germination of chlamydospores. Tests in hght and<br />
darkness have often given similar results (Stakman, 1913; Lobik & Dahlstrem,<br />
1936; Ling, 1940a; Hulea, 1947). Hahne (1925) workmg with Tilletia and Kaiser<br />
(1936) with Entyloma obtained bett^er results in light. In the absence of daylight<br />
Kaiser (1936) stimulated germination by means of a fluorescent dye.<br />
Ultra-violet Hght retarded both germination and subsequent growth in Ustilago<br />
nmydis (Landen, 1939).<br />
(c) Media. See pages 24 and 40.<br />
The promycelium. The distinctive methods of germination in Ustilago and<br />
Tilletia were first recognized by Prevost in 1807. Tulasne (1847,1854) described<br />
and figured the process in several species of Ustilago, demonstrated the fusion of
20 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
sporidia, and described more fully the development of primary and secondary<br />
sporidia in T. caries. The grouping of genera into two families, the Ustila~<br />
ginaceae and the Tilletiaoeae, has been foUowed Since Brefeld (1883, 1895) made<br />
his extensive studies on germination and growth in culture. In the nineteenth<br />
century Fischer von Waldheim (1869), Wolff (1873), de Bary (1874), Schroeter<br />
(1877), Woronin (1882), and others greatly increased our knowledge of germination<br />
and development in a number of species and genera.<br />
Thegerm-tubeput out by a chlamydospore in the Ustilaginales is typically au<br />
organ of limited growth, which either branches or cuts off hyaline, thin-walled<br />
sporidia in a characteristic manner. The term 'promycelium', originally used by<br />
de Bary (1853), has been widely adopted. Brefeld, linking the group with the<br />
higher Basidiomycetes, used the term 'hemibasidium'. The spores developing on<br />
the promycelium have been called promycelial spores (Plowright, 1889), conidia<br />
(Stevens, 1913), 'endconidia' (Paravicini, 1917), basidiospores (Gwynne<br />
Vaughan & Barnes, 1927), sporidia (Tulasne, 1854; Wolff, 1873; Woronin, 1882;<br />
Schroeter, 1877; de Bary, 1874). The adjectives primary, secondary, tertiary<br />
are used to indicate sequence of development. BuUer (1933), from his study of<br />
the interesting method of discharge of allantoid sporidia in T. carries, proposed<br />
changes in terminology in order to bring the group more into line with Hymenomycetes.<br />
It would be difficult to apply this logically throughout the Ustilaginales,<br />
and the writers prefer a simpler terminology which can be used for all<br />
species. While parallels can, admittedly, be drawn between the Ustilaginales<br />
and the Hymenomycetes, the smut fungi constitute a specialized and distinctive<br />
group with some unique characters. In contrast to the almost rigid standardization<br />
of the zygote (the chlamydospore), gametic production is both varied and<br />
plastic. Gametes are not recognized by form, but by behaviour, and copulation<br />
can occur in diverse ways. Moreover the gametophyte, Mid sometimes the<br />
dicaryophyte, multiply readily, both in nature and artificially. We have<br />
decided, therefore, to use the term 'sporidium' for all types of exogenous, thinwaUed<br />
spores, whether abstricted from the promycelium directly, from subsequent<br />
growth in culture, or from mycehum in the host. Sporidia may arise by<br />
budding, they may be slimed off the mycelium, or forcibly discharged from finely<br />
pointed sterigmata. Segments of the germ-tube which simulate sporidia but<br />
remain attached are referred to as promycehal branches. They have been called<br />
sporidia by some writers.<br />
The length of the promycelium varies with conditions of growth. The protoplasm<br />
streams towards the apex, and a cross-wall is formed, separating a densely<br />
protoplasmic, terminal cell from one containing only a thin layer of cytoplasm.<br />
The process may be repeated several times, with the result that long promyceHa<br />
even in Tilletia are septate in the older empty region near the chlamydospore<br />
(BuUer, 1933).<br />
The distinction between the Ustilaginaceae and the Tilletiaceae rests chiefly<br />
on the segmentation or branching of the promycelium, and ori. the position of<br />
sporidia. In the Ustilaginaceae the promycelium segments often into four, and<br />
branches or sporidia arise both terminally and laterally. In the Tilletiaceae the<br />
apex of the promycelium develops a crown of branches of uniform length, which<br />
are abstricted in some species but in others remain attached and elongate to'<br />
form mycelium. Details of development are far from uniform even within a
BIOLOGY 21<br />
genus, and the manner of growth can sometimes be altered by Regulating the<br />
environment.<br />
It is now generally accepted that meiosis normally occurs in both families at<br />
the onset of germination, and that segments of the promycelium and the firstformed<br />
sporidia are haploid. The dicaryophytic condition arises by the fusion of<br />
either promycelial cells, sporidia, or hyphae derived from them. Cultural conditions<br />
affect conjugation, and the absence of fusions in any one species may only<br />
indicate that the right conditions have not been found. It is clear, however,<br />
that fusions occur more readily in some species than in others, and that even<br />
physiologic races differ in this res'pect.<br />
DEVELOPMENT OF SPOBIDIA ON THE HOST<br />
In many smut diseases the parasite disappears from view after the initial<br />
infection, and only becomes visible to the eye when sori have developed and<br />
chlamydospores are exposed. In a few species, all members of the Tilletiaceae,<br />
the parasitic mycehum emerges through the stomata or between the epidermal<br />
cells and develops sporidia, sometimes in such profusion that infected organs<br />
are powdery with spores.<br />
The first clear account of this so-called 'conidial stage' was given by Woronin<br />
(1882). Plants of Trientalis europaea infected by Tuburcinia trientalis produce,<br />
after the winter rest, shoots which are white on the lower surface. Woronin<br />
described the sporidiophores, which grow in tufts through the stomata ^nd<br />
between the cells, as non-septate, thin, and bent in such a way that the terminal<br />
sporidia lie horizontally. The sporidia are pyriform, 11-15 (j,, hyahne, with<br />
finely granular protoplasm or a small vacuole. They fall easily and a second<br />
sporidium is produced, but the method of discharge is unknown. If sown on the<br />
surface of a leaf, the germ-tube enters and in 12 to 20 days black flecks, the<br />
young sori, appear. Fusions between sporidia were not observed and the number<br />
of their nuclei is unknown.<br />
Kiihn (1883) germinated the spores of a parasite oi Primula, which he named<br />
Paipalopsis irmischiae, but gave no details as to size or mode of origin of the<br />
spores. Schroeter (1887), listing this as a doubtful member of the Ustilaginales,<br />
stated that the parasite passes through the flowering stem into the floral organs,<br />
forming white powdery spore masses which often fill the whole corolla tube.<br />
The spore, which ha^ a smooth, COIOUEIQSS epispore, is spherical (3-6 /a), and<br />
germinates to form a thin germ-tuKe, the tip of which again forms sporidia. It<br />
is not clear if these Sporidia are like the spores from the corolla tube. Wilson<br />
(1915), recording the fungus from Kent, referred to large numbers of small<br />
unicellular spores present as meal-like masses in the open flower, glueing the<br />
stamens together and partially filling the base of the corolla tube. Viable pollen<br />
was, also present, and Wilson suggested that insects carry spores with poUen to<br />
healthy flowers, but inoculation experiments were unsuccessful. Fusions between<br />
sporidia were observed and, after the passage of one nucleus through the<br />
connecting bridge, the binucleate sporidium developed one or more germ-tubes.<br />
It is thought that members of the genus Thecaphora also form sporidia on stamens<br />
of the host, but no good account of this behaviour has been published (see p. 81,<br />
and Brett, 1940).<br />
Sporidia develop freely on the foliage of plants attacked by some species of
22<br />
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Entyloma, and Winter (1881) suggested their connexion with the Ustilaginales.<br />
Schroeter (1887) described thread-hke sporidia preceding resting spores of<br />
Entyloma serotinum on Symphytum, and de Bary !(1884) recognized a conidial<br />
stage oi Entyloma ficariae. Marshall Ward (1887) described the development and<br />
germination of foliar sporidia of the same species on Ranunculus ficariae, and<br />
by infection experiments established their relationship to the Entyloma. He<br />
illustrated fully how the very deHcate, copiously branched, intercellular mycelium<br />
FIG. 1. Entyloma ficariae and E. calendnlae. Culture of E. ficariae (a), 20 hours on agar,<br />
derived from one allantoid sporidium, sliming off filiform sporidia. AUantoid sporidia of<br />
JB. ficariae (b) and E. calendulae from Calendula (c) and Dahlia (d) germinating on agar.<br />
Half-moon-shaped sporidia of E, calendulae from Calendula (e) and Dahlia (/) germinating<br />
on agar. g-j. Stages in clamp formation in mycelium of E. calendulae. The culture originated<br />
in one half-moon-shaped sporidium.<br />
in the leaf sends pencils of hyphae to the outside and produces uinumerable<br />
colourless sporidia from their free ends. He regarded as normal the club-shaped<br />
or long ovoid spores which are sHghtly curved and more pointed at the attachment<br />
end, and suggested that the long filiform spores are formed under the<br />
stimulus of excessive moisture (see Figs. 1 a and b, and 20 p). The sporidia<br />
germinated readily in water and produced, with or without fusion, more sporidia<br />
of the same type. Sown in dew on the living leaf, stronger germ-tubes, were<br />
formed and penetration of the leaf followed. A pallid, greenish-white spot developed<br />
on the infected area in from 13 to 19 days from sowing, during the experimental<br />
period of May to June. The task still remains of inoculating plants<br />
with single and paired monosporidial cultures and observing if chlamydospores<br />
develop.<br />
In subsequent years sporidial stages were recorded for several additional
BIOLOGY 23<br />
species of Entyloma, and some taxonomists made the presence and absence of<br />
sporidia a basis for the division of the genus into two groups (Plowright, 1889;<br />
CHnton, 1904). Two species, E. matricariae Trail and E. trailii Massee, both on<br />
Matricaria, were separated on the size of the foKar sporidia (Ciferri, 1928).<br />
While it is generally assumed that these sporidia carry the fungus from plant to<br />
plant, few experiments on this means of dispersal have been conducted (see<br />
p. 106).<br />
The discovery (BuUer & Vanterpool, 1925; Vanterpool, 1932; Buller, 1933)<br />
that the allantoid sporidia of Tilletia (Fig. 10/) are violently discharged from the<br />
stalk led Hanna (1938) to examine the sporidial stages of nine species o£ Entyloma<br />
and to grow some of them in culture. In five species, E. menispermi, E. australe,<br />
E. linariae, E. meliloti, and E. ficariae, Hanna found, on the host, sporidia of<br />
two types, filiform and allantoid (sickle-shaped), which corresponded with those<br />
figured by Marshall Ward. E. nymphaeae and E. lobeliae were associated only<br />
with allantoid sporidia, while in E. compositarum and E. polysporum no sporidia<br />
were discovered. The allantoid type, whether produced on the host or in<br />
culture, was shot off by the water-drop method, while the filiform type was not<br />
violently discharged but could be detached by a light touch. In form and size<br />
this type recalls the sporidia that develop on the promyceUum of some species.<br />
The allantoid sporidia of three species were stained and found to be 'for the most<br />
part uninucleate'. They varied in size, even in two cultures isolated from the<br />
same host (Hanna, 1938, Pig. 1 b and c).<br />
The allantoid sporidia oiE. ficariae and E. calendulae were studied by Stempel<br />
(1935), who grew them in culture, and obtained haploid chlamydospores (see<br />
p. 25). In E. calendulae Stempel found still another type which he described as<br />
half-moon-shaped. They were larger and wider than the allantoid sporidia and<br />
carried two nuclei. In culture they gave rise to clamp mycelium (Fig. 1 h) and,<br />
finally, to normal chlamydospores. These sporidia, which are discharged by the<br />
water-drop mechanism, have been found recently both in E. calendulae and its<br />
form dahliae (Sampson, unpubhshed data, see Fig. 1).<br />
Kaiser (1936), studying E. fergussoni on Myosotis palustris, found filiform<br />
sporidia (30-40 X1-5-2 ju) on the upper surface and ellipsoidal sporidia (15-20 X<br />
5-7 fj.) on the lower surface of the leaf. Both types were said to be binucleate.<br />
Plants of Symphytum, sprayed with a suspension of sporidia in water, gave<br />
positive results within ten to twenty-one days, and Kaiser concludes that sporidia<br />
provide an effective means of disseminating the smut of the Boraginaceae.<br />
Though not well known, it seems hkely that a few species of Doassansia<br />
resemble Entyloma in their habit of forming sporidia on the host. SetcheU (1892)<br />
described for D. martm»q^a?ia long, slender sporidia (30x1-5^) which germinated<br />
in situ to give small bunches of tangled hj^hae. In 1941 a leaf of Sagittaria<br />
attacked by Doassansia was found to be discharging allantoid sporidia like the<br />
haploid type found on Calendula (Sampson, unpublished data).<br />
The foliar sporidia of smuts have been confused at times with Hyphomycetes<br />
belonging to the genera Cylindrosporium and Bamularia. In Entyloma oenotherae<br />
on Oenothera lamarkiana the sporidia are described as cyUndrical with a rounded<br />
apex (9-17 x 3-3-5 /x) and are said to remain in short chains as in species of<br />
Ramularia (Marchal & Stemon, 1925). Ciferri (1928) also described a species of<br />
Entyloma which possessed a sporidial stage closely resembling a Ramularia, only
,24 THE BBITISH.SMUT FUNGI<br />
the presence of chlamydospores making possible the identification of the fungus<br />
as a smut. Von Hohnel (1924) proposed a new genus, Entylomella (= Cylindrosporum<br />
Sacc. (non Grev.) p.p.) for the imperfect forms of Entyloma and<br />
Doassansia, and Ciferri (1928) emended it to include those forms more nearly<br />
resembling Ramularia?- The characteristics of the proposed genus remain somewhat<br />
Hi-defined and more information is needed before it can be used for naming<br />
material from which resting spores are absent.<br />
GROWTH IN CtrLTtJEE<br />
The natural home of smuts is the living plant. All members of the group are<br />
parasites but they readily adopt the saprophytic life under artificial conditions.<br />
Many species wiU grow on synthetic media but agars containing plant materials<br />
have been more widely used. The richer media, such as those that contain malt<br />
extract or oatmeal, are most favourable for chlamydospore formatiori (Kniep,<br />
1921; Sartoris, 1924). A few experiments have been conducted to discover<br />
whether accessory growth substances are necessary to smuts living in culture.<br />
Blumer (1937) and Schopfer (1937), using a synthetic medium including a<br />
carbohydrate, found that commercial saponin, which contains the growth factor,<br />
aneurin, had a marked stimulatory effect on Vstilago violacea but other species,<br />
such as U. maydis, U. nuda, U. hordei, and U. bullata,. were discovered to be<br />
auxo-autotrophic (Schopfer & Blumer, 1938). Itzerott (1938) found, however,<br />
that the growth of V. maydis benefited by the addition of an extract of the<br />
coleoptiles of young maize plants to a synthetic medium containing dextrose.<br />
Aneurin hastened the development of basidia and mycehum in Tilletia caries<br />
but did not influence the .earlier phases of germination (Hulea, 1947).<br />
In cultures of Vstilago profuse budding within the medium is more common<br />
than sporulation above the surface. In certain species, such as U. maydis, some<br />
hues are wholly sporidial, producing a glabrous surface, while others develop<br />
aerial mycelium (see p. 31). MyceHal lines sometimes give rise to branched<br />
chains of small, oval, hyahne sporidia and produce a colony with a white<br />
powdery surface (Stakman et al., 1929; Hanna, 1929). Aerial sporidia of a catenulate<br />
type have been found also in cultures of U. hypodytes (Boss, 1927; Kolk,<br />
1943), Doassansiopsis horiana (Nisikado & Matsumoto, 1936), and Tolyposporium<br />
filiferum (Kamat, 1933). In the last-named species, under relatively<br />
dry conditions, clusters of longer sporidia (8-24 p) developed on short, pointed<br />
branches (Kamat, 1933).<br />
Allantoid and half-moon-shaped sporidia are discharged with a droplet oi<br />
water from the apices of short hyphae growing erect from the surface of the<br />
medium in cultures of some members of the TUletiaceae. It seems probable that<br />
they are peculiar to this family (see pp. 83 et seq.).<br />
The study of a smut in culture is often complicated, not only by the existence<br />
of physiologic races, but also by heterothallism and the segregation of<br />
gametophytic characters. A complete picture of the saprophytic behaviour of<br />
even a physiologic race should embrace the growth of the dicaryophyte as well<br />
as that of its component haplonts. Much of the early work with smuts was<br />
carried out with cultures derived from a single chlamydospore or mass isolation.<br />
It seems, however, that the ideal is more difficult to attain in some species than<br />
^ See S. J. Hughes, Trans. Brit, mycol. Soc, xxxii, p. 55, 1949.
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BIOLOGY 25<br />
in others. Dickinson (1927), working with the covered smuts of oats and barley,<br />
found that dicaryophytic mycelium, produced on ag*r by the fusion of appropriate<br />
haplonts, failed to form a stable growth but reverted to the haploid<br />
condition. Such a culture would be, at least for a time, a mixture of two biotypes,<br />
but the suppression of one of them or its loss in transfer might reduce it to<br />
the state of a monosporidial culture. From other evidence it seems that the<br />
haplonts derived from a single chlamydospore may produce, in culture, a composite<br />
growth effect with distinctive characteristics, which wiU persist through<br />
a number of sub-cultures. A monospore culture usuttUy differs from the component<br />
monosporidial cultures, because chlamydospores are often heterozygous<br />
for cultural characters, but one collection (Lll) of Ustilago avenae showed no<br />
such segregation, the four haplonts derived from a siiigle spore were uniform in<br />
appearance and closely resembled all monospore cultiires of this race (Sampson<br />
& Western, 1938).<br />
Dicaryophytic mycelium is not always unstable cm culture media. Thren<br />
(1937) succeeded, by the use of a low temperature, in separating the haplonts of<br />
U. ntida. He grew them singly or in pairs and compared their growth with that<br />
derived from a single chlamydospore. Dicaryophytic hyphae were wider, their<br />
growth was stronger, and the resulting colony of a dicaryont had a smooth,<br />
homogeneous appearance and lacked the radial corrugations which characterized<br />
both plus and minus haplonts. In exceptional cases dicaryont colonies<br />
developed sectors of monocaryotic mycehum. In flU examples tested these<br />
sectors represented the minus haplonts, which could be recognized by their<br />
weaker growth and by their long radial folds. * \<br />
Normally in V. nuda stable dicaryophytic growth is maiatained in culture by<br />
a regular method of cell division followed by the fusion of haploid cells (diagram<br />
in Thren, 1941, p. 482). The forms of this smut on wheat and barley are not<br />
identical in their mode of growth (Thren, 1941).<br />
Stable dicaryophjrtic growth can also be obtained in species of Entyloma,<br />
which produce binucleate, half-moon-shaped sporidia on the host (p. 22). These<br />
germinate to give clamp mycelium, which spreads rather quickly over the agar,<br />
produces abundant sporidia above the surface, and a niass of submerged chlamydospores.<br />
Stempell (1935) found that some of these chlamydospores from<br />
cultures of E. calendulae germinated normally, forming a promycelium with<br />
terminal sporidia. Others, of later origin, developed a germ-tube which terminated<br />
in another chlamydospore'or directly gave rise to clamp mycelium.<br />
Cytological evidence indicated that caryogamy had failed in the abnormal<br />
spores. Cultures of E. jicariae and E. calendulae, originating from the smaller<br />
uninucleate sporidia, consisted of thinner mycelium without clamps. They<br />
developed chlamydospores, but these only formed ordinary mycelium on germination<br />
and were assumed to be haploid. Only a study of their origin, cytology,<br />
and mode of germination can decide whether artificially produced chlamydospores<br />
are haploid or diploid. In outward appearance, except possibly in degree<br />
of pigmentation, they resemble those found on the host. Sartoris (1924)<br />
obtamed, in a culture of Ustilago heuffleri from the dogtooth violet, uninucleate<br />
chlamydospores which had their origin in a binucleate cell. They germinated to<br />
give a four-celled promycelium with lateral sporidia and appeared to correspond<br />
in every way with natural spores formed on the living host. D. T. Wang (1984)
26 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
observed caryogamy in artificially produced chlamydospores of oat and barley<br />
smuts but did not germinate them. Fleroff (1923), 'w^orking with two races of<br />
U. avenae, found that one developed haploid chlamycjospores in culture, while<br />
the other gave rise to spores which seemed to correspond exactly with those<br />
found naturally. Records of artificially developed chla,mydospores, made usually<br />
without reference to their nuclear content or subsequent behaviour, are numerous.<br />
They have been found in the following species: Tilletia caries (Brefeld,<br />
1883; Sartoris, 1924; BuUer, 1933), Ustilago maydis (Grass, 1902; Sartoris,<br />
1924), U. nuda (Sartoris, 1924; Schaffnit, 1926; Rodenhiser, 1926, 1928),<br />
U. hordei (Sartoris, 1924; Rump, 1926), Urocystis anemones (Kniep, 1921),<br />
Sphacelotheca reiliana (Potter, 1914), Ustilago crameri (C. S. Wang, 1938).<br />
Yen (1937) in his study of the Chinese smuts found chlamydospores in cultures<br />
6f eight species. In some species nuclear fusion was observed during their<br />
development, but on germination all formed long branched mycelium without<br />
characteristic sporidia.<br />
With the discovery of the appropriate technique it seems likely that more<br />
species of smut could be induced to complete the life-cycle in culture. The production<br />
of artificial chlamydospores has not yet been employed for the practical<br />
purpose of getting large quantities of inoculum or for genetical studies. WhUe<br />
geneticists have of necessity made use of media for the study of gametophytic<br />
characters, they have found the host a more profitable matrix for the production<br />
of chlamydospores. It is significant, however, that a race of U. striiformis from<br />
Poa pratensis readily forms, on potato dextrose agar, chlamydospores which<br />
germinate normally and can be used successfully to inoculate the host (Leach,<br />
Lowther, & Ryan, 1946). It seems probable that this race of stripe smut is<br />
homothaUic. It is so far unique in producing diploid (syncaryotic) vegetative<br />
mycelium on agar and has no true dicaryophase (Leach & Ryan, 1946).
CYTOLOGY<br />
THE discovery of nuclei in smuts was delayed by their small size, which also<br />
accounts for our incomplete picture of their division and behaviour in the lifecycle.<br />
In many published figures the nuclei are little more than black dots, and<br />
the magnification is often omitted. ^Estimating from Rawitscher's plates,<br />
which are among the best, it seems that the resting nucleus in the ripe spore of<br />
Tilletia caries is about 3 X 5 /i in diameter. After 47 hours in water, when in<br />
preparation for division, the size increases to 5 X 7 /i. Nuclei passing out into the<br />
promyceUum are considerably smaller, 1-2 jit only, and this may be taken as the<br />
approximate size of haploid nuclei, up to the moment of fusion in the ripe resting<br />
spore (Rawitscher, 1922).<br />
The discovery of this fusion was due to the work of Dangeard (1893, 1894 b)<br />
who studied sporogenesis and observed the change from the binucleate to the<br />
uninucleate condition in seven species of smuts. Speaking of Doassansia<br />
alismatis Dangeard describes the nucleus of the ripe spore as ' nucleole, charge<br />
de chromatine et reconvert d'une membrane nucleaire, a peine observe-t-on<br />
quelques fins trabecules de protoplasma qui rayonnent vers la parol; tout le reste<br />
est forme d'une substance oleagineuse qui donne aux oospores vivantes leur<br />
aspect blanc et refringent'. Some of the figures in Dangeard's paper suggest<br />
dividing nuclei. Harper (1899), employing the triple stain, described in the<br />
phraseology of his day the resting nucleus in a promyceHum of Ustilago<br />
scabiosae as showing 'a sharply differeritiated, blue stained chromatin net Ijring<br />
in a clear nuclear sap, a red stained nucleole and a surrounding membrane'. He<br />
was the first to describe nuclear division in a smut. 'The equatorial plate stage<br />
is very distinct and shows a sharply pointed bipolar spindle, whose fibres end in<br />
deep staining granules at the poles. No polar radiations at this stage have been<br />
observed. The chromosomes are rather densely massed at the equator and are<br />
probably eight or ten in number.' The figure of U. scabiosae, to which reference is<br />
made, might be interpreted as an early anaphase showing the separation of<br />
three bivalents. Two drawings of nuclear division in sporidia of U. violacea show<br />
chromosomes arranged on a spindle, but again the number cannot be exactly<br />
stated. Harper's work indicated that the nuclei of the smut fungi divide' in a<br />
manner similar to those of the higher plants, and showed also that the copulation<br />
of sporidia was not immediately followed by the fusion of their nuclei.<br />
Rawitscher (1912, 1914) figured resting nuclei in his papers on the origin of<br />
the binucleate condition in some cereal smuts, and in later work (1922) dividing<br />
nuclei with intranuclear spindles and chromosomes. He states that in a ripe<br />
uninucleate spore of Tilletia caries the nucleus lies near the wall and in it one dr<br />
perhaps two nuclear bodies can be recognized. After 40 hours in water a muchenlarged<br />
nucleus is seen in a condition similar to synapsis. The content is very<br />
refractive and, in addition to the globular large nucleolus, a smaller one may be<br />
present. The chromatin is found in one, sometimes in two nets at the wall of the<br />
nucleus (Figs. 2 and 3). Spores fixed some hours later showed the prophase<br />
(spireme threads), and in some nuclei four stainable bodies could be recognized.<br />
In material fixed after 46 hours some spores already contained four nuclei, but<br />
stages of nuclear division are rare. Fig. 7, which shows a nucleus with two
28 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
large stainable bodies in addition to the nucleolus, may represent diakinesis.<br />
The intranuclear spindle is so small and narrow that in many cases the number<br />
of chromosomes cannot be accurately determined. jIt is possible that the diploid<br />
number is four. Nuclear divisions continue in the spore until ten to sixteen<br />
nuclei are present and these finally pass out into the promyceUum and so into<br />
the sporidia. Helton (1935) discovered that the distribution of nuclei between<br />
spore and promycelium diifers in two races of T. caries. In Cintractia montagnei<br />
the diploid nucleus leaves the spore and meiosis occurs in the promycehum.<br />
Some figures of dividing nuclei in vegetative cells and in promyceHa of<br />
Ustilago avenae, U. maydis, and Tilletia caries were given by Kharbush (1927,<br />
1928). The two relatively large chromosomes, seen on the spindle of the first<br />
division in the promycelium, were accepted as bivalents, those seen in later<br />
divisions and in cells of the parasitic mycelium as monovalents, and two is suggested<br />
as the haploid number in smuts. D. T. Wang (1932, 1934) confirmed this<br />
in the following species: U. nuda, U. hordei, U. violacea, U. longissima, Sphacelotheca<br />
sorghi, S. cruenta, and Tilletia caries. In her experiments spores were<br />
germinated at 17° to 20° C. except that a lower temperature was used for<br />
T. caries. Reduction occurred always at the first division which took place either<br />
in the chlamydospore or in the promycelium. That segregation is not restricted<br />
to the first and second divisions of the diploid nucleus, but may even occur in the<br />
second or third division, is suggested by some genetical data (see p. 36).<br />
Cytological evidence on this point is meagre, but C. S. Wang (1943), working with<br />
Ustilago crameri {n = 2) observed four chromosomes at meiosis in promycelia,which<br />
already contained two or four nuclei, and accepts this as evidence that<br />
reduction had not been completed in the first division of the zygote. Hiittig<br />
(1933) suggests that external factors can influence the moment of chromosome<br />
reduction in some smuts. Yen (1937) has also studied nuclear division in the<br />
smuts and agrees with previous workers that Tilletia caries has a haploid number<br />
of two. His conclusions (p. 292) regarding the chromosome number in species of<br />
Ustilago are somewhat contradictory. Leach & Ryan (1946) failed to distinguish<br />
chromosomes in a form of U. striiformis which they believe to be homothaUic.<br />
They estimate that nuclei in the young germ-tube measure 2-3 /x.<br />
The vacuome and the chondriome of smuts have been studied by Moreau<br />
(1914), D. T. Wang (1934), and Yen (1937). In the chlamydospore the vacuome<br />
consists of numerous small vacuoles with dense contents which take up water<br />
and unite to form larger vacuoles, prior to germination. When growth begins,<br />
they fragment and pass into the promycelium, and as sporidia are formed,<br />
minute vacuoles pass into them (D. T. Wang, 1934). Yen (1937), using vital stains,<br />
demonstrated the presence of metachromatic granules which showed Brownian<br />
movement in the young vacuoles near the tips of growing hyphae. The chondriome<br />
was represented in material stained with aniline fuchsin and light green,<br />
by long, wavy, sometimes branched chondriosonies (chondrioconts) running<br />
parallel with the long axis of the ceU. They were particularly abundant in the<br />
cells destined to form spores. D. T. Wang (1934) found that the chondriosomes<br />
had the form of spherical corpuscles in all the species studied except U. hordei<br />
where some were filamentous. According to Moreau (1914), who studied the<br />
chondriome (cytome) in Entyloma ficariae, the chondriosomes were chiefly filamentous<br />
in the mycelium, corpuscular in the spore.
GENETICS<br />
INCOMPATIBILITY<br />
KNIEP'S discovery (1919) of heterothallism in smuts initiated the successful<br />
application of modern genetical principles to the study of this group. It is now<br />
an. accepted fact that new races of smuts can be produced by hybridization,<br />
though it is not yet clear how often this happens in nature or how it may affect<br />
breediag for resistance in the host.<br />
The majority of species so far studied are heterothallic (Kniep, 1928) and, in<br />
some of them, fusion of sporidia is governed by a single pair of allelomorphs. In<br />
these species, if large numbers of monosporidial lines are tested for compatibility<br />
(see p. 42), they fall into two equal groups. Any member of group A wiU fuse<br />
with any member of group B but the hnes within a group are incompatible. As<br />
Dickinson (1928, 1931) showed, segregation for compatibiUty factors can take<br />
place at either the first or second division of the diploid nucleus during the<br />
growth of the promycelium. If it occurs at the first division, the arrangement<br />
of sporidia will be either A, A, B, B, or B, B, A, A; if, at the second division, four<br />
types of distribution are possible, A, B, A, B; B, A, B, A; A, B, B, A; and<br />
B, A, A, B. A gametes can only be distinguished from B by reference to a<br />
culture arbitrarily taken as the standard. The nuclei carrying A or B factors<br />
show no polarity, A occurring in the apical segment of the promycelium as often<br />
as B. This type of segregation (2:2) was first observed by Kniep (1919) in<br />
Ustilago violacea and later found in U. hordei from oats and barley, U. avenue<br />
from oats, U. avenae (medians) from barley (Dickinson, 1927,1928,1931;Holton,<br />
1931 b, 1932; Allison, 1937; Bever, 1945), and U. striiformis from Elymus<br />
glaucus (Fischer, 1940).<br />
Segregation of incompatibility factors is not so simple in all species, and<br />
fusion is probably governed in some by a series of multiple allelomorphs. Thus<br />
in U. maydis, while the sporidia of one chlamydospore may fall into two equal<br />
groups, in others segregation ratios may be 4:0;3:1;1:1:2; or 1:1:1:1 (Christensen<br />
in Stakman et al., 1929, 1931; Hanna, 1929; Bauch, 1932 a). Work with<br />
V. maydis is complicated by the fact that a few exceptional monosporidial lines<br />
infect maize and produce galls (Eddins, 1929 a; Sleumer, 1932). Three out of<br />
31 lines intensively studied by ChristeHsen (in Stakman et al., 1929) were thus<br />
'solo-pathogenic', but Schmitt (1940) met this peculiarity in only three among<br />
4,000 monosporidial Unes examined. Unusually large numbers of solo-pathogenic<br />
lines were derived from the promycelia of crosses between Unes carrying<br />
factors for lysis (Chilton, 1940,1943). It is thought that irregular meiosis, rather<br />
than mutation, accounts for the origin and behaviour of solo-pathogenic hnes,<br />
since segregation for incompatibility factors does occur in subsequent generations.<br />
Chrisxiensen (1931) obtained three successive crops of chlamydospores in<br />
which reduction for incompatibiUty failed. In solo-pathogenic lines segregation<br />
for other factors such as colour and pathogenicity may take place normally and<br />
mutation is not unknown. Cytological evidence for the abnormal behaviour of<br />
these lines is lacking.<br />
Multiple factors for incompatibility h4ve been found also in Sphaceloiheca<br />
reiliana (Hanna, 1929); S. sorghi (Rodenhiser, 1932, 1934; Isenbeek, 1935;
30 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Tyler, 1938); S. cruenta (Rodenhiser, 1932, 1934); Ustilago longissima (Bauch,<br />
1931, 1932 b; Kammerling, 1929); Sphacelotheca schweinfurthiana (Bauch,<br />
1932 c); Tilktia caries and T.foeiida (Flor, 1932 a, 1933). The number of factors,<br />
not yet known with certainty in any species, usually increases when a vddev<br />
range of material is examined (Becker, 1936). In Ustilago maydis, a muchstudied<br />
species, at least 63 factors governing compatibiHty have been detected.<br />
Factors governing the fusion of gametes are not usually linked with cultural<br />
or pathogenicity factors (Christensen, in Stakman et al., 1929; Stakman et al.,<br />
1929; Dickinson, 1931; Bauch, 1922, 1927; Alhson, 1937; Rodenhiser, 1934;<br />
Flor, 1933). Kziiep (1919) found, however, a physiological difference between<br />
the A and B sporidia of Ustilago violacea (from Dianthus deltoides), one type<br />
failing on malt agar, while the other flourished on that medium. Thren (1937)<br />
found that haplonts of U. nuda, designated 'plus', could be distinguished from<br />
'minus' haplonts by their stronger growth on malt agar, while on potato agar<br />
the 'plus' type failed to grow.<br />
The first experiments on compatibility stopped at the initial fusion of sporidia,<br />
but subsequent work, and especially that on interspecific crosses, suggests that<br />
fusion is not by itself proof of complete compatibility, which alone leads to<br />
successful invasion of the host and the maturation of chlamydospores. Fischer<br />
(1940 a) found, on the evidence of sporidial fusions, a high degree of compatibility<br />
between Ustilago striiformis from Elymus glaucus and Ustilago bullata from several<br />
hosts. In some of the successfully paired lines infection hyphae developed in<br />
great numbers, while in others growth ceased after the fusion of sporidia.<br />
Cultures of U. striiformis, in the same compatibiUty group, always behaved in<br />
the same way when paired with different lines of U. bullata. Fischer accepts<br />
these two types of behaviour as comparable to those discovered by Bauch<br />
(1932 c) in his intraspecific matings of Sphacelotheca schweinfurthiana. Chlamydospores<br />
of the hybrid Ustilago striiformis x U. bullata have not yet been obtained,<br />
but it is not unlikely they would develop on appropriate hosts from lines<br />
that gave the infection hyphae.<br />
Races of Ustilago avenue from oats and tall oat grass have no common host.<br />
Their sporidia are compatible and suitable combinations of monosporidial lines,<br />
one from each race, produced what appeared to be hybrid chlamydospores on<br />
wild oats (presumably Avenafatua). Among 16 compatible inter-racial matings<br />
used to inoculate wild oats, tall oat grass, and Anthony oats {Avena sativa), four<br />
produced smut on the first host and none on the last two. Chlamydospores only<br />
developed from the paired lines in which fusion was followed by the growth of<br />
infection hyphae. These two types of compatibility were not evident in matings<br />
within the race from tall oat grass, but they were met again when this was crossed<br />
with races of U. hordei from oats and barley. When Fj chlamydospores from<br />
wild oats were sown on the three hosts named above, smut was produced on<br />
Anthony oats showing that segregation for pathogenicity had occurred. The<br />
mode of inheritance of the two types of compatibihty is not yet known (Holton<br />
& Fischer, 1941).<br />
THE GAMETOPHYTE IN CULTTJBE<br />
Monosporidial colonies of a single species grown on a flat agar surface have<br />
been found to differ in colour, topography, margin, consistency, rate of gro^vth,
GENETICS • 31<br />
direction of growth, tendency to sector, response to temperature, and response<br />
to hydrogen-ion concentration in the medium. Few, if any, of these characters<br />
are linked, and a species hke Ustilago maydis comprises many hundreds of<br />
different cultural types (Stakman et al., 1929; Christensen & Rodenhiser, 1940).<br />
Dickinson (1931) studied the segregation in covered smut of oats, of wide or<br />
narrow margin, brown, yellow, or cream colour, corrugated or depressed centre,<br />
dry or moist surface, and rate of growth at pH 5-5. Apart from size of margin,<br />
which gave a 2:2 ratio, the results suggested that segregation was governed by<br />
multiple factors. This holds also in other species, and cultural characters are<br />
not usually Unked either with incompatibility or pathogenicity. They are as a<br />
rule no guide to the identification of physiologic races (Becker, 1936; Utter,<br />
1938), nor can they be used to separate closely related species (Kienholz &<br />
Heald, 1930).<br />
To be of permanent value, descriptions of growth in culture should be supplemented<br />
by photographs, coloured if possible. Plates illustrating some cultural<br />
types have been published for the following species: Ustilago maydis (Stakman<br />
et al., 1929; Christensen, 1931), U. avenae and U. hordei (kolleri) from oats<br />
(Dickinson, 1931; Western, 1936; Holton, 1931 b, 1932), U. hordei from barley<br />
(AUison,1937), U. striiformis (Fischer, 1940a), Sphacelotheca sorghi (Rodenhiser,<br />
1932, 1934; Tyler, 1938), Sorosporium syntherismae and Sphacelotheca destruens<br />
(Martin, 1943), Tilletia caries (Kienholz & Heald, 1930).<br />
The fuUest account of biotypes in any one species is that given by Stakman<br />
et al. (1929) in their study of mutation in U. maydis. Another gametophytic<br />
character which has received some study is the degree of sporulation in culture.<br />
Some monosporidial lines of U. maydis produce abundant sporidia, some are<br />
entirely mycelial, while others are intermediate (Hanna, 1929; Christensen in<br />
Stakman el al., 1929, 1931; Stakman ei al., 1929). Stakman (1936) reported on<br />
the clear-cut segregation of these growth types. Kemkamp (1939), testing such<br />
lines on a wide range of media, found that strictly sporidial cultures could not<br />
be induced to form mycelium under any conditions tested. Some intermediates<br />
produced more sporidia with a higher concentration of sugars and other changes<br />
in the environment. From a cross between two extreme hnes, segregation ratios<br />
of 4:0, 3:1,2:2, and 1:2:1, were obtained, indicating that more than two factors<br />
govern the inheritance of sporidial and mycelial types. Further studies (Kemkamp,<br />
1942) emphasized the stabiUty of strictly sporidial and strictly mycelial<br />
lines but both types are rare, virtually all lines of U. maydis being intermediate.<br />
Intermediates can be shifted to extreme mycelial or extreme sporidial by alterations<br />
in the environment, but the changes are phenotypic and reversible. The<br />
addition of poisons and toxic dyes, reduction of oxygen and nutrients, especially<br />
dextrose, stimulated the growth of myceUum. Sectors of myceUum, which<br />
sometimes developed in intermediate lines, proved in most examples to be<br />
phenotypic, not genie, changes. Unsuccessful attempts to cross strictly sporidial<br />
lines revealed the fact that these are incapable of forming myceUum even in the<br />
host, but when mated with lines capable of forming hyphae the resulting<br />
dicaryophytes were pathogenic.<br />
Popp & Hanna (1935), working with the oat race of U. hordei, germinated<br />
hybrid chlamydospores from the following combinations of cultural types,<br />
sporidial X sporidial, hyphal X hyphal, sporidial X hyphal, and studied the
34 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
with small chlamydospores and short, ovoid smut balls, while brown peridia were<br />
associated with larger spores and slender, more elongated sori.<br />
GEBMINATION OF HYBRID SPQEES<br />
Kniep (1926), in his pioneer work on heterdthallism, paired appropriate<br />
sporidial lines from several species of Ustilago. Fusions readily occurred among<br />
smuts with smooth or echinulate spores, but failed if these species were mated<br />
with reticulate spored species. Whether the cell fusions were followed by<br />
nuclear fusions in these so-called interspecific crosses was not then determined,<br />
but true hybridization in the UstQaginales has been established since.<br />
Several workers have examined hybrid material of the smuts for evidence of<br />
heterosis, sterility, or other phenomena commonly revealed by out-crossing.<br />
Goldschmidt (1928) found in crosses between certain physiologic races of U.<br />
violacea that promycelia of all hybrids were considerably greater than those of<br />
the parents. The method of growth was often irregular, the promycelium from<br />
some hybrids consisting of only one cell. Vaheeduddin (1936 a, 1936 b) noted<br />
the increased size of promycelia and sporidia in the interspecific hybrid Sphacelotheca<br />
cruentaxS. reiliana and accepts it as a sign of heterosis.<br />
Both the number and viability of sporidia may be reduced in crosses. Primary<br />
sporidia isolated from promycelia of hybrid chlamydospores from Ustilago<br />
avenaex U. hordei from oats would rarely develop in culture (Holton, 1931 b).<br />
Martin (1943) recorded a viability of less than 10 per cent, in sporidia derived<br />
from the hybrid Sorosporium syntherismaexSphacelotheca destruens. Peg-like<br />
branches, which did not develop either into sporidia or hyphae, were characteristic<br />
of promyceHa in the interspecific cross S. sorghi x S. cruenta (Rodenhiser,<br />
1934). Sporidia developed sparsely in 8. sorghixS. reiliana, many promyceUa<br />
of the hybrid producing hyphal branches in place of sporidia (Tyler & Shumway,<br />
1935). Some intraspecific crosses of Ustilago maydis behaved in a similar manner<br />
(Christensen, 1931). In others the promyceHa were gnarled and distorted and<br />
either autolysed before sporidia developed or gave a few sporidia in an irregular<br />
manner. Chilton (1943) could find no evidence that lysis in U. maydis was<br />
caused by an infectious agent and he believes that the explanation for this<br />
behaviour is genetical. The segregation of one or more factors for lysis was<br />
demonstrated by crossing appropriate haploid lines (Chilton, 1938, 1943). Lysis<br />
in certain inbred lines of Sphacelotheca sorghi persisted through two chlamydospore<br />
generations (Laskaris, 1939, 1941). In both species the tendency to<br />
germinate abnormally was greater in chlamydospores of unusually large size.<br />
Another example of lysis, described by Fischer (1940 c) as a haplo-lethal<br />
deficiency, was found in Ustilago bullata. In certain collections half the monosporidial<br />
isolates ceased growth after budding off a few sporidia and finally disintegrated;<br />
the others continued to bud and produced a normal saprophytic<br />
growth on potato dextrose agar. It is not stated if other media were tried (see<br />
p. 30). By mating with monosporidial lines of U. hordei and U. avenae Fischer<br />
showed that the surviving Unes of U. bullata belonged to one compatibility<br />
group. Since infection of the host could be, induced by chlamydospores from<br />
these collections of U. bullata, it is concluded that gametes carrying the haplolethal<br />
deficiency factor were functional in nature, this factor operating only<br />
against saprophytic growth. This was confirmed by finding infection hyphae
GENETICS 35<br />
when a few sporidia from lethal and non-lethal lines were mixed on plain agar<br />
(see Bauch test, p. 42). In a single collection of V. bullata from Festuca idahoensis,<br />
lysis again occurred in half the isolates, but in this example some of the<br />
surviving lines were compatible, indicating that the lethal factors were not linked<br />
with those governing fusion as in the other four collections.<br />
PATHOGENICITY '<br />
The multiplicity of physiologic races within a species is eloquent of the complexity<br />
of the problem of the inheritance of pathogenicity. That an individual<br />
chlamydospore from a field collection of U. avenae may be heterozygous for<br />
pathogenicity factors was clearly shown by Mcolaisen (1934), who infected<br />
a few selected varieties of oats with paired sporidial lines. To quote one<br />
example, two sporidial matings from chlamydospore 43/31 produced 100 per<br />
cent, smut on the variety Lischower, while two other matings from the same<br />
spore gave negative results on this variety (Nicolaisen, 1934, Table 4). In an<br />
extensive series of cross-infection experiments conducted with monosporidial<br />
lines Nicolaisen showed that the factor or factors for pathogenicity carried by<br />
one monosporidial line might be dominant, recessive, or intermediate according<br />
to the variety of the host. By crossing, segregates can be obtained which differ<br />
in virulence from both parents (Nicolaisen, 1934, 1935; Holton, 1936 a; Bever,<br />
1939).<br />
Allison (1937) obtained segregation for pathogenicity in the Fj of U. hordei x<br />
U. avenae (medians) and found that some segregates possessed increased virulence<br />
on certain barley varieties. The factors for pathogenicity segregate<br />
independently from those governing compatibility, head, type, and spore wall.<br />
Christensen (in Stakman et al., 1929) found multiple factors for pathogenicity<br />
in U. maydis and obtained evidence that they act independently of those governing<br />
fusion. As in the oat. smuts, a monosporidial Hne may be strongly pathogenic<br />
when in combination with some compatible lines and weakly pathogenic<br />
with others.<br />
Maize inoculated with a mixture of haploids gave a lower degree of infection<br />
than maize inoculated with single pairs of haploid lines (Kemkamp & Martin,<br />
1941). Some varieties of wheat were resistant to mixed inocula, though this<br />
included some highly virulent lines of bunt (Holton & Heald, 1936; Rodenhiser<br />
& Quisenberry, 1938). No satisfactory explanation of these results is available.<br />
MUTATION<br />
It is essential in the application of Mendelial principles to an unexplored<br />
group of organisms to examine the purity of their gametes. Genetical data on<br />
smuts, collected since the discovery of heterothallism (Kniep, 1919), rests on the<br />
assumption that meiosis occurs in the promycelium and that the sporidia<br />
budded from it are uninucleate, haploid cells. They function as gametes but<br />
differ from many other sexual cells in that they can be multiplied almost<br />
indefinitely. Theoretically, uniformity is to be expected in the monosporidial<br />
cultures derived from single promycelial cell and the colonies should remain<br />
stable. Variations, at least in some species, are certainly not rare, and it is pertinent<br />
to ask if all have the same origin. Variants in smuts are sudden, abrupt
36 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
changes which persist once they have arisen. It is conceivable that they might<br />
result from (1) chromosome aberration, (2) heterocaryosis, (3) delayed segregation,<br />
or (4) mutation. Stakman has discussed their liature in connexion with the<br />
general problem of variation in fungi (Stakman et al., 1929; Stakman, 1936).<br />
Too little is known of normal cell division, in the smuts to justify speculation<br />
on possible irregularities in chromosome behaviour. 'Speaking of heterocaryosis,<br />
Stakman (1936) concludes that this might possibly explain the origin of some<br />
variants in cultures of smuts. It is known, for example, in U. maydis, that the<br />
promyeehum occasionally septates before meiosis. One cell might therefore<br />
contain two genetically different haploid nuclei either of which may enter the<br />
first successively produced sporidium. The second sporidium would then differ<br />
from the first abstricted from a single promyceUal cell. Heterocaryosis cannot,<br />
however, adequately explain the origin of sector variants which appear in great<br />
multitude and diversity in some cultures of this and other species (Stakman,<br />
1936; Tyler, 1938).<br />
Dickinson (1931) considered that his results with the oat race of U. hordei<br />
were best explained by supposing that segregation had been extended to the<br />
third and later divisions of the chlamydospore nucleus. Cultures derived in<br />
succession from the same promycelial cell, though alike in compatibihty, sometimes<br />
differed widely in colour, topography, or other aspects of growth in culture.<br />
More variants were obtained on media relatively rich in nitrogenous compounds.<br />
Holton (1932), also working with the oat smuts, again found distinct biotypes in<br />
the cultures he obtained by isolating a number of sporidia from the same segment<br />
of the promycelium and accepted the variants as evidence of delayed segregation,<br />
but Western (1936 a) found no evidence of this in-the races of oat smut<br />
he examined.<br />
If sectoring in smuts were the result of delayed segregation, it seems probable<br />
that this would work itself out in time, and that the number of sectors would<br />
decrease in cultures separated by many nuclear divisions from the first-formed<br />
sporidium, but this does not appear to happen (Stakman, 1936). The extensive<br />
and detailed work on U. maydis leads to the conclusion that meiosis is normally<br />
restricted to the germinating chlamydospore or the promycelium (Christonsen,<br />
1931; Stakman, 1936) and that sectoring in cultures is the result of mutation<br />
(Stakman et al., 1935).<br />
Some of the first records of sectoring in haploid lines of a smut were made by<br />
Bauch (1925) in U. bullata, but the fullest account of the variants that may result<br />
in any one species has been given by Stakman and his co-workers for U. maydis<br />
(Stakman et al., 1929). Some 200 monosporidial fines isolated and studied in<br />
culture yielded thousands of mutants over a period of two years. Appearing as<br />
sectors on plate cultures, they often had a wedge or &n-shaped form, but might<br />
develop as irregular patches. The characters involved were rate of growth,<br />
direction of growth, surface, margin, lustre, pigmentation, consistency (whether<br />
sfimy, butyrous, viscid, brittle, powdery, membranous, or coriaceous), relative<br />
proportion of sporidia and myceUum, size and shape of sporidia, compatibiUty,<br />
pathogenicity, and tendency to mutate.<br />
A study of the constancy of some mutant types which arose as sectors from<br />
a single monosporidial line of U. maydis was made by Stakman, Tyler, & Hafstad<br />
(1933). During repeated transfers over a period of four to five years, 14 variant
GENETICS 37<br />
lines retained their distinctive features. Moreover, inoculations into maize made<br />
in 1932 with several pairs of compatible lines produced infection results similar<br />
to those obtained four years previously, showing that not only growth characters<br />
but also pathogenicity had remained constant.<br />
Characters that arise by mutation segregate after hybridization, like other<br />
characters in the smuts. This was specifically shown by the study of crosses<br />
involving an easily recognizable white mutant which had appeared as a sector<br />
in a brownish-tinged vinaceous line of U. maydis. Mated with compatible brown<br />
or black lines and inoculated into maize, chlamydospores were produced and<br />
germinated. In nearly every case some of the monosporidial colonies isolated<br />
were white like the white mutant. From all the chlamydospores examined 83<br />
white or nearly white segregates were isolated. An attempt was made to produce<br />
an albino race of the maize smut, 417 matings from 39 of the whitest lines being<br />
inoculated into maize. Large galls developed in which dicaryophytic mycehum<br />
was found, but no chlamydospores were present. Even mass inoculations, using<br />
a number of the hnes together, failed to yield spores. It seems that in the white<br />
lines factors for the fuU development of the zygote are missing (Stakman et al.,<br />
1943).<br />
The close study of variation in U. maydis, conducted for a period of years, led<br />
to the view that the tendency to mutate was due to the presence of genetic<br />
factors, that there was sometimes a clear-cut segregation for mutability and<br />
constancy, and that by suitable breeding the tendency towards mutabiUty or<br />
constancy could be increased. For experimental proof a cross was used which<br />
showed definite and relatively simple segregation for five pairs of characters:<br />
compatibility (plus and minus), brown and white, mycelial and sporidial, rough<br />
and smooth, constant and variable. Twenty-five monosporidial lines were<br />
isolated in succession from each of the four primary sporidia on the promycelium.<br />
All those derived from numbers 1 and 2 were alike and aU those from 3 and 4<br />
were ahke, showing that segregation was complete before the primary sporidia<br />
were cut off. In the colonies derived from sporidia 1 and 2 no sectoring occurred,<br />
whereas 360 variants appeared in the cultures derived from sporidia 3 and 4.<br />
Breeding was carried a step farther by appropriate matings, constant X constant,<br />
and variable X variable, among F2 lines. One constant x constant cross yielded<br />
all constant progeny, in others segregation for variability occurred. All F5 segregates<br />
from a series of variable X variable crosses were variable. An F5 hue was<br />
back-crossed to an F4 variable line and the 34 segregates were all highly variable.<br />
It is evident that in U. maydis mutabihty and constancy are due to genetic<br />
factors. An indefinite number of biotypes can be obtained by isolating mutants<br />
from sectors in mutable hnes and by crossing. In this work at least 5,000 distinct<br />
biotypes were studied, but this did not cover all the segregates and mutants that<br />
appeared (Stakman et al., 1943).<br />
As in other fungi, the rate of mutation is affected by the culture medium. In<br />
early experiments with U. maydis no mutants were observed on sugar media,<br />
or on sugar media with magnesium sulphate or phosphates. Only one appeared<br />
on plain water agar, a few on peptone dextrose agar, and a number on sugar<br />
media plus nitrates (Stakman et al., 1929). Schmitt (1940) grew 20 monosporidial<br />
lines in duplicate on 6 media. The smallest number of sectors (68)<br />
developed on Difco maize meal agar and the largest number (107) on Carter's
38 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
medium, which is relatively rich in dextrose and contains also peptone and<br />
nitrates. Stock cultures were grown on modified Czapek agar because on it the<br />
mutation rate was low while growth was reasonably good. A relatively low<br />
temperature (under 18° C.) is desirable since it keeps sectoring at a minimum.<br />
Ultra-violet radiation, X-rays, and short exposures to temperatures near the<br />
thermal death-point failed to increase the rate of mutation (Schmitt, 1940).<br />
X-radiation also failed to affect the mutation rate in monosporidial lines of<br />
V. hordei (Rodenhiser & Maxwell, 1941). In a constant diploid fine mutation<br />
was induced by the addition of certain chemicals, such as Hthium chloride, to the<br />
medium (Stakman et al., 1943). A constant haploid line frequently mutated on<br />
a medium containing arsenic (Petty, 1942).<br />
Another species prone to mutation in culture is Sphacelotheca sorghi (Ficke &<br />
Johnston, 1930; Rodenhiser, 1934; Isenbeck, 1935). The fullest study of<br />
variants, illustrated by photographs, was made by Tyler (1938). On malt agar<br />
and plain sugar media plus nutrient salts the mutation rate was higher than on<br />
potato dextrose, plain sugar, or peptone agar. Fourteen lines remained culturally<br />
constant on potato dextrose agar for over a year.<br />
Sectors affecting colour, topography, type of margin, and direction and rate<br />
of growth were isolated from Ustilago sphaerogena, U. crameri, U. neglecta,<br />
Sphacelotheca destruens, and Sorosporium syntherismae by Martin & Kemkamp<br />
(1941). In some isolates potato dextrose, in others malt agar, favoured mutation.
TECHNIQUE<br />
COLLECTION AND EXAMINATION OF HEBBABITJM MATERIAL<br />
MOST smuts make very satisfactory herbarium specimens, and material a<br />
hundred years old frequently yields as much information on macroscopic and<br />
microscopic examination as does a recent collection. It is, however, very necessary<br />
that collections for preservation should be made with care, and that attention<br />
should be paid to the conditions of storage.<br />
A specimen should be typical, adequate in amount, and, whenever possible,<br />
show both immature and mature sori. It should be accompanied by details of<br />
the locahty, date of coUeotion, and the name or names of the collector and the<br />
person making the identification. Particular care should be taken to ensure that<br />
the host plant is identified correctly, and it is a useful practice to include with the<br />
specimen material of the uninfected host when this would enable an identification<br />
to be subsequently confirmed or revised.<br />
Dried specimens of smuts are, in addition to the usual hazards, particularly<br />
liable to destruction by a pest of herbaria, Cartodera filiom. This small beetle<br />
feeds on the sori and deposits faeces consisting of columns of chlamydospores<br />
which, though Uttle changed in appearance, are usually dead (Vanderwalle,<br />
1932; Gordon, 1938). It is very important that material should be thoroughly<br />
dry and free from insects before being put into the collection or much valuable<br />
material may be spoilt. In some large herbaria it is a routine practice to fumigate<br />
all specimens with hydrocyanic acid gas before they are 'laid in'. For smaU<br />
collections, to sprinkle flake naphthalene in the folders is a worth-while precaution,<br />
and paradichlorbenzene keeps the herbarium beetle at bay. Both these<br />
chemicals must be often renewed as vaporization is rapid.<br />
When examining herbarium specimens, the gross structure and arrangement<br />
of the sori can be most easily determined by means of a low-power binocular<br />
microscope'and by making any necessary dissections with mounted needles. It<br />
is usually not necessary to soak the material in water or to treat it in any otherway.<br />
Spores for microscopical examination may be mounted in water, but a more<br />
satisfactory technique is to mount them in lactic acid or lactophenol. Addition<br />
of a stain is advantageous when examining sporidia but is usually not necessary<br />
for chlamydospores. If lactophenol is employed for mounting chlamydospores,<br />
supplementary mounts should be made in water, the lower refractive iadex of<br />
which sometimes makes it easier to observe the details of spore ornamentation.<br />
The reticulate chlamydospores of Tilletia decipiens, for example, appear to be<br />
25 per cent, larger in water than in lactophenol because the exospore is invisible<br />
in the latter medium.<br />
Very small differences in spore size are rarely of significance for delimiting<br />
species, and the measurement of large numbers of spores from one collection<br />
(which frequently means from one sorus or even from one preparation) is not<br />
advocated. The measurement of fewer spores from as many different collections<br />
as possible gives a much better idea of the spore size characteristic of a species.<br />
It is not possible in routine work to measure individual spores to an accuracy<br />
greater than the nearest 0-5 /x and no additional information is given by express-
40 THE BRITISH SMUT FTJNai<br />
ing the average spore size to several places of decimals. It was the practice when<br />
examining the large number of collections, on which the systematic part of this<br />
monograph is based, to measure ia each mount ten Ispores, the largest and the<br />
smallest seen in several fields and the remainder at random.<br />
HAEVESTING, STOBAGE, AND GERMINATION OF CHLAMYDOSFORES<br />
To obtain a good yield of viable chlamydospores, they must be allowed to<br />
reach full maturity on the living plant. Premature dispersal from exposed<br />
sori can be prevented by covering them with parchment bags like those used<br />
for the exclusion of pollen. Chlamydospores in dusty sori are separated from<br />
plant tissue by passing through a series of sieves from 20 to 60 mesh, or in submerged<br />
sori by macerating infected organs in water and straining through cheese<br />
cloth (Fischer & Holton, 1943). A high-speed blender is useful for macerating<br />
leaves with embedded sori hke those of stripe smut (Andrus, 1941; Kreitlow,<br />
1945).<br />
Dry, sieved spores of exceptionally long-lived smuts can retain their viability<br />
for years in loosely stoppered jars under ordinary laboratory conditions, but a<br />
temperature of 5°-10° C. is preferable, and care should be taken to protect<br />
them from the depredations of the herbarium beetle mentioned above.<br />
Many species of smut will germinate when the spores are ripe for dispersal,<br />
others are improved by drying indoors for a few days, while some require an<br />
after-ripening period of weeks or even months (see p. 18). This period can be<br />
shortened by treatments appropriate to the species. Thus incubation on moist<br />
filter-paper at 35° C. reduced the period from 197 to 30 days in Ustilago striiformis<br />
(Kreitlow, 1945). Soaking spores in water before putting them to germinate<br />
was effective for the dwarf bunt of wheat (Holton, 1943), and for the stripe<br />
smut of wheat and forage grasses (Noble, 1923-; Fischer & Holton, 1943).<br />
Spores need oxygen for germination (Platz, 1928) and are often better floating<br />
than submerged, but carbon dioxide in concentrations up to 15 per cent, may<br />
have a stimulatory effect (Platz, Durrell, & Howe, 1927). Germination may also<br />
be stimulated by adding fragments of fresh plant tissue to the water or by<br />
employing a medium of expressed sap from wheat seedlings at a concentration<br />
of 1 in 10,000 (Noble, 1924; Griffiths, 1924; Platz, DurreU, & Howe, 1927).<br />
73enzaldehyde, sahcylaldehyde, acetone, ether, chloroform, nitrogenous salts,<br />
and organic acids have been used to stimulate germination (Noble, 1923, 1924;<br />
Davis, 1924; Hahne, 1925; Rabien, 1927; Enomoto, 1934; Stakman, Cassell,<br />
& Moore, 1934).<br />
The rate and mode of germination are affected by temperature (see p. 19)<br />
and media. A moderate temperature (20°-22° C.) suits many species, but for<br />
some, such as Tilletia caries, a lower temperature (18° C.) gives better results,<br />
while a higher temperature (25°-30° C.) is preferable for a sub-tropical species<br />
like Ustilago maydis. Germination may be delayed and atypical at temperatures<br />
which are lower than the optimum for a particular species. The most suitable<br />
temperature for the germination of chlamydospores is not necessarily ideal for<br />
the infection of the host.<br />
Growth wiU often start on distilled water but may not proceed farther than<br />
the germ-tube. Rich media usually encourage vigorous sporulation, which may
TECHNIQUE 41<br />
be undesirable. Weak agar media made with tap-water, dilute Knop solution<br />
or 1 per cent, malt are.employed when it is desired to isolate individual sporidia<br />
in series from single promycelia of Ustilago species.<br />
Sterihzation of chlamydospores can be effected by soaking them for 24 hours<br />
or longer in 1 per cent, copper sulphate solution (Stakman et al., 1929).<br />
MEDIA FOR GROWTH IN CULTURE<br />
Smuts will grow on many standard media used for fungi, but slight changes<br />
in composition alter the appearance of the colony. For tte comparison of<br />
several monosporidial lines cultures are made in dupUcate or triplicate on one<br />
batch of the medium, the same quantity of agar being poured into each dish.<br />
Potato glucose and potato sucrose agars have been widely used for the study of<br />
gametophytic characters (see p. 30).<br />
In descriptive work shades of colour are matched by standard plates such as<br />
Ridgway's. Photographs are useful to record features not easily described and<br />
cultures are usually in good condition for this after about 40 days. To avoid<br />
disturbing reflections liffthe circle of agar bodily from the dish and place it on<br />
a sheet of cardboard.<br />
To maintain stock cultures in an active condition they should be transferred<br />
every four weeks. Potato glucose agar (1 per cent.) and a modified form of<br />
Czapek agar have been used for U. maydis. The second medium has the merit<br />
of lowering the rate of mutation (see p. 37). Meat extract agar (1 per cent.) was<br />
used for stock cultures of the oat smuts by Sampson & Western (1938).<br />
Smuts attacking grasses have not yet been widely cultured. Fischer (1940)<br />
found that U. striiformis wiU tolerate a relatively high concentration and makes<br />
good growth on agar containing 8 per cent, dextrose, 4 per cent, malt extract,<br />
and 1 per cent, peptone.<br />
No infallible technique can be given for inducing the development of chlamydospores<br />
in artificial culture (see p. 25). Species of Entyloma form them readily<br />
in a few weeks on potato dextrose agar. Cultures may be started by fastening<br />
portions of fresh, infected leaves to the hds of .Petri dishes, allowing the sporidia<br />
to fall, as discharged, on the surface of clear filtered agar, and selecting those<br />
colonies that originate in the larger, allantoid, binucleate sporidia (see p. 22).<br />
Chlamydospore formation is long delayed in some species, occurring in Tilletia<br />
caries only after three months on oatmeal and Leonian agars (BuUer, 1933).<br />
Schmitt (1940) tried many media to induce the formation of chlamydospores in<br />
U. maydis without success.<br />
PREPARATION OF MONOSPORIDIAL CULTURES<br />
For genetical analysis it is necessary to isolate a series of single sporidia in a<br />
particular order from the promycelium of one chlamydospore. Dickinson (1926)<br />
described an apparatus designed to move a finely pointed glass needle over a<br />
small field in three planes, and to drag small cells, from 30 to 20 /n down to the<br />
Hmits of microscopic vision, to a chosen part of the field while under observation.<br />
Haima (1928) constructed a similar isolator from parts of apparatus commonly<br />
used in a laboratory and employed it for the preparation of monosporidial<br />
cultures of Ustilago maydis and Sphacelotheca reiliana. A single chlamydospore
42 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
is taken up on the tip of a dry needle (Hanna, 1924) and placed on a drop<br />
of sterile 1 per cent, malt agar in the centre of a cover slip, which is then<br />
inverted over a van Tieghem cell 25 mm. high. The bell, which can be cut from<br />
a block of paraffin wax, has an opening at one side to admit a glass needle prepared<br />
from tubing 3 mm. in diameter, the pointed tip of which is about 15 ja in<br />
diameter and bent at a right angle. When the spore has germiaated and the<br />
sporidia are full size (8 X 2 jit in U. maydis), the needle is moved up untU its point<br />
touches the Hquid film immediately below the sporidium to be isolated. By<br />
the turn of a screw the needle is lowered slightly, and by a movement of the<br />
mechanical stage the sporidium can be drawn in a cone of liquid away from the<br />
chlamydospore. After pausing a moment, the needle is lowered and the sporidium<br />
leaves the agar and remains on the point of the needle. It can then be<br />
placed on a fresh drop of agar on a new cover slip, temporarily put in the<br />
position of the first cover slip, and the same procedure is followed with the next<br />
. sporidium.<br />
Dickinson (1933) has described, with diagrams, this and other methods of<br />
monospore isolation, including the separation of h3rphal tips by microscissors<br />
prepared from razor blades, a technique which might be useful for the isolation<br />
of haplonts in those smuts which do not form sporidia readily on the promycelia<br />
or separate into haploid cells at low (L° or 2° C.) temperatures (Lange de la<br />
Camp, 1936; Thren, 1937).<br />
TESTS FOR THE COMPATIBILITY OF MONOSPOEIDIAL LINES<br />
Fusion of sporidia. The oldest method adopted by Kniep (1919), and many<br />
others, is to pair monosporidial cultures on agar and to record the presence<br />
or absence of fusions. Cultures should be young and actively budding when<br />
tested. Tyler (1938) grew stock cultures of Sphacelotheca sorghi on potato dextrose<br />
agar and for the tests transferred sporidia to drops of sligEtly alkaline<br />
malt agar (3 per cent, malt, 2 per cent, agar) incubated at 27° C. Early stages<br />
of fusion can be detected under the microscope after 24 hours,; later a long<br />
straight hypha guides the eye to the point of fusion., Numbers of sporidia fail<br />
to fuse even in compatible lines, and experience is needed in interpreting results.<br />
Media should be low in nutrients (distilled water or 1 per cent, malt extract) and<br />
the temperature 20°-24° C. for sporidial fusion in U. maydis (Bowman, 1946).<br />
Bauch test. This was used successfully for U. violacea, U. maydis, and U.<br />
scorzonerae (Bauch 1927, 1932 a), S. sorghi (Tyler, 1938), and U. striiformis<br />
(Fischer, 1940 a), but Holton (1932) and Western (1936 b) found it unreHable<br />
for the two oat smuts. The test depends upon the fact that in certain species<br />
the cultures derived from compatible lines develop white aerial mycelium (the<br />
Suchfdden of Bauch) which contrasts sharply with the glabrous surface of monosporidial<br />
or paired incompatible cultures. Other cultural characters are sometimes<br />
useful. Haploid colonies of U. nuda belonging to different compatibility<br />
groups develop a Ught streak at the zone of contact on potato dextrose agar<br />
(Lange de la Camp, 1936).<br />
Formation of chlamydospores in the host. A drawback to this method is the<br />
length of time that must elapse before results can be expected, but by manipulating<br />
conditions of growth two or more generations of the host can be growii
TECHNIQUE 43<br />
in one season (see p. 46). Different metliods of inoculating the host are given<br />
below. Chlamydospore formation on maize is said to be the only reliable test<br />
for compatibility in U. maydis (Stakman et al., 1943) and most workers use it<br />
to confirm other tests which stop before reaching this point in the life-cycle.<br />
Colour changes in the host. These can be used in some species to shorten the<br />
experimental period since they denote compatibility before sporulation takes<br />
place. Plants of sorghum inoculated by the hypodermic method with compatible<br />
lines of S. sorghi develop chlorotic spots in four to six days (Rodenhiser, 1932;<br />
Tyler & Shumway, 1935; Tyler, 1938). The presence of anthocyanin in the<br />
epidermal cells of Golden Bantam sweet com is correlated with the presence of<br />
dicaryophytic mycelium of U. maydis and S. reiliana (Hanna, 1929; Christensen,<br />
1931).<br />
INFECTION OF THE HOST<br />
The following methods of bringing about infection, which have been worked<br />
out for the cereal smuts, can be adapted for other species when the natural seat<br />
of infection is known.<br />
Seedling infection, (a) Dusting dry grain with dry sieved chlamydospores. This<br />
method works well with bunt of wheat provided the spores are viable ^.nd the<br />
grain is germinated at a temperature of 5°-15° C. For maximum infection,<br />
100 gm. of seed are shaken with 0-5 gm. of bunt spores. K these are well distributed,<br />
about 36,000 to 150,000 spores will adhere to a single grain (Heald, 192L';<br />
Heald & Boyle, 1923). The depth of sowing should be about If in., the soil<br />
50 per cent, water saturated with a reaction of pH 5-5-7-5 (Rodenhiser & ^<br />
Taylor, 1940). Other useful details concerning the glasshouse culture of wheat,<br />
oats, and barley, where high smut infection is desired, are given by the American<br />
Phytopathological Society, 1944 (see also Faris, 1924 a; Feucht, 1932; Ling,<br />
1941). ^<br />
To get good results with oats, it is necessary to remove the pales before dusting<br />
the grain with spores; This can be done with a tapering, blunt-tipped scalpel.<br />
Each sample of shelled grain, coated with spores, is either sown in sand taving<br />
a moisture content of 20 per cent, saturation, or spaced out on moist filter-paper,<br />
covered with an additional sheet, and made into rolls. Both methods give<br />
100 per cent, infection with susceptible varieties if a temperature of 20°-<br />
22° C. is maintained during the first three days of germination. Subsequently<br />
the seedlings are transplanted to soil (Sampson, 1929; Sampson & Western,<br />
1938). In a similar technique with wheat bunt spores are allowed to germinate<br />
at 10° C. on rags used in seed-testiag seven to ten days before wheat, soaked in<br />
distilled water for 18 hours, is added. The rag-doll is kept for another ten to<br />
fourteen days at the same temperature, and the seedlings are transplanted to soil<br />
when the shoots are not more than 30 mm. long (Livingston & Kneen, 1944).<br />
The removal of pales from barley by hand (Tisdale, 1923) is laborious and<br />
may lower the percentage germination. Scarification between sandpaper<br />
(Aamodt & Johnston, 1935) and soaking in sulphuric acid cause injury (Briggs,<br />
1927 ; Johnston, 1934; Woodward & Tingey, 1941).<br />
The following wet methods of inoculation can be used with grain in the husk.<br />
(6) Spore-suspension method. A spore-suspension is made by shaking 1 gm.<br />
of spores in 1 litre of water. Seed is shaken in this for ^ minute and then allowed
44 THE BBITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
to soak for 15 minutes. The suspension is decanted and the vials are inverted<br />
over clean blotting-paper to absorb aU free water. The samples of grain are then<br />
packed in a tightly covered tin box lined with moist blotting-paper and incubated<br />
for 24 hours at 20° C. They are transferred to envelopes which are left<br />
wide open for two to three days until the seed is dry, t^hen it should be sown<br />
in relatively dry soU at a temperature of about 15° C. (Leukel, 1936). This<br />
method, used effectively for Ustilago hordei (Tapke, 1935 b, 1937 b) and for U.<br />
avenae (nigra) (Tapke, 1937a), gave better results than the dry method, whether<br />
seedlings were kept for two to four weeks in a glasshouse or grown entirely in the<br />
field. The deeper-seated inoculum resulting from the spore-suspension method is<br />
probably more resistant to cold (Tapke, 1938, 1940).<br />
(c) Partial-vacuum method applied to grain in the husk. This method was used<br />
by Zade (1928), Haaring (1930), and Western (1937) for oats, and by Alhson<br />
(1937) and Tapke & Bever (1942) for barley. It is quicker and more effective<br />
than dusting the shelled grain of barley and is less likely to lead to contamination<br />
of physiologic races by air dispersal (Leukel, Stanton, & Stevens, 1938).<br />
One hundred grains of each variety are placed in test-tubes containing 10 ml.<br />
of a suspension of chlamydospores and evacuated in a desiccator attached to a<br />
motor vacuum pump for 20 minutes. The sample is allowed to dry for 12 hours,<br />
stored at 2° C. for 24 hours, and then sown. This technique can also be used for<br />
inoculations carried out with suspensions of appropriate sporidial lines (Allison,<br />
1937). It has been used successfully with spores and sporidia of U. bullata for<br />
the inoculation of species of Brcmius, Agropyron, Elymus, Hordeum, and other<br />
genera (Fischer, 1940 b) and for species of Urocystis on cereals and forage grasses<br />
(Fischer & Holton, 1943). The inoculated seed is sown while stiU wet in pots of<br />
soU in a glasshouse.<br />
(d) The infection of wheat by paired monosporidial lines of hunt. A fragment of<br />
mycelium from each of the two lines to be combined is placed near the edge of a<br />
Petri dish containing potato' dextrose agar. The dish is turned on edge so that<br />
sporidia, as they are discharged, may fall on the agar and start new colonies.<br />
The culture is then inverted over surface-sterilized wheat grains lying in the Hd<br />
of a dish lined with moist filter-paper and incubated at 10° C. for ten to fourteen<br />
days. The seedlings thus receive sporidia from the two lines during their growth<br />
and are subsequently transplanted to soil at about 15° C. and allowed to mature<br />
(Flor, 1932 a; BuUer, 1933; Hanna, 1934; Holton, 1938 b).<br />
Flower infection, (a) Use of finely pointed forceps. Spores after removal from<br />
the flower head are passed through a 40-mesh sieve. They may be held conveniently<br />
in a capsule secured to the thumb by means of a ring, thus leaving the<br />
thumb and fingers free to hold the inflorescence (Tapke, 1935 a). The glumes of<br />
wheat are forced apart when anthesis has begun and the spores are placed on the<br />
exposed ovary (Hanna, 1937). To open the closely interlocking pales of barley<br />
causes injury and Tapke (1935) found it better to pierce the centre of one of the<br />
pales with the forceps and to insert the spores on the stigma. This yielded plump<br />
seed which could be sterihzed in formalin solution (1 in 320) without injury. It<br />
is important to keep the temperature and humidity relatively high (over 30 per<br />
cent.) for some days after inoculation (Tapke, 1931).<br />
(&) Use of a dry spray. A small sprayer with finely pointed nozzle and a device<br />
for holding and pumping it with the same hand was used to inoculate wheat and
TECHNIQUE 45<br />
barley with loose smut at HaUe, Germany, and elsewhere (Tiemann, 1925;<br />
Seiffert, 1926; Piekenbrock, 1927 ; Grevel, 1930; Zeiner, 1932; Nahmmaoher,<br />
1932; Radelescu, 1935 b; Roemer, Fuchs, & Isenbeck, 1937). One drawback to<br />
its use is the danger of introducing between the pales excessive numbers of spores<br />
which lead to a high death-rate among plants grown from inoculated seed. To<br />
obviate this, the inoculum is diluted with 95-9 per cent, of dead spores, kiUed<br />
with ether or by exposure to dry heat at 150° C. for several hours (Thren, 1938).<br />
(c) Partial vacuum method applied to cereals in flower. A suspension of spores<br />
of Ustilago nuda is made by shaking two medium-sized smutted heads in 100 ml.<br />
of water in a conical flask. An apparatus was designed by Moore (1936) for<br />
bringing the suspension into direct contact with ears of growing wheat or barley.<br />
A partial vacuum is created by the aid of a large automobUe pump with an<br />
inverted plunger-leather, and air withdrawn from the florets is replaced by the<br />
suspension of spores. Oort (1939, 1940) found that, with slight modifications,<br />
four heads could be treated at one time. Vanderwalle (1945), using a rotary<br />
vacuum pump, inoculated 180 ears per hour and obtained up to 98 per cent, of<br />
smut in many lines of barley which showed only slight smut in ordinary culture.<br />
Atkins (1943) found that four heads gave ample seed for testing the resistance<br />
of a variety to loose smut.<br />
The optimum period for inoculation is at mid-anthesis and lasts for a few days<br />
only. The most efiective concentrations of spores in the suspension are 1 gm.<br />
for wheat smut and 0-1 gm. per litre for barley smut. The winter hardiness of<br />
plants raised from seed inoculated by this method is only 10 to 20 per cent,<br />
below normal. Heads of uniform maturity should be selected for inoculation,<br />
but even so results are sometimes inconsistent (Middleton & Chapman, 1941).<br />
{d) Use of a hypodermic needle. A suspension of chlamydospores in 1 per cent,<br />
glucose solution held in a rubber bulb of 10 ml. capacity is injected by means of<br />
a 1-in. 25-gauge hypodermic needle into each floret of a spike of barley a day or<br />
two after the exsertion of the inflorescence. Thirty to forty heads can be inoculated<br />
in one hour (Poehlman, 1945, 1947). See also Bever, 1947.<br />
Shoot infection. The hypodermic injection of maize and other cereals. Monosporidial<br />
lines of U. maydis are grown separately in a solution of 2 per cent,<br />
dextrose and 1 per cent, malt syrup and allowed to develop for two to three<br />
weeks before inoculations are made. They are then strained through cheesecloth<br />
to remove the largest clumps of sohdjuaterial. Cultures for test are mixed<br />
just before inoculation and the inoculum is injected into plants by means of a<br />
hypodermic syringe as near to the growing-point as possible. Controls are<br />
inoculated in the same manner with sterile nutrient solution (Tisdale & Johnston,<br />
1926; Stakman & Christensen, 1927 ; Stakman et al, 1929; Hanna, 1929; Platz,<br />
1929).<br />
Maize plants inoculated wben one week old produce gaUs in three to four<br />
weeks at a glasshouse temperature of 27°-32° C. and it is possible to grow ten<br />
generations of chlamydospores of U. maydis within a year (Schmitt, 1940).<br />
Artificial inoculation will cause infection in some lines of maize resistant to smut<br />
in the field (Grifliths, 1928; Griffiths & Humphrey, 1929; Platz, 1929).<br />
Higher infection results if the sporidia are suspended in a fluid having a<br />
low surface tension. Bavis (1935) obtained good results with a 1 per cent, fish<br />
oil-soap-carrot decoction having a surface tension of 34-0 dynes per sq. cm.
46 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Wilkinson & Kent (1945) used 0-7 per cent, triethanolamine oleate to reduce the<br />
surface tension.<br />
The development of galls in artificially inoculated maize may be inhibited<br />
by certain bacteria antibiotic to smuts in culture (Johnson, 1931; Bamberg,<br />
1931). Modifications of the hypodermic injection method have been used for<br />
bunt of wheat, the loose smuts of wheat and barley, and loose kernel smut of<br />
sorghum (Fans & Reed, 1925; Milan, 1928 ;.Bodine & Durrell, 1930; Lange de la<br />
Camp, 1936, 1940). Suspensions of germinating chlamydospores, or mixed<br />
sporidia from appropriate cultures, form the inoculum which must be inserted<br />
near meristematic tissue. Chlamydospores of U. striiformis, injected as near as<br />
possible to the apex of shoots of Poa pratensis, gave good infection, and the<br />
method is likely to be useful in breeding for resistance to stripe smut (Leach,<br />
Lowther, & Ryan, 1946).<br />
The use of low temperatures and artificial illumination to extend the season for<br />
experimental work on smuts deserves further study, since the results are somewhat<br />
conflicting. Lengthening the period of light gave a marked increase in the<br />
percentage bunt in two varieties of spring wheat (Rodenhiser & Taylor, 1940) and<br />
caused a breakdown in the resistance of another variety to some races of bunt<br />
(Rodenhiser & Taylor, 1943). A small increase in the amount of smut on Dakold<br />
rye occurred under long day conditions (Ling, 1941), but artificial illumination<br />
failed to alter the degree of infection by smut on oats (Reed, 1938). Snell (1938)<br />
found that early varieties of summer wheat could be tested for bunt resistance<br />
in six weeks by maintaining a temperature ofl6°-17° C. during germination,<br />
and 20° C. during subsequent growth and constant (day and night) illumination.<br />
VemaUzed winter wheat may give a lower bunt infection than the control seed<br />
(NemUenko, 1935; Lasser, 1938). Marquis wheat artificially inoculated with<br />
loose smut gave the same incidence of disease when vernalized and not-vernalized<br />
(Hanna, 1936). Bever (1947) used vernalized seed and grew two experimental<br />
crops of wheat in one year in his work with loose smut.<br />
CONTROL<br />
(a) To determine the smut spore load on cereal seed. Forty gm. of seed are<br />
placed in a 500-ml. Erlenmeyer flask to which 60 ml. of distilled water containing<br />
0-1 per cent, of a proprietary wetting agent are added. The flask is then<br />
shaken vigorously 30 times, taking care to overturn thoroughly the seeds in the<br />
flask. Ten ml. of the washings are immediately poured into a centrifuge tube,<br />
centrifuged for four minutes at 2,400 r.p.m., and the supernatant liquid is then<br />
siphoned off to within 0-3 ml. To this residue is added 0-2 ml. of a 4 per cent,<br />
gelatine solution maintained at 45° C, making a total of 0-5 ml. of spore suspensions.<br />
The spores are dispersed by stirring and a loopful is withdrawn quickly<br />
and placed on a special slide and immediately covered with a cover glass. If<br />
smut spores are numerous, count eight microscopic fields, if scarce, eight swaths,<br />
across the central square of the slide. In order to compute the spore load of the<br />
grain sample, the counts are compared with standards prepared from artificially<br />
smutted grain samples carrying a range of known spore loads (Cherewick, 1944;<br />
•BusseU, 1946).<br />
(6) Seed treatments. Historical reviews have been given by Woolman &<br />
Humphrey (1924), Sampson & Davies (1925), Koehler (1935), Dillon Weston
TECHNIQUE 47<br />
(1939), Holton & Heald (1941), and Buttress & Dennis (1947). Holton & Heald<br />
(1941) give references to over 200 different substances which have been tested<br />
for the control of bunt. They also review in some detail the laboratory method<br />
first introduced by Gassner (1923) for determining the chemotherapeutical<br />
index of fungicides.<br />
Seed treatment when infection comes from spores carried on the seed. Formaldehyde.<br />
Grain is sprinkled with a solution made by mixing one part of 40 per cent,<br />
formaldehyde (formalin) in 320 parts of water and covered for two to four hours<br />
before it is spread out to dry. From one to two gallons of the solution is required<br />
to moisten four imperial bushels of grain. Injury to germination sometimes<br />
follows, especially in wheat if the pericarp lying over the embryo is cracked<br />
(Hurd, 1921). Grain should be sown within a few days of treatment (Moore,<br />
1945; Dillon Weston & Taylor, 1948). This method is particularly useful for<br />
small lots of grain to be used in laboratory experiments requiring smut-free<br />
seed. If the seed is to be reinoculated, it is washed in running water for 30<br />
minutes before drying. • Dusts are now preferred for treating grain in bulk.<br />
Dusts. Copper carbonate applied usually at the rate of two ounces per bushel<br />
is effective for the control of wheat bunt provided the grain is not too heavily<br />
contaminated with spores. It is less effective than organo-mercury compounds<br />
for other seed-borne diseases of cereals, and has been superseded by proprietary<br />
products which are sold under trade names such as Uspulun, Semesan, TUlantin,<br />
Ceresan, Agrosan, &c. The ingredients of these dressings vary widely (Dillon<br />
Weston & Booer, 1935; Martin, 1940) and under a scheme initiated in 1943<br />
those tested and approved by the Ministry of Agriculture bear a special diamondshaped<br />
mark (Dillon Weston & Taylor, 1948).<br />
To treat small samples of any cereal with either copper carbonate or one of the<br />
organo-mercury dusts it is only necessary to shake the grain with some of the<br />
powder and to remove the excess by sieving, but for treatment on a larger scale<br />
special machines must be used. These vary from hand-rotated chums to more<br />
elaborate power-driven machines (Holton & Heald, 1941; Moore, 1945; Dillon<br />
Weston & Taylor, 1948). Organo-mercury dusts are poisonous and should not<br />
be inhaled or handled with wet hands. In the slurry method of treating seed<br />
flying dust is eliminated. The fungicide, in a wettable form, is applied to the<br />
seed in a heavy suspension which leaves only 0-5 to 1 -0 per cent, of moisture on<br />
the seed and this soon evaporates (Leukel, 1948). In Britain some growers make<br />
a practice of applying an organo-mercury dust to seed oats, wheat, and barley<br />
before dispatch. Treated grain can be stored for months in a dry, cool, and wellventUated<br />
place and the chemicals are said, to deter rodents. Injury does not<br />
follow unless the seed is damp when treated and excess adheres to the seed or if<br />
seed has been mechanically injured in thrashing. Seeds may be killed outright<br />
or grow with abnormally thickened and much-stunted shoots and roots (DiUon<br />
Weston & Brett, 1944; Moore, 1945; Hoppe, 1948). Organo-mercury dusts owe<br />
some of their popularity to the fact that they exert a fungicidal action against<br />
some other pathogenic fungi such as Helminthosporium avenae and tend to<br />
promote good estabhshment in the field (Sampson & Davies, 1925, 1926;<br />
Muskett & Cairns, 1932; Moore, 1945). They have been recommended for the<br />
control of Ustilago bullata in forage grasses which are liable to suffer injury from<br />
formaldehyde (Moorwood, 1935; Fischer, 1942).
48 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
8eed treatment when there is mycelium in the embryo. Hot water. Wheat grain<br />
is soaked in cold water for four hours, drained for a few minutes, and submerged<br />
in warm water (52°-54° C.) for ten minutes^ It is then quickly spread<br />
in a thin layer to dry. For barley, the grain, after soaking, is plunged in water<br />
at 49° C. for five minutes and'then steeped for ten, minutes in water at 51° C.<br />
If the temperature is allowed to rise above 55° C. the grain may be damaged<br />
(Moore, 1945). Automatic machines for this treatment have been designed and<br />
some authors prefer a longer soaking (say, six hours) at a lower temperature<br />
(43° C.) (Jones, 1939). The injury to germination and growth which may foUow<br />
even careful treatment depends largely on the condition of the pericarp and this<br />
varies in each lot of seed (Tapke, 1924).<br />
Modifications of this method which make direct use of solar energy have been<br />
devised in India. No thermometer is necessary. Grain is soaked in water from<br />
8 a.m. to 12 noon and exposed in a thin layer to the sun from noon to 4 p.m. The<br />
best months for treatment in the Punjab plains, where the method has been<br />
widely used, are Mayand June, when the temperature in sunshine reaches 131°F.<br />
The treated grain can be stored without deterioration and complete control of<br />
smut was obtained when untreated samples gave 5-12 per cent, of smut<br />
(Luthra & Sattar, 1934; Luthra, 1941).<br />
The hot-water treatment is applicable to other smut diseases transmitted by<br />
infected seed or other organs of the plant. Bulbs of the grape hyacinth carrying<br />
mycelium of V. vaillantii held for one hour in water at 110° F. yielded smut-free<br />
flowers in the following year (A. Smith in litt., 1947).<br />
Seed treatment when infection comes from the soil. In Britain the only soUbotne<br />
smut disease for which control is practised is onion smut. The soU remains<br />
contaminated for some years, and in view of the serious nature of the disease the<br />
wisest plan is to avoid planting onions or related crops in ground infested by<br />
Urocystis cepulae. Where this is not practicable the best method is to apply<br />
formaHn to the soil. After sowing the seed and before covering it with soil,<br />
formalin (40 per cent.) solution (one pint in 16 gals, of water) is trickled into the<br />
drill. This quantity wiU suf&ce for 800 yds. of drill. If the soil is unduly wet,<br />
a stronger solution (up to two pints) can be used with safety (Minist. Agric. &<br />
Fish. Advisory Leaflet 261).<br />
This method gives only partial control but it is more effective than organomercury<br />
dusts (Gibbs, Bayliss, & Blackmore, 1941). Experiments have been<br />
made also with organic sulphur dusts such as thiosan, arasan, and tersan. The<br />
results are conflicting, but on the whole these substances are less effective than<br />
the standard formahn drip method (Miller & McWhorter, 1945; Nelson, 1946).<br />
Attempts have been made to combine the fungicide with an excipient such as<br />
feldspar, which is used in conjunction with methyl ceUulose solution to coat the<br />
seed. Pelleted seed, which is larger and more uniform in shape, can be sown with<br />
greater precision and thinning is less laborious, but no method yet devised gives<br />
complete control of smut (Gorenz & Walker, 1947; Linn & NewhaU, 1948).<br />
FIXATIVES<br />
Flemming's weaker solution (Harper, 1899; Paravicini 1917; Bhzzard<br />
1926; Seyfert, 1927; Kniep, 1921; Hanna, 1929; C. S. Wang, 1943) Bouin's,
TECHNIQUE 49<br />
Allen's, modification of Bouin's (Seyfert, 1927; Evans, 1933, 1937), and<br />
Nawaschin's (D. T. Wang, 1934; Western, 1936 b) fixatives have been used for<br />
smuts. A method for demonstrating nuclei in the promycelium first used by<br />
Kniep (1921) has been adopted with only slight modifications. The following<br />
details are taken from Hanna (1929). A thin film of 1 per cent, malt agar is<br />
spread over a sHde and spores are dusted on the surface with a camel's-hair brush.<br />
The slides are inverted over glass rods in a Petri dish containing a few drops of<br />
distilled water. At the desired stage of germination the material is fixed in<br />
Flemming's weaker fluid (15 minutes). The fixative is removed by adding a few<br />
drops of distilled water and sucking up the excess liquid with filter-paper. To<br />
avoid washing off the spores during staining the sHdes are passed through a bath<br />
of ether and then into a 0-2 per cent, solution of collodion made up with equal<br />
parts of alcohol and ether. Others (Harper, 1899) have germiaated the spores in<br />
beerwort in a watch glass, and used egg albumen to fix them to the shde. The<br />
liquid, which should be turbid with germinating spores, is taken up in a fine<br />
capillary tube and discharged into a larger droplet of the fixative. The spores<br />
settle on the film of egg albumen, and the hquid is allowed to evaporate, but not<br />
to dry out completely, before the shde is passed on to the alcohols. The fixative<br />
is not washed out.<br />
For a study of the cytoplasm D. T. Wang (1934) found the best fixative was<br />
le Regaud, consisting of 3 per cent, potassium bichromate (four parts) and 40 per<br />
cent, commercial formalin (one part).<br />
STAINS<br />
Harper (1899) used the triple stain^ for nuclei in the promycehum, but<br />
found a 1 per cent, solution of methyl green better for staining nuclei in spores<br />
already in possession of a thick wall. Most workers since Harper have used<br />
Heidenhain's haematoxylon. No recognized technique exists for treating the<br />
nuclei of smuts with a quick-acting fixative followed immediately by acetocarmine<br />
or similar dye, as in the method used for pollen and macerated tissue. In<br />
preliminary tests at Aberystwyth dividing nuclei in the promycelia of U. hordei<br />
were stained red by lacmoid,^ and this type of reagent deserves further trial for<br />
the nuclei of smuts.<br />
Metachromatic granules in the vacuome have been demonstrated by means of'<br />
neutral red, cresyl blue, and Delafield's haematoxylon. AniUne fuchsin, with a<br />
counter-stain of light green, stained the chondriosomes bright red in material<br />
fixed in Meves reagent (Yen, 1937).<br />
For detailed observations on parasitic mycelium sections of plant tissue<br />
should be 3-5 /x. Triple and Heidenhain's were used by Blizzard (1926), safranin<br />
and fast green by Evans (1933) for Urocystis cepulae, thionin and orange G for<br />
Ustilago may Ms by Walters (1934).<br />
The general distribution of mycelium in the host can be demonstrated in hand<br />
sections of material fixed in 70 per cent, alcohol and stained by lactophenol<br />
cotton blue or in microtome sections, 10-12 /^t, by aniline gentian violet wjth a<br />
counter-stain of Bismarck brown. Take the slides from 70 per cent, alcohol and<br />
^ For stains and fixatives see Plant Microtechnique, Johansen. McGraw-Hill, 1940.<br />
^ See The Handling o/ Chromosomes, C. D. Darlington & L. F. La Cour. Allen and Unwin,<br />
1942. 165 pp.<br />
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flood with a saturated solution of Bismarck brown in 70 per cent, alcohol. After<br />
seven minutes wash with 70 per cent, alcohol until only a faint brown colour<br />
remains. Flood with aniline gentian violet and leave fpr ten minutes. This stain<br />
should be freshly prepared, and for this reason the Isoloid' stains supplied by<br />
Messrs. Burroughs & Welcome Co. are useful. Drain off the violet stain and<br />
leave the slide in Gram's iodine solution for five to ten minutes. Remove surplus<br />
stain with absolute alcohol and wash in clove oil until violet is left only in the<br />
nuclei of the host and in myceHum. Wash in xylol and mount in Canada balsam.<br />
Mycelium stained deeply by this method shows up well in microphotographs.<br />
The staining capacity of hyphae varies with their age and it is not possible to get<br />
the optimum staining of old and young mycelium in the same section. Woolman<br />
(1930) found the mycelium of bunt to be Gram negative at the point of entry,<br />
Gram positive in later phases of growth.<br />
A quick method for the detection of mycelium in embryos of barley and wheat.<br />
Embryos, previously separated from the endosperm, are treated for several<br />
hours in a solution of hydrochloric acid (one part concentrated acid to three<br />
parts of water) containing 5 per cent, potassium chlorate, and then transferred<br />
to alcoholic caustic potash (20 per cent.). This bleaches and softens the tissue.<br />
After rapid neutrahzation with acetic acid the embryos are stained with aniline<br />
blue and crushed under the cover sHp. The myceHum can be seen among the<br />
dissociated cells of the host (Larose & Vanderwalle, 1939). Simmonds (1946)<br />
gives full details for separating and microtoming (10 [i) large numbers of embryos<br />
in order to compute percentage infection in a sample of seed. From 50 per cent,<br />
alcohol the slides are placed in Harris's haematoxylon for half an hour, washed<br />
in 50 per cent, alcohol, taken down to water, and stained in 5 per cent, aqueous<br />
solution of Congo red for three hours.<br />
Bismarck brown can be used to impart a golden-brown colour to hyaline<br />
promycelia and sporidia destined to be photographed. AUow most of the water<br />
to evaporate before adding absolute alcohol as a fixative. After drying leave for<br />
20 minutes in the stain, drain off excess, and mount in 50 per cent, glycerine<br />
(McAlpine, 1910).<br />
The development of spines on the chlamydospores of U. maydis was studied<br />
by Hutchins & Lutman (1938). Sections of material fixed in Allen's modification<br />
of Bouin's fixative are transferred to water and then to a satui-ated solution of<br />
orseiUine BB solution (about 1 gm. of orseilline in 30 ml. of 3 per cent, acetic<br />
acid) for 24 hours. Alcohol (50 per cent.) is then run quickly over the shde to<br />
remove the excess stain and the sections are placed in a saturated solution<br />
(1 gm. of aniline blue in 100 ml. of 3 per cent, acetic acid) for 24 hours. The<br />
sections are dehydrated quickly by flushing with absolute alcohol, immersed in<br />
xylol, and mounted in balsam. The exospore of young spores is dark red, while<br />
the minute spines are a brilhant red in contrast to the blue gelatinous covering<br />
of the spore Anlagen. In older spores the spines are grey and finally brown.
CLASSIFICATION<br />
THE morphological characters, on which descriptions of the Ustilaginales are<br />
based, are few and relatively simple. The size and ornamentation of the spores<br />
(chlamydospores) and the structure of the sorus are of paramount importance<br />
for differentiating species on morphological grounds, and from this standpoint<br />
smuts are among the most, convenient fungi with which to work. The usefulness<br />
of herbarium material, when carefully preserved, does not deteriorate, and so the<br />
identity of successive collections is easUy checked and the exchange of material<br />
between different workers greatly faciUtated. Final proof that a species belongs<br />
to the Ustilaginales, and the determination of which of the two families (and<br />
frequently also the genus) in which a specimen should be classified depends,<br />
however, on the course of events at spore germination. The spores of herbarium<br />
specimens, after a longer or shorter time, lose their abUity to germinate and the<br />
spores of fresh material may germinate with difficulty, so that many species have<br />
been proposed, and often correctly proposed, by analogy. One object of giving,<br />
whenever possible, details of the behaviour at germination and the conditions<br />
under which this event occurs after the usual specific descriptions in the<br />
systematic treatment of the British smuts is to draw attention to the need for<br />
further studies on this phenomenon.<br />
What constitutes sufficient grounds for the differentiation of a species varies<br />
from one group of organisms to another. In general, two tendencies may be<br />
observed among students of fungi. Morphological or biological characters may<br />
be emphasized. Among smuts, as in other groups of parasitic fungi, the second<br />
attitude has been commonly adopted, and many species have been proposed<br />
from a consideration of differences in parasitic abUity towards a series of plants.<br />
Hence the identity of the host becomes of primary importance for the identification<br />
of the parasite, although not infrequently biometrical studies reveal small<br />
differences in spore-size of other characters between morphologically similar<br />
'species' from different host plants.<br />
Butler (1929) reviewed with pertinent illustrations the criteria for the definition<br />
of species among fungi, and Ciferri (1932) expressed his views on the same<br />
subject with special reference to the smuts. Both these authors agreed that, in<br />
general, the most useful course is to defiiie-species by morphological characters<br />
and to reserve physiological and biological characters for the definition of groupings<br />
of subspecific rank, and this has been adopted as a guiding principle for<br />
the present work. Our attitude to the taxonomy of the British smuts has been<br />
conservative. We have made as few alterations as possible in both groupings<br />
and names, and whenever there is any doubt or the evidence appears to be<br />
inadequate no change has been made. Certain of the changes advocated call for<br />
comment as they affect smuts of economic importance.<br />
Cunningham (1924) and Rodenhiser (1926) each proposed the consohdation<br />
of the loose smut of wheat {Ustilago tritici) and the loose smut of barley {U.<br />
nvda) as a single species, and more recently this view has been supported by<br />
Fischer (1943). These two smuts are morphologically aUke and only differ in<br />
their pathogenicity. They may be compared with the specialized races of black<br />
rust (Puccinia graminis) which attack wheat and oats, and they should, it is felt.<br />
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52 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
be united as one species for which, under the International Rules of Nomenclature,<br />
the name U. nuda must be adopted. For similar reasons Fischer has<br />
been followed in uniting the covered smuts of oats (USkolhri) and barley (U.<br />
hordei) as one species, U. hordei, and the claim to specific rank of the race of<br />
U. avenae on tall oat grass (U. perennans) is not admitted. The logic of these<br />
changes may not appeal to plant pathologists—^neither may the degrading of the<br />
dahlia smut (Entyloma dahliae) as a form of-B. calendulae, the species into which<br />
all the forms attacking Compositae have been united—but it is the pathologists<br />
themselves who have provided the precedent by their skilful treatment of such<br />
a difficult species complex as Puccinia graminis.
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
MOST of the large number of specimens on which the following account of the<br />
smut fungi of the British Isles is based will be found in the herbaria of the Royal<br />
Botanic Gardens, Kew [Herb. Kew.], the British Museum (Natural History)<br />
[Herb. B.M.], and the Commonwealth Mycological Institute [Herb. I.M.I.].<br />
Other material examined is in the herbarium of the Ministry of Agriculture's<br />
Plant Pathology Laboratory, Harpenden [Herb. Path. Lab.], the Plowright and<br />
Grove sections of the herbarium of Birmingham University, and the comprehensive<br />
series of East Anglian smuts in the herbarium of Mr. E. A. Ellis.<br />
Whenever necessary and possible, sufficient specimens from Europe and other<br />
parts of the world were examined in order to establish the identity of the British<br />
material but, with one or two exceptions, the descriptions are based on collections<br />
made in these islands.<br />
The specific names have been carefully scrutinized. The full references to<br />
places of pubUcation are only given to establish the names adopted and for most<br />
species the synonymy is limited to names which have been used in this country.<br />
References to names for which the year only is given, and additional synonyms,<br />
may be found by consulting such standard works as those by Clinton (1904),<br />
Liro (1924, 1938), and Ciferri (1938).<br />
The time of occurrence is derived from the dates of collection of the specimens<br />
exaniined and for many species this period could probably be extended.<br />
The detailed distribution of most British smuts is uncertain. The twenty<br />
species here designated as 'widespread' occur in England and/or Wales, Scotland,<br />
and Ireland. Sampson (1940) compiled the published records for most species.<br />
The names of indigenous host plants are those recommended in the Check-List<br />
of British Vascular Plants (reprinted from J. Ecology, xxx, pp. 308-47, 1946).<br />
With the exception of Ustilago, the species have been arranged under the<br />
generic name in alphabetic order.<br />
USTILAGINAL^S Tulasne,<br />
Ann. Sci. nat., Bot., Ser. 3, vii, p. 73, 1847<br />
Mycelium inconspicuous, intra- then, usually, intercellular, systemic or localized<br />
at the point of infection. Sori conspicuous, generally forming exposed,<br />
powdery or agglutinated and usually dark-coloured spore masses at definite<br />
places on the host, especially in the flowers or inflorescence but frequently in the<br />
leaves and stems. Spores (chlamydospores) fight to dark in colour, smooth or<br />
variously ornamented, 4-35 /x diam., single, in twos, or in larger aggregates<br />
('balls') consisting of spores only or of spores and sterile cells. Sporidia<br />
(conidia) rarely formed on the surface of the host. Spore germination by a promycelium<br />
bearing lateral or terminal sporidia (basidiospores) which are frequently<br />
able to make saprophytic growth under natural conditions or in culture.<br />
Parasitic on plants, especiaUy the Gramineae and Cyperaceae.<br />
This Order has 33 genera arranged in two Families, the Ustilaginaceae and<br />
the TiUetiaceae. Two additional genera of palm-leaf parasites comprise the<br />
Graphiolaceae, a Famfly of somewhat uncertain relationship, which is frequently
54 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
included in the Ustilaginales. Representatives of 13 genera have been reported<br />
in the British Isles.<br />
Kerj to Families i<br />
a. Palm-Ieaf parasites . . . . . . • i • • Graphiolaceae<br />
a. Not palm-leaf parasites . . . . . . . ' . . . . b<br />
b. Promyceliiim transversely septate, sporidia lateral . . . Ustilaginaceae<br />
b. Promycelium non-septate, sporidia terminal . . • . . Tilletiaceae<br />
Key to Oenera<br />
of the Ustilaginaceae and Tilletiaceae reported in the British Isles<br />
Spores single . . . . . . . . . . . . b<br />
Spores in groups . . . . . . . . . . . . i<br />
b. Sori embedded in host tissue at maturity . . . . . . . c<br />
b. Sori not embedded in host tissue . . . . . . . . e<br />
Sori in swellings on roots, on Juncus . . . . . Entorrhiza p. 87<br />
(if on Eleocharis (Scirpus), see Ustilago marina, p. 75)<br />
Sori in leaves and stems . . . . . . . . . . d<br />
d. Spores dark in colour . . . . . . Melanotaenium p. 100<br />
d. Spores hyaline or light in colour . . . . . Entyloma p. 102<br />
Sori dusty at maturity . . . . . . . . . . . f<br />
Sori agglutinated at matiu-ity, on Cyperaceeie . . . . . Ointractia p. 78<br />
f. Sorus-covering a false membrane of fungus cells, on Polygonaceae<br />
Sphacelotheca p. 76<br />
f. Sorus-covering, if present, of host tissue . . . . . . . g<br />
Spores intermixed with sterile hyphal threads<br />
Spores not intermixed with sterile hyphal threads<br />
h. Spores large, usually 15-30 /i. diam. .<br />
h. Spores small to medium, usually 4^18 /i diam.<br />
Spores in twos, on Veronica . . . .<br />
Spores in balls . . . . . .<br />
j. Spore balls embedded in host tissue at maturity<br />
j. Spore balls not embedded in host tissue at maturity<br />
Spore balls having a cortex of sterilo cells, on aquatic plants<br />
Spore baUs without a cortex of sterile cells, on Primulaceae<br />
1. Spore balls having a cortex of sterile cells<br />
1. Spore balls without a cortex of sterile cells<br />
USTILAGINACEAE Schroeter,<br />
Krypt. Flor. Schles., iii (1), p. 266, 1887<br />
Tjrpe: Ustilago (Persoon) Roussel, 1806.<br />
Farysia p. 75<br />
. h<br />
Tilletia p. 81<br />
Ustilago p. 54<br />
Schroeteria p. 88<br />
j .<br />
. k<br />
1<br />
Doassansia p. 109<br />
Tuburcinia p. 90<br />
. Urocystia p. 92<br />
Thecaphora p. 80<br />
Spores usually exposed at maturity as a dusty or, less frequently, agglutinated<br />
spore mass. Spore germination by a septate promycelium bearing lateral<br />
sporidia or branches (see p. 20).<br />
USTILAGO (Persoon) Roussel,<br />
Flor. Calv., p. 47, 1806<br />
Type: Ustilago segetum Pers. on Gramineae, France..<br />
Synonym: Ustilagidium'SAtTherg, 1895.<br />
Sori in various parts of the host, especially the inflorescence. Spore mass<br />
powdery, usually dark in colour. Spores single, small to medium, usually<br />
4-18 fj. diam. Spore germination, see p. 20.<br />
Differs from Tilletia in the methods of spore formation (see p. 15) and germination.
FIG. 2. Spore geimination in Ustilago. a. U. bistortarum. x 3S0 (Brefeld, 1895); 6. U. grandis.<br />
X400 (Brefeld. 1883); c. U. tragopogonis-pratensis. x460 (Tulasne, 1854); d. U. kiiehneana.<br />
X350 (Brefeld, 1883); e. U.vaillantii. x 1,200 (Schroeter, 1877);/. U. Imgissima. (Bauch,<br />
1923); g. U. hypodytes (as V. spegazzini and its var. agrestis). X 800 (Fischer & Hirschhom,<br />
1945 b); h. U. striiformis. X 350 and x 735 (Osner, 1916); i. U. bullata. x 400 (Brefeld, 1883);<br />
j. U. scabiosae. (Harper, 1899).
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* Spores smooth or granular^<br />
Ustilago longissima (Sow. ex Schlecht.) Meyen ^<br />
\Uredo longissima Sowerby, Engl. Fungi., tab. 139, 17,99]<br />
Caeoma longissimum Schlechtendal, Flor. berol., ii, p. 129, 1824.<br />
Ustilago longissima (Sow. ex Schlecht.) Meyen, Pflanzen-Pathdlogie, p. 124,1841.<br />
Sort in the leaves as raised, dark, longitudinal streaks up to 1 mm. diam. and a<br />
few mm. to the length of the leaf long; the epidermal sorus covering, usually the<br />
upper, rupturing at maturity. Spore muss powdery, brown, dispersing to leave<br />
empty furrows in the leaf. Spores globose to sub-globose or more irregular, pale<br />
yellow-brown, apparently smooth, but under an oil immersion objective rough<br />
or granular, 4-6 ju, diam.<br />
On Glyceria maxima, and 0. fluitans.<br />
April-Oct. Widespread. Common.<br />
Exsiccati: on 0. maxima, Cooke, Fungi Brit. Exsicc., i, 55 B; ii, 71; Vize, Fungi<br />
Brit., 33; Vize, Micro. Fungi Brit., 568; on O. fluitans, Cooke, ibid., i, 55 A.<br />
Spore germination. The characteristic method of germination was described and<br />
figured by Fischer von Waldheim (1869), Brefeld (1883), and Plowright (1889),<br />
and recorded by several other workers (see Liro, 1924, p. 413). It is peculiar in<br />
that the promyceHum is very short (3-4 fx), scarcely projectiag from the spore,<br />
and cuts off apically a succession of sporidia. These grow rapidly in the nutrient<br />
solution, become septate, branch, and form more sporidia. Fusions occur and<br />
as the medium becomes exhausted sporidial production is replaced by mycelial<br />
growth. Paravicini (1917) observed the binucleate condition of mycelial cells<br />
following the fusion of sporidia. Hiittig (1931) claims that the longissima vaeihod<br />
of germination can be induced in Ustilago avewae by a low temperature (0° C.) and<br />
that U. longissima will form a four-celled promycelium (U. violacea type) at 35° C.<br />
Bauch (1923, 1930) and Kammerling (1929) studied incompatibility factors in<br />
U. longissima and in its variety macrospora. Four haploid nuclei are formed by<br />
the division of the nucleus in the chlamydospore, and two nuclei, -syhich usually<br />
differ in the factors that govern fusion, pass into the first sporidium. Consequently<br />
the uninucleate progeny of this sporidium will fuse inter se. Subsequent<br />
sporidia cut off from the promycelium carry only one haploid nucleus and their<br />
descendants will not fuse (see Fig. 2/). Fusion in U. longissima is governed by<br />
two pairs of allelomorphic genes. Normal fusion leading to the development of<br />
strong Suchfdden only occurs when the haplonts differ in both factors. If they<br />
have one factor in common a peculiar tangle of hyphae is formed and growth in<br />
culture is recognizably distinct (Bauch, 1930).<br />
Infection of host probably occurs through tiller buds (see Liro, 1924, p. 415).<br />
Ustilago hjTiodytes (Schlecht.) Fr. Stem Smut of Grasses<br />
Caeoma hypodytes Schlechtendal, Flor. berol., ii, p. 129, 1824.<br />
Ustilago hypodytes (Schlecht.) Fries, Systema, iii, p. 518, 1832.<br />
Sori in the stems, surrounding the internodes, when fully developed extending<br />
' The species of Ustilago have been grouped according to whether the spores are smooth<br />
or granular (see above), verrucose or echinulate (p. 60), or reticulate (p. 69), and they are<br />
arranged in increasing spore size within each group.
THE BRITISH SMUT FUJJGI 57<br />
from one node to the next and frequently aflFecting several successive intemodes<br />
or the entire stem (Plate I, Fig. 5), no special covering membrane but at first<br />
protected by the leaf sheaths; occasionally in the spiltelets. Spore mass powdery,<br />
dark brown, weathering away to leave the culm bare. Spores spherical to ovoid,<br />
sometimes more irregular, not infrequently, especially in some collections with<br />
a rather inconspicuous transparent cap at each pole, yellow-brown, smooth,<br />
4-7 (av. 4-5-5-0 ;LI) diam.i<br />
On Agropyron acutum, A. caninum, A. juncewm, A. pungens, A. repens<br />
Ammophila arenaria, Bromus carinatus, B. erectus, Elymus arenarius, Festuca<br />
gigantea, Trisetum flavescens.<br />
June-Sept. Widespread. Common.<br />
Exsiccati: Cooke, Fungi Brit. Exsic, i, 56; ii, 433; Vize, Fungi Brit., 35. Sydow,<br />
Dstilagineen, 10; Vestergren, Micromycetes rar. select.^ 1595.<br />
Spore germination. Several workers refer to the difficulty of germinating spores<br />
of this species (Fischer von Waldheim, 1869; Plowright, 1889; Viennot-Bourgin,<br />
1937; Bond, 1940). Winter (1876) figured a septate promycelium with one sporidium<br />
or a. TeMiveiy long Bierigma^ while BreMd (1^83) and Boss (1927}foand<br />
that the spores produced only a richly branched mycelium. Fischer & Hirschhom<br />
(1945 b) have photographed the germination of stem smut from<br />
several American forage grasses (Fig. 2 g). The proniyceUa become septate and<br />
put out protuberances which usually develop into branches. Occasionally (see<br />
Fig. 2gr (lower fig.), from Agropyron spicatum) these branches end in a sporidium,<br />
thus confirming some of the older conflicting records. In cultures branches grow<br />
above the medium and form chains of aerial sporidla (Boss, 1927; Bomhovd,<br />
1936; Kolk, 1943; Fischer & Hu-schhorn, 1945 b). Bornhovd paired 20 monosporidial<br />
cultures ^d failed to observe hyphal fusion, though the presence of<br />
coarser hyphae (Siichfaden) in old cultures suggested that fusion had occurred.<br />
Fischer & Hirschhom (1945 b) record fusions between detached sporidia.<br />
Infection of the host. The inoculation experiments of Bomhovd (1936) and Bond<br />
(1940) were inconclusive. Fischer (1945) successfully infected mature plants of<br />
Elymus canade^isis; Agropyron trachycaulum, and A. cristatum. The plants were<br />
clipped back in August to about five in., sprayed with a suspension of spores, and<br />
kept moist for 48 hours. The smut did not sporulate until two or three years<br />
after inoculation. The failure of other methods of inoculation, namely, blossominfection<br />
and seed-contamination, showed that this ^mut is not seed-borne.<br />
The morphology and growth of the sterile leafy culms replacing normal<br />
inflorescences on infected plants of Bromus erectus £(,nd Elymus arenarius have<br />
been described by Feucht (1930) and Bond (1940). Infection is systemic and a<br />
perennial mycelium exists in the rhizome. In diseased plants the shoot follows<br />
a continuous development in contrast to the periodic growth of healthy rhizomes.<br />
Viennot-Bourgin (1937) has described the changes in anatomy induced<br />
in the host by this smut.<br />
^ This description was written before the publication of the paper by Fischer & Hirschhom<br />
(1945 b), in which V. hypodytes is considered to embrjice four species and one variety<br />
separable into two groups characterized by species whose spores possess or lack hyaline<br />
bipolar areas or appendages. After a re-examination of the JBritish material and a study of<br />
other collections from Europe and North America, it was decided to make no change at<br />
present in the taxonomy and nomenclature of this smut.
58 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Ustilago hordei (Pers.) Lagerh. Covered Smut of Barley and Oats<br />
[Beticularia segetum BuUiard, 1791, P-p.]<br />
Uredo segetum subsp. hordei Persoon, Synopsis, p. 224, 1801.<br />
Uredo carbo de Candolle, 1815 [nov. nom. for U. segetum] p.p.<br />
Ustilago segetum (Pers.) Ditmar, 1817 [as ' U. segetum Link'] p.p.<br />
Ustilago carbo (DC.) Tulasne, 1847, p.p.<br />
Ustilago hordei (Pers.) Lagerheim, Mitt, badischen bat. Ver., p. 70 (March) 1889.'<br />
Ustilago avenae var. levis KeUerman & Swingle, 1890.<br />
Ustilago kolleri WiUe, 1893.<br />
Ustilago levis (Kellerm. & Swing.) Magnus, 1894.<br />
Sori in the spikelets replacing the ovaries and more or less of the tissues within<br />
the glumes. Spore mass firm, brown- or purpUsh-black, partly (or rarely completely)<br />
hidden by the glumes. Spores spherical to subspherical, pale yellow or<br />
greenish-brown, lighter in colour on one side than the other, smooth, 7-11<br />
(av. 8-5-9-0) fj, diam.<br />
On barley (Hordeum) and oats (Avena) causing Covered Smut.<br />
July-Sept. Widespread. Common.<br />
Spore germination has been studied by Fischer von Waldheim (1869), Kellerman<br />
& Swingle (1890), Brefeld (1895), Herzberg (1895), McAlpine (1910), Paravicini<br />
(1917), and others (see Liro, 1924). Stakman (1913), using a-race from barley,<br />
found that some spores germinated on water in 6^ hours and nearly all in<br />
24 hours. The growth of promycelia and sporidia follows the same plan as<br />
U. avenae (see p. 61).<br />
Infection of the host occurs during germination from spores lying on the surface of<br />
the grain or between the pales and the caryopsis. See p. 43.<br />
Racial specialization. Jacqzewski (1925) reported on the natural occurrence of<br />
U. hordei on rye in Siberia, and in the United States it occurs on Agropyron<br />
cristatum and Elymus glaucus jepsoni. Fischer (1939 a), using paired monosporidial<br />
cultures of covered smut from these hosts, produced infection on<br />
two varieties of barley and on the following grasses: Agropyron caninum, E.<br />
canadensis, E. glaucus jepsoni, E. sibiricus, Hordeum nodosum, and Sitanion<br />
jubatum. This race was physiologically distinct from covered smut of oats.<br />
Faris (1924 b) gives a table showing the infection of four differential varieties<br />
of barley by five physiologic races. Rodenhiser (1928), dealing mainly with<br />
cultural races, found that two differed also in pathogenicity. Aamodt & Johnston<br />
(1935) reported on two physiologic races at Alberta. Semeniuk (1940) in the<br />
same State detected four physiologic races in 1935-7 with an unexplained change<br />
in pathogenicity in 1938. Allison (1937) found that 27 out of 28 collections of<br />
covered smut could be differentiated on six varieties of barley, the type of<br />
infection varying with the race. Tapke (1937 b) distinguished eight races (including<br />
those of Faris) on five varieties of spring barley. Odessa was susceptible to<br />
all races. Later, 13 races were differentiated on eight varieties (Tapke, 1945,<br />
Table 1). New races were obtained by screening certain collections. Apart<br />
from pathogenicity, races differed in the size of colour of the chlamydospores,<br />
relative smoothness of the walls, degree of compactness of the heads, and mode
THE BRITISH SMUT FUKGI 59<br />
of exsertion. The most promising variety for breeding for resistance was<br />
Pannier C. 1. 1330. A change in pathogenicity attributed to hybridization<br />
resulted from the inoculation of Odessa with a mixture of two races of smut<br />
(Tapke, 1944).<br />
UstUago vaillantii Tul.<br />
Ustilago vaillantii Tulasne, Ann. Sci. not., Bot., Ser. 3, vii, p. 90, 1847.<br />
Sori in the anthers and, less frequently, the ovaries. Spore mass powdery,<br />
brownish-black. Spores globose, irregularly globose, or somewhat elongated,<br />
pale greenish-yeUow, smooth or slightly granular, 6-12 X 6-9 /x.<br />
On Chionodoxal uciliae, Muscari botryoides, M. cyaneo-violaceum, Scilla bifolia,<br />
S. verna.<br />
April. Widespread.<br />
Spore germination. Figures of germination made by Schroeter (1877), Brefeld<br />
(1883), Schellenberg (1911), Massee (1914), and Davie & Wilson (1914) suggest a<br />
similarity between this species and U. longissima (see p. 56). According to<br />
Schroeter (1877) a long eUiptical cell (16-18x3-5^ yu) arises on a short stem<br />
(3-5 X 2 /i) from which it is soon released; subsequently it becomes septate and<br />
cuts off sporidia directly or on short sterigmata. Additional sporidia (sometimes<br />
12 X 3, usually 4-6 X 2 /n) may develop from the promycelium (Fig. 2 e). Spores<br />
retain their viability for at least three months after being dried (Massee, 1914).<br />
Paravicini (1917) confirmed this method of germination in material from Scilla<br />
bifolia, observed fusions between sporidia, and figured nuclei.<br />
Infection of the host. The fungus is systemic and passes from the parent to newly<br />
formed bulbs. It wUl also infect young Scilla seedlings (Massee, 1914).<br />
Racial specialization. Ciferri (1938) distinguishes the form on S. bifolia as<br />
U. scillae Cif.<br />
Ustilago grandis Fr. Reed Smut<br />
Ustilago grandis Fries, Systema, iii, p. 518, 1832.<br />
Erysibe typhoides Wallroth, 1833, fide de Toni in Sacc. Syll., 1888.<br />
Ustilago typhoides (Wallr.) Berkeley & Broome, 1850 [Notices of British Fungi,<br />
No. 480].<br />
Sori in the culms as raised, brown, longitudinal streaks, sometimes completely<br />
surrounding the culm and extending from one node to the next, at first covered<br />
by the epidermis (Plate I, Fig. 4). Spore mass powdery, brownish-black,<br />
weathering away to leave the culm bare. Spores globose or somewhat elongated,<br />
pale brown, smooth (or, under an oil immersion objective, granular) 10-12 X<br />
7-10 ;x.<br />
On Phragmites communis.<br />
July-Oct. Cambridgeshire [Herb. Kew]; Norfolk [Herb. I.M.I. 17263]<br />
Spore germination. Kiihn (1877) described germination, noting a tendency for<br />
the promycelia to separate from the spore before producing sporidia. Brefeld<br />
(1883), who found that spores would germinate in autumn and remain viable
60 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
until spring, described the promycelia as three- to several-celled, with numerous<br />
almost rod-like sporidia which became septate in nutrient solutions, budding o£f<br />
sporidia in the same manner as the promycelia (Fig. 2 b). Fusions (clampconnexions)<br />
occurred between promycelial cells. Bauch (1925), working with<br />
four different collections, found certain race peculiarities. In one sample sporidia<br />
fused readily, showing simple heterothallism, while sporidial cultures from other<br />
collections soon lost their capacity to unite. Whereas the promycelium was<br />
normally four-ceUed, spores were observed which had two bicellular promycelia.<br />
Ustilago omithogali (Schm. & Kunze) Magn.<br />
Uredo omithogali Schmidt & Kunze, Deutschl. Schwamme, p. 5, 1819.<br />
Ustilago omithogali (Schm. & Kunze) Magnus, Hedwigia, xiv, p. 19, 1875.<br />
Sori ia the leaves and pedicels forming raised, elongated blisters 1-0-10 mm. long,<br />
each at first covered by a layer of host tissue which later ruptures. Spore mass<br />
granular, purphsh-brown. Spores globose, subglobose, or ovoid, not infrequently<br />
somewhat angled as a result of mutual pressure, smooth, 12-19 (av. 15-0) /i •<br />
diam.<br />
On Gagea lutea.<br />
The only British collection [Herb. I.M.I. 32334] is that by W. G. Bramley,<br />
Tadcaster, Yorks., April, 1928 (see Mason, 1928).<br />
Spore germination. Cocconi (1889) germinated spores from Gagea arvensis in<br />
water and in a filtered extract of leaves from the host plants. Elliptical sporidia<br />
developed terminally and laterally on the septate promycelia. Fusions between<br />
cells of the promycelium and between sporidia were observed.<br />
** Spores verrucose or echinulate<br />
Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr. Loose Smut of Oats<br />
[Reticularia segetum BuUiard, 1791, p.p.]<br />
Uredo segetum subsp. avenae Persoon, Synopsis, p. 224, 1801.<br />
Uredo carbo de Candolle, 1815 [nov. nom. for U. segetum], p.p.<br />
Uredo segetum e. decipiens Wallroth, 1815, fide Liro, 1924, p.p.<br />
Ustilago segetum (Pers.) Ditmar, 1817 [as ' U. segetum Link'], p.p.<br />
Erysibe vera holci-avenacei Wallroth, 1833, fide Ciferri, 1938.<br />
Ustilago carbo (DC.) Tulasne, 1847, p.p.<br />
Ustilago avenae Jensen, 1889 [nomen nudum].<br />
Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostrup, Overs. K. Danske Vid. Selsk. Forh. 1890, p. 13,<br />
1890.<br />
Ustilago perennans Rostrup, 1890, fide Fischer, 1943.<br />
Ustilago decipiens (Wallr.) Liro, 1924.<br />
Ustilago nigra Tapke, 1932, fide Fischer, 1943.<br />
Ustilago holci-avenacei (Wallr.) Ciferri, 1938.<br />
Sori in the spikelets replacing the ovaries and more or less the glumes (Plate I,<br />
Fig. 1); occasionally in the leaves. Spore mass firm then powdery, dark greenishbrown.<br />
Spores spherical to subspherical, pale greenish-brown and lighter in<br />
colour on one side than the other, minutely echinulate (echinulations especially
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 61<br />
noticeable on the lighter side) or, occasionally, apparently smooth, 4-8 (av.<br />
6-0-6-5) /x diam.<br />
On oats {Avena), causing Loose Smut, and Arrhenatherum elatius.<br />
June-Sept. Widespread. Common.<br />
Exsiccati: Cooke, Fungi Brit. Exsicc, ii, 430.<br />
Spore germination was figured by Tulasne (1847), Kiihn (1858), Fischer von<br />
Waldheim (1869), Brefeld (1883), and others (see Lire, 1924). Herzberg (1895)<br />
and Stakman (1913) studied germination on different media and at varied<br />
temperatures. On water at 22° C. germination begins in ten hours or under with<br />
the emergence of one or two promycelia from a single spore. Fully grown<br />
promyceUa are one to three septate, and the sporidia, cut off from the apex and<br />
from the septa, are oval to elongate (2 X 4-7 X 7 /i). Fusions occur readUy between<br />
cells of the promycehum. or between abstricted sporidia. On nutrient media<br />
sporidial production is more abundant and more prolonged and the sporidia tend<br />
to be larger and subglobose (5x9 /x) (Stakman, 1913).<br />
Infection of the host takes place at germination from chlamydospores which<br />
have drifted between the pales at anthesis and produced resting myceUum on the<br />
inner surface of the pales and on the pericarp, or from spores lying on or within<br />
the pales which germinate only when the seed is sown. The relative significance<br />
of the two methods in nature is a matter of debate (Zade, 1922, 1924, 1939;<br />
Arland, 1924; Gage, 1927; Sampson, 1929; McKay, 1936).<br />
Bacial specialization in the oat smuts. It is convenient to consider together the<br />
two species, Ustilago avenae and the. oat race of U. hordei (U. kolleri), since most<br />
reports on physiologic speciaUzation cover both types of smut. Evidence of<br />
racial specialization was suppUed by Reed (1924,1925 a, 1927) who numbered and<br />
described eleven races of U. avenae and five of U. hordei (as U. kolleri) (Reed,<br />
1930). Some races originated in collections from countries outside the United<br />
States, notably U. avenae, race fi, and U. kolleri, race 4, from England and<br />
U. avenae, race 7, and U. kolleri, rslce 2, from Wales. These and some other races<br />
were described by Sampson (1925, 1928, 1929). The behaviour of six spore collections<br />
was studied over a ten-year period, three remained stable whUe others<br />
were changed by screening on selected oat varieties. Evidence was presented for<br />
the heterozygosity of certain collections (Sampson & Western, 1938). Leitzke<br />
(1937) inoculated an oat variety with a mixture of two races and obtained a<br />
distinct race, already known in nature, but presumably originating in his<br />
experiment by hybridization within the host.<br />
Further search revealed new races in the United States (Reed & Stanton,<br />
1932, 1936) and in 1940 Reed tabulated the source and behaviour of 29 races of<br />
U. avenae, differentiated on 17 oat varieties, and 14 races of U. hordei differentiated<br />
on ten varieties. Nine species of Avena were examined and in all species<br />
a variety was found susceptible to at least one race of smut. A. barbata was<br />
susceptible to all races and A. sativa, var. Canadian, to nearly all races of both<br />
species of smut. The results with aU races were remarkably constant over a<br />
number of years.<br />
Racial speciaUzation has not been completely surveyed in Britain but Radchffe<br />
(1940) analysed 120 field collections using a seedling reaction based on the
62<br />
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
progress of invading mycelium, as well as spore development in the mature<br />
plant. He detected seven races of V. avenae and five of U. hordei (as U. kolleri)^<br />
three of which were identical with races isolated fijom field samples 15 years<br />
earher (Sampson, 1925,1929). Two races, GlofU. hordei and L 11 of C/. avenae^<br />
showed identical pathogenicity to a wide range ofl hosts. Race L 16 of U.<br />
avenae was peculiar in producing the symptoms of covered smut upon many<br />
varieties. Oats belonging to the potato and sprig groups oiA. saliva (Marquand,<br />
1922) were susceptible to 11 races of smut, a fact which can be correlated with the<br />
well-known tendency for crops of these old varieties to be heavily smutted (Stapledon,<br />
1921). U. avenae is more common in Britain on oats than U. hordei, only<br />
23 among 120 collections belonged to the smooth-spored species (Radcliffe, 1940).<br />
In all the trials certain varieties stand out as resistant, notably Markton,<br />
Navarro, Victoria, and Black Mesdag, but none is immune from all races<br />
(Coffman et al., 1931; Radelescu, 1935 a; Murphy, Stanton, & CofFman, 1942).<br />
Black Mesdag can be infected by at least four races of U. hordei (Reed & Stanton,<br />
1936; Reed, 1940) and by one or more races of U. avenae (Roemer, Fuchs, &<br />
Isenbeck, 1937; Vaughan, 1938). Markton, at first regarded as immune (Stanton,<br />
Shepherd, & Gaines, 1924), may be slightly infected by some races of<br />
U. hordei (Smith & Bressman, 1931), but it is classed with Navarro and Victoria<br />
as a valuable parent in breeding work, (Stanton, 1933; Murphy, Stanton, &<br />
Coffman, 1942). Fulton, a resistant selection from the cross ]?ulghum XMarkton,<br />
is now known to be susceptible to a new race of U. avenae (Hansing,<br />
Heyne, & Melchers, 1945).<br />
That resistance to smut is usually dominant in oat crosses was shown by<br />
Humphreys & Coffman (1937) from a study of F^ and by others of Fg and Fg<br />
generations. Resistance is governed by one, two, or three pairs of factors<br />
according to the varieties crossed (Barney, 1924; Gaines, 1925; Rosenstiel,<br />
1929; Garber, Giddings, & Hoover, 1929; Schattenberg, 1934; Stanton, Reed,<br />
& Coffman, 1934; Austin & Robertson, 1936; Reed, 1925-40; Reed & Stanton,<br />
1925-37). Resistance to covered^smut is apparently recessive in the cross<br />
Danish Island x Monarch (Reed & Stanton, 1937). Inheritance to the two smuts<br />
is usually independent (Reed, 1931-5; Reed & Stanton, 1937-8), but crosses<br />
involving the resistant variety Black Mesdag show parallel results suggesting<br />
that the same factors, or closely Unked factors, are responsible for resistance to<br />
both smuts (Reed, 1934).<br />
Black Loose Smut of barley, U. avenae (U. nigra, see Fischer, 1943).<br />
This seedling-infecting smut, at first confused with U. nuda, has been known<br />
since 1914 (Johnson, 1914; Tisdale & Tapke, 1924; Tapke, 1932; Ruttle, 1934;<br />
Tapke, 1935 a; Moore & Allison, 1935 b; Leukel, 1936). It has a wide distribution<br />
in the United States (Moore & Allison, 1935 b) and in a recent survey 209 among<br />
500 collections of loose smut of barley belonged to this species (Tapke, 1943).<br />
It is easily distinguished from U. nuda by the abundance of sporidial growth on<br />
2 per cent, potato dextrose agar (Tapke, 1941).<br />
Fischer (1939 a) inoculated a number of grasses with paired monosporidial<br />
cultures of U. nigra and produced infection on Elymus canadensis, Hordeum<br />
Twdosum, and Sitanion jubatum. Tapke (1943 b) records Hordeum 'pusillum as a<br />
host of U. nigra, race 4.
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 63<br />
Evidence of racial speciaKzation in this smut was given by Tapke (1936) and<br />
Josephson (1942). Tapke (1943 a) examined 168 collections and distinguished<br />
seven races. Race 4, which was most frequent, gave the same reactions on barleyvarieties<br />
as U. hordei, race 6. Races of U. hordei and U. avenae f. nigra readily<br />
hybridize and give rise to new forms (Bever, 1942, 1945).<br />
Ustilago nuda (Jens.) Rostr. Loose Smut of Wheat and Barley<br />
Vredo segetum subsp. tritici Persoon, 1801.<br />
Uredo carbo de CandoUe, 1815 [nov. nom. for U. segetum], p.p.<br />
Ustilago segetum (Pers.) Ditmar, 1817 [as ' U. segetum Link'], p.p.<br />
Ustilago carbo (DC.) Tulasne, 1847, p.p.<br />
Ustilago segetum var. hordei f. nuda Jensen, Om Kornsortenes Brand, p. 61,1888.<br />
Ustilago segetum var. nuda Jensen, J. Roy. agric. Soc, Ser. 2, xxiv, p. 406,1888.<br />
Ustilago nuda (Jens.) Rostrup. Tidsskr. Landakon., viii, p. 745, 1889.<br />
Ustilago tritici (Pers.) Rostrup, (March) 1890.<br />
Ustilago tritici (Pers.) Jensen in Kellerman & Swingle, ©©<br />
(June) 1890. ^^ ©<br />
Ustilago nuda (Jens.) Kellerman & Swingle, (June) 1890. y^Q 3 xjstilago nuda<br />
„ . . ,1 ., , , . , . ,T^, T -r-.. £M from wheat. Spores.<br />
8ori m the spikelets replacmg the ovaries (Plate I, lig. 2). x500.<br />
Spore mass firm, then powdery, dark greenish- or blackbrown,<br />
blowing away at maturity to leave the rachis bare. Spores spherical to<br />
subspherical or sometimes more irregular, pale yeUow-brown, lighter in colour on<br />
one side than the other, minutely echinulate, 5-9 (av. 6-5-7-0) fi diam. (Fig. 3).<br />
On wheat (Triticum) and barley (Hordium) causing Loose Smut.<br />
June-Aug. Widespread. Common.<br />
Exsiccati: Cooke, Fungi Brit. Exsicc., ii, 428.<br />
Spore germination. Brefeld (1888,1895), Kellerman & Swingle (1890), and others,<br />
(see Liro, 1924) described the non-sporidial type of germination characteristic<br />
of this smut. The chlamydospores are short-lived (see p. 18) and even fresh<br />
samples do not often give such high germination as U. avenae and U. hordei.<br />
According to Stakman (1913) spores from wheat begin to germinate on water in<br />
14-17 hours. A promycelium, usually only one, issues from the Hght-coloured<br />
area of the spore, branches after 24 hours, and forms either knee-joint fusions'<br />
between adjacent cells or connecting bridges between branches of the same<br />
promycelium or promycelia of near-by spores. Free promyceHa, detached<br />
segments, and sporidia are normally absent in this species, but on sugar solution<br />
the promycelium of the barley smut sometimes breaks up to form free segments<br />
(Stakman, 1913) and low temperatures also tend to promote fragmentation (see<br />
p. 42). After fusion the infection hyphae which grow out do not differ from<br />
other branches of the promycehum.<br />
Infection of the host. Experiments, substantiated by microscopic examination,<br />
established that the loose smut of wheat and barley gains entrance through the<br />
young ovary, passes to the growing-point of the embryo, and lies dormant until<br />
the seed germinates (Maddox, 1895,1897 ; Brefeld, 1903; Hecke, 1904; Freeman<br />
& Johnson, 1909). The progress of mycehum from the integuments to the
64 THE BBITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
embryo sac and the invasion of all parts of the embryo except the roots and<br />
young leaf primordia was described by Lang (1909, 1917 b). Mycelium is viable<br />
in the seed for at least three years. Certain field conditions, such as deep sowing<br />
(4r-5 cm.), may deter the fungus from reaching the inflorescence (Tiemann, 1925).<br />
Resistant varieties of wheat may produce some viable seed on infected plants<br />
and there is evidence that such seed carries mycelium derived directly from that<br />
in the axis of the parent (Larose & Vanderwalle, 1939).<br />
Racial specialization. (1) On wheat. Evidence of physiologic specialization in<br />
the loose smut of wheat was presented by Tapke (1929), and by Hanna &<br />
Popp (1932). Hanna (1937) described four races from western Canada, two<br />
direct from the field and two obtained by screening other collections on selected<br />
wheat varieties, Grevel (1930), following other workers at Halle, found four<br />
distinct races among 48 collections from Germany and other countries.<br />
Radelescu (1935 a) recognized three of Grevel's races on summer wheat in<br />
Rumania. Oort (1940) found three races on wheat in Holland, aU distinct from<br />
the loose smut of barley. Many varieties of wheat were resistant both in the field<br />
and under efiicient methods of inoculation (see p. 45). Bever (1947) distinguished<br />
11 races among 52 collections from the eastern soft wheat region of<br />
the United States.<br />
Marquis, Garnet, Hope, Presto, and Hussar were among the highly resistant<br />
varieties in America. Resistance to loose smut is dominant in some wheat<br />
crosses, recessive in others (Tingey & Tollman, 1934; Rudorf & Rosenstiel, 1934).<br />
The resistance of the Fj is similar in reciprocal crosses, showing that infection of<br />
hybrids is determined by the nature of the embryo rather than the character of<br />
floral tissues in the female parent (Larose & Vanderwalle, 1937; Milan, 1939).<br />
In resistant varieties the fungus penetrates the base of the ovary but does not<br />
normally invade the embryo (Vanderwalle, 1942), Resistance is apparently not<br />
correlated with the degree of opening of the glumes at flowering or with sap<br />
acidity (Tapke, 1929).<br />
Some wheat varieties which are hypersensitive to certain races of loose smut<br />
are inhibited in growth, and their leaves may be curled and chlorotic in stripes.<br />
Death often occurs at the third leaf stage (Oort, 1944, 1947).<br />
A loose smut, capable of attacking both wheat and rye, has been reported<br />
from several States of the American Union. Partial destruction of the heads<br />
is more common in rye than in wheat (Humphrey & Tapke, 1925). A smut,<br />
indistinguishable from U. nuda, has been recorded on Agropyron sibiricum at<br />
Washington. The inflorescence was only partially destroyed and spore production<br />
sparse (Fischer, 1938).<br />
(2) On barley. Nahmmacher (1932) detected two physiologic races among 45<br />
collections. Vanderwalle (1932) described early and late forms of loose smut<br />
which differed also in the degree of infection, the former, under glasshouse conditions,<br />
producing sori on culms and leaves. Oort (1940) records that the races on<br />
winter and summer barley in Holland are distinct from each other and from<br />
loose smut on wheat.<br />
Many barley varieties, both German and foreign, were tested for resistance<br />
to loose smut at HaUe (see p. 44). Most of the foreign naked barleys of the<br />
inaequalis type were highly resistant, spring barleys of the nutans-c type and
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 65<br />
winter inaequalis barleys were highly susceptible, while other types of barley<br />
included both resistant and susceptible varieties (Nahmmacher, 1932). No highly<br />
resistant varieties of winter or spring barley were found in HoUand (Oort, 1940).<br />
The inheritance of resistance has been studied both in Germany (Zeiner, 1932;<br />
Nahmmacher, 1932) and in the United States (Livingston, 1942). Eesistance<br />
appears to be dominant but not completely so in all crosses, and is sometimes<br />
controlled by a single factor. Interpretation of results is difficult, since no method<br />
of inoculation gives 100 per cent, infection in the susceptible varieties, and low<br />
results probably follow from death in the field of plants carrying smut. The<br />
infection of the embryo of Fj plants derived from reciprocal crosses between<br />
susceptible and resistant parents, indicates that hyphae can penetrate the floral<br />
tissues of plants bearing a dominant factor for resistance (Livingston, 1942).<br />
TJstilago bistortarum (DC.) Korn.<br />
Uredo bistortarum a pustulata<br />
' p marginalis de Candolle, Flor. franc, vi, p. 76, 1815.<br />
Caeorrut bistortarum (DC. [a]) Link, 1825.<br />
Caeoma marginak (DC. [jS]) Link, 1825.<br />
Ustilago marginalis (DC.) LeveiUe, 1848.<br />
Tilleiia bullata Fuckel, 1869 [nov. nom. for C bistortarum (DC.) Link].<br />
Ustilago bistorfurum (DC.) Kornicke, Hedwigia, xvi, p. 38, March, 1877.<br />
Ustilago pustulata (DC.) Winter, 1880.<br />
Sori in the leaves either as rounded pustules 2-5 mm. diam. scattered over the<br />
surface or as a continuous band round the margin, at first covered by the<br />
epidermal layers. Spore mass powdery, purplish-black. Spores globose, ellipsoidal,<br />
or angled, pale purple, densely, but minutely, verrucose, 10-16 /x diam.<br />
On Polygonum bistorta and P. viviparum.<br />
July-Aug. Scotland (see Trans. Brit, mycol. Soc, xxiv, p. 297, 1940).<br />
Spore germination. The four-celled promyeeHum is borne on an empty basal cell,<br />
and the sporidia, which are produced laterally at two only of the septa, fuse in<br />
pairs while still on the promycelium (Brefeld, 1895) (Fig. 2 a).<br />
Liro (1924), Ciferri (1938), and others (see sjmonymy above) regard the<br />
pustulate and marginal forms as distinct species.<br />
Ustilago bullata Berk. ^ -^ • Ear Smut of Brome Grass<br />
Ustilago carbo a vulgaris S bromivora Tulasne, 1847, fide G. W. Fischer, 1937.<br />
Ustilago bullata Berkeley in Hooker, Flora of New Zealand, ii, p. 196,1855.<br />
Ustilago bromivora (Tul.) Fischer von Waldheim, 1867.<br />
Cintractia patagonica Cooke & Massee, 1899.<br />
Ustilago patagonica (Cooke & Massee) Ciferri, 1928.<br />
Sori in the spikelets replacing the flower parts and sometimes destroying the<br />
bases of the glumes, each covered by a membrane of host tissue, 4-10 mm, long.<br />
Spore mass firm then powdery, black. Spores globose, yeUow-brown, generally<br />
minutely verrucose, sometimes granular or apparently smooth, 8-12 (mostly<br />
9-10) ju. diam.<br />
On Bromus maximus, B. mollis, B. madritensis, B. secalimis, and B. unioloides.<br />
May-Jime. England. Fairly Common.
66<br />
THE BBITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
This species has usually been designated U. bromivora (Tul.) Fisch. v. Waldh.,<br />
but an examination of the type specimen of U. hullata Berk, on Triticum<br />
(Agropyron) scabrum from New Zealand confirms the aption of Fischer (1937) in<br />
reducing U. bromivora to a synonym of U. bullata.<br />
The type of Cintractia patagonica Cooke & Massee, a smut described on<br />
B. unioloides from Patagonia and subsequently reported in Lincolnshire on the<br />
same host grown from imported seed, was found to agree with U. bullata.<br />
Spore germination. Schroeter (1887) described the promycelium as cylindrical,<br />
spindle-shaped, readily falling away from the spore, becoming septate, and producing<br />
sporidia from the ends and sides. These, which were usually two-celled<br />
like the promycelia, gave rise to unicellular sporidia. Brefeld (1883) germinating<br />
spores from B. secalinus figured fusions between cells of the promyceUum and<br />
between the unicellular sporidia (Fig. 2 i). Plowright (1889) confirming these<br />
observations found that spores collected in June germinated freely in September<br />
and the general experience has been that spores of this species germinate easily.<br />
McAlpine (1911) also described and figured germination, following Brefeld in<br />
regarding it as a distinct type. Hiittig (1931) found, however, that the manner of<br />
growth varied with temperature. At 20° C. two-ceUed sporidia are cut off as<br />
described by previous workers but at 25° C. a four-celled promyceUum is formed<br />
with terminal and lateral sporidia (the so-called violacea type see p. 70). Subsequent<br />
development is characterized by the abundant production of sporidia by<br />
budding as in U. hordei and U. avenae and scanty mycelial growth (KoBs, 1943).<br />
Bauch (1925) working with six collections of U. bromivora [V. bullata] noted<br />
several variations of the method of germination. While some spores produced<br />
a normal four-ceUed promycelium others developed two promycelia each of<br />
which was two-ceUed, while others had one three-celled and one one-celled<br />
promycelium. The sporidia were always unicellular and fusion was governed<br />
by a single pair of factors. In certain collections neutral strains were discovered<br />
which could be distinguished from the normal so-called sexual strains by the<br />
special growth form of the colonies. Hirschhom (1941 b), working with collections<br />
of spores from species of Hordeum and Bromus, detected slight differences<br />
in the size and number of promycelial cells which might be diagnostic for<br />
physiologic races.<br />
Infection of the host arid racial specialization. Extensive inoculation experiments<br />
have shown that infection takes place at the seedling stage (Liro, 1924;<br />
Fischer, 1940 b).. Using 44 collections from 36 species of Agropyron, Bromus,<br />
Elymus, Festuca, Hordeum, and Sitanion, Fischer (1940 b) detected eight<br />
physiologic races by their reactions on 14 differential hosts. They include<br />
the races on Bromus secalinus and B. mollis which Liro (1924) raised to<br />
specific rank.<br />
Ustilago maydis (DC.) Corda Maize Smut<br />
[Lycoperdon zeae Beckmann, 1768.]<br />
Uredo segetum var. mays-zeae de CandoUe, 1805.<br />
Uredo maydis de CandoUe, Flor. franc, vi, p. 77, 1815.<br />
Uredo zeae Sehweinitz, 1822.<br />
Ustilago zeae Unger, 1836.
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 67<br />
Ustilago maydis (DC.) Corda, Icones Fung., v, p. 3, 1842.<br />
Vstilago mays-zeae Magnus, 1895.<br />
Sori in the inflorescence and other aerial parts of the host as irregular sweUings less<br />
than 1 cm. to more than 10 cm. in length, at first limited by a white or cream membrane<br />
of host and fungus tissue. Spore mass powdery, very dark sepia. Spores<br />
globose or sub-globose to ellipsoidal, epispore bluntly echinulate, 8-12 fi diam.<br />
On Zea mays.<br />
Occasionally recorded in southern England.<br />
Exsiccati: Cooke, Fung. Brit. Exsicc., i, 433; ii, 431.<br />
Spore germination, which has been described by Brefeld (1895) and a number of<br />
other workers, takes place in nutrient solution at any time of the year. Terminal<br />
and lateral uninucleate sporidia are borne on a four-celled promycehum,<br />
singly or in simple or branched chains. Sporidial fusion occurs only under certain<br />
conditions (see p. 42).<br />
Infection of the host. Brefeld (1895) first demonstrated the localized infection of<br />
maize by U. maydis in contrast to the systemic infection of several other cereal<br />
smuts. The fungus can penetrate any part of the plant where the tissue is<br />
meristematic. Walter (1934) described the direct penetration of the epidermal<br />
wall and found that infection might arise either from the promycelium or from<br />
germinating sporidia. Chlamydospores and sporidia are distributed by wind<br />
and are very resistant to low temperature and to desiccation. The smut can ^<br />
multiply and live for some time as a saprophyte in soil (Piemeisel, 1917).<br />
Chlamydospores retained viabihty in pure sand for eight years (Kornfeld, 1937)<br />
and were not always destroyed by silage (Perlet, 1938). In the United States dry<br />
weather conditions are most conducive to infection (Immer & Christensen, 1928).<br />
Racial specialization. Ustilago maydis, a heterothalhc species, comprises an<br />
indefinite number of biotypes differing in pathogenicity and other characters<br />
(Christensen, 1931; Christensen et al., 1929; Hirschhorn & Hirschhom, 1939).<br />
Isolations from a single smut gall differed in their reactions on inbred fines of<br />
maize under artificial methods of inoculation (Eddins, 1929 a), but collections of<br />
smut spores from separate geographical areas were often aHke in pathogenicity<br />
when tested on selfed fines of maize under field conditions. Eesistance and suseeptibUity<br />
are governed by genetic factors. Flint varieties are more susceptible than<br />
dent varieties (Hayes et al., 1924), but rpsistailt selections can be found in most<br />
types of maize, and breeding for resistance offers the most promising method of<br />
control (Immer & Christensen, 1925; Immer, 1927; Immer & Christensen, 1931;<br />
Christensen & Johnson, 1935).<br />
Ustilago striiformis (Westend.) Niessl Stripe Smut of Grasses<br />
Ustilago salvei Berkeley & Broome, 1850.^<br />
' Berkeley & Broome (Notices of British Fungi, No. 482) described V. salvei on Dactylia<br />
glomerata collected by Rev. T. Salwey, St. Martin's, Guernsey. De Toni {Sacc. Syll., va,<br />
p. 485, 1888) listed U. salvei as a synonym of U. striiformis, and Liro (1922) used the name<br />
for a smut on D. glomerata which he considered to be distinct from V. striiformis. Examination<br />
of the Berkeley and Broome type in Herb. Kew. shows the host to be Holcus lanatus<br />
and the fungus to be V. striiformis. As the niles stand at present XJ. salvei Berk. & Br.<br />
appears to be the valid name for the fungus now widely known as V. striiformis, but we agree<br />
with Stevenson (Plant Dis. Beptr, xxx, p. 53,1946) in not advocating the adoption of the<br />
former name.
68 THE BRITISH SMTJT FUNGI<br />
Uredo striaeformis Westendorp, Bull. Acad. roy. Bdg.j xviii, p. 406, 1852.<br />
Ustilago striaeformis (Westend.) Niessl, Hedtoigia, xv, p. 1, 1876.<br />
Tilletia de baryana Fischer von Waldheim, 1867, fide ^e Toni, 1888.<br />
Tilletia striaeformis (Westend.) Saccardo, 1877 [as 'T. striaeformis (Westend.)<br />
Niessl'].<br />
Sori in the leaves forming longitudinal raised streaks at first covered by the<br />
epidermis which ruptures to expose the spores, the leaves spHtting into ribbons<br />
(Plate I, Kg. 3); rarely in the stems and inflorescences. Spore mass powdery,<br />
dark brown. Spores spherical to ellipsoidal, yellow-brown, echinulate, 9-14<br />
(av. 10-5-11-5) /i diam. - v<br />
On Arrhenatherum elatiiis, Dactylis glomerata, Deschampsia caespitosa, Festuca<br />
ovina, F. rubra, Holcus lanatus, H. mollis, Lolium perenne, Phalaris arundinacea,<br />
Phleum pratense, and Poa pratensis.<br />
May-Sept. Widespread. • Common.<br />
Exsiccati: Cooke, Fungi. Brit. Exsicc, i, 57; Vize, Fungi Brit., 133; Vize, Micro.<br />
Fungi Brit., 222.<br />
Spore germination. Spores of this species do not always germinate readily (see<br />
p. 18). Clinton (1900) germinated the spores, but the first clear figures of germination<br />
were those of Osner (1916) who obtained the best results with spores<br />
from Agrostis sp. Many media were tried, but the character of the medium did<br />
not affect the number of spores germinating or the method of growth. The<br />
promycelia became septate as the protoplasm collected towards the tips.<br />
Irregular branching often occurred without fusions, but some spores were found<br />
with simple, septate promycelia having clarnp-connexions between the cells<br />
(Fig. 2 h). Davis (1924) obtained somewhat similar results with spores from<br />
timothy, bent, and cocksfoot, the promycelia branching in a manner resembling<br />
U. nuda. Typical sporidia were rarely produced, but under some conditions<br />
short, uninucleate fragments did separate from the promycehum. Kreitlow<br />
(1943 a) figured branched promycelia in a form collected on Agrostis. Fischer<br />
(1940 a) collected a new race (f, hordei) on Agropyron paucijiorum and Elymus<br />
glaucus which germinated without a rest period, developed two or three promycelia<br />
from each spore, and budded off eUiptical sporidia which fused on nutrient<br />
agar. They were compatible with appropriate sporidia of U. bullata. Branched<br />
promycelia developed from chlamydospores of the form from Poa pratensis and<br />
gave rise on agar, to two types of colony, one breaking up into fragments, the<br />
other mycelial. Some cultures of each type developed chlamydospores and these,<br />
though slightly abnormal in size and shape, germinated like those from the host<br />
(Leach, Lowther, & Ryan, 1946; Leach & Ryan, 1946). See also Thirumalachar<br />
& Dickson, 1947.<br />
Infection of the host occurs through the young coleoptile and tiller buds. Contaminated<br />
seed of Poa pratensis gave only a low percentage (0 to 3 per cent.) of<br />
infection but high figures were obtained by sowing seed in inoculated soil and<br />
by injecting chlamydospores into the stem near the growing point. The disease<br />
was slow to develop; in some plants 300 days elapsed before sori appeared.<br />
Experiments showed that inoculum can persist in the soil under greenhouse<br />
conditions for 256 days (Leach, Lowther, & Ryan, 1946). Liro (1924) using spore
THE BRITISH SMUT FUlJGI 69<br />
material from AlopexMrus pratensis, Deschampsia caespitosa, and Dactylis<br />
glomerata infected the hosts named by sowing contaminated seed. Negative<br />
results were obtained with other grasses. Davis (1926) showed that stripe smut<br />
infects Phleum pratense at the seedling stage. The disease wiU persist for several<br />
years in perennial grasses, but infected plants tend to die under adverse conditions<br />
such as drought (Leach, Lowther, & Ryan, 1946).<br />
Bacial specialization. This species has been variously subdivided by Liro (1924),<br />
Ciferri (1938), Fischer (1940 a), and other workers an(i in this country it has been<br />
confused with the closely related but possibly distinct U. macrospora (q.v.). A<br />
stripe smut with larger spores (14-17 n) on Phalaris has been distinguished as<br />
U. echinata Schroet. but the one British collection (Sridge of Dun, Angus, coll.<br />
R. W. G. Dennis, 26.vii.43, Herb. Kew.) of stripe smut of this host examined does<br />
not differ morphologically from U. striiformis.<br />
Ustilago macrospora Desm.<br />
Ustilago macrospora Desmazieres, PI. Crypt, franc. No. 2127, 1850.<br />
Differs from TJ. striiformis (q.v.) in the spores \\rhich are spherical to ellipsoidal<br />
but frequently somewhat elongated or angular, yeUow-hrown, coarseJj<br />
echinulate or verrucose to papillate, at times somewhat reticulate or striate,<br />
11-18 (av. 13-5-14-5) [j. diam.<br />
On Agropyron repens, A. junceum, Bromus erectus, and Calamagrostis canescetis.<br />
May-Aug. England (Norfolk, Surrey), Guernsey, S(>otland.<br />
The first British record is by V. J. Chapman (Tratis. Norf. Nonvich Nat. Sac,<br />
xiii, p. 302, 1932) on A. junceum, Scolt Head, Norfolk [Herb. Kew.].<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.<br />
Racial specialization. It is doubtful if the stripe smut of Calamagrostis distinguished<br />
as U. calamagrostis (Fuckel) Clinton is a morphologically distinct species.<br />
The one British collection (Wheatfen Broad, Norfolk, coU. E. A. ElHs, 9.vu.44,<br />
Herb. I.M.I. 32329) on C. canescens does not differ from U. macrospora from<br />
other grasses in this country.<br />
*** Spores reticulate<br />
Ustilago vinosa Tul.<br />
Uredo vinosa Berkeley in litt. to Tulasne [nom. nud.].<br />
Ustilago vinosa Tulasne, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot., Ser. 3, vii, p. 96,1847.<br />
Sori involving the flower parts within the perianth, which is frequently inflated.<br />
Spore mass powdery, pinkish purple. Spores globose to sub-globose, tinted<br />
violet, delicately reticulate (reticulations 1-0 fi or slightly less in diam.), 6-10<br />
(mostly 7-8) n diam. [Type specimen in Herb. Kew.]<br />
On Oxyria digyna.<br />
July. England (Cumber!.), Scotland (Forfarshire). Uncommon.<br />
Spore germination. Sporidia develop from a four-celled promycelium, bud, and<br />
fuse readily in nutrient solution (Brefeld, 1883).<br />
Infection of the host. Unknown. Mycelium is said to be perennial in the root<br />
stock (Schellenberg, 1911).
70 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Ustilago violacea (Pers.) Fuckel<br />
Uredo violacea Persoon \pisp. Meih. Fung., p. 57, 1797] ex Persoon, Synopsis,<br />
p. 225, 1801. '<br />
Farinaria stellariae Sowerby, 1803, fide Fries, 1832. ,<br />
Uredo antherarum de CandoUe, 1815 [nov. nom. for U\ violacea Pers.].<br />
Ustilago antherarum (DC.) Fries, 1832.<br />
Ustilago violacea (Pers.) Fuckel, Symb. mycol., p. 39, 1869 [as '(Pers.) Tul.'].<br />
8ori in the anthers (Plate II, Fig. 2). Spore mass powdery, pinkish purple. Spores<br />
spherical or sub-spherical to elUpsoidal, tinted pa-le violet or almost hyahne,<br />
delicately reticulate (reticulations about 1 fj. diain.) 5-12 (av. 7-8) /A diam.<br />
On Cerastium viscosum, Cucubalus baccifer, Dianthtts caryophyllus (cultivated<br />
carnation). Lychnis flos-cuculi, Melandrium album, M. dioicum, Silene acaulis,<br />
S. alsine, S. cucubalus, S. maritima, S. otites, Stellaria graminea, and S. holostea.<br />
May to October (and at other times on carnations under glass). Widespread.<br />
Common.<br />
Exsiccati: Cooke, Fungi. Brit. Exsicc, ii, 427; Vize, Fungi Brit., 34; Vize,<br />
Micro. Fungi Brit., 569.<br />
Spore germination. Spores of this species germinate easily when fresh and remain<br />
viable for some time. Tulasne (1847) described the septate promycelium<br />
which falls somewhat easily from the spore. Schroeter (1877) described the<br />
sporidia from the smut on Dianthus carthusianorum as elliptic, often flattened on<br />
one side, 4x2-3 /x. Fischer von Waldheim (1869), Brefeld (1883), and Schellenberg<br />
(1911) also figured germination and it has been accepted as a type which<br />
like U. avenae readily produces a four-celled promycelium with sporidia sprouting<br />
from each cell. PlowTight (1889) germinated spores of the form known as<br />
U. major on Silene otites and Liro (1924) described fusion between sporidia in<br />
the form on Silene vulgaris [S. cucubalus]. According to Harper (1899) who<br />
studied nuclear division in the sporidia, one nucleus may remain in the spore<br />
and a second or third promycelium develop after the first has fallen off. Fusions<br />
readily occur in cultures several days old between appropriate cells of the promycelium,<br />
between these and sporidia, or among the sporidia and their progeny.<br />
Paravieini (1917) also figured fusions of uniaucleate sporidia. The classic work<br />
of Kniep (1919, 1928) which established heterothalHsm in the Ustilaginales was<br />
conducted on this species (see p. 29).<br />
Infection of the host. The fungus can infect the plant through seedlings, underground<br />
shoots, and axOlary buds (Hecke, 1907,1926; Werth, 1913; Zfilig, 1921;<br />
Liro, 1924). It is apparently not carried by the seed as in loose smut of wheat,<br />
but if spores are sown on the ovaries of healthy flowers the fungus will invade the<br />
plant and a few months later the newly formed blossoms haye infected anthers.<br />
When female plants are attacked, the flower develops on a longer floral axis and<br />
has a cylindrical calyx more like that of the male. Stamens which would<br />
normally remain rudimentary develop and contain chlamydospores as on infected<br />
male plants (Werth, 1913, Fig. 1).<br />
Racial specialization. ZilHg (1921) recognized eight physiologic races of anther<br />
smut and showed that the fungus would not pass between two such closely<br />
related hosts as Melandrium album and M. dioicum. Liro (1924) tabulated the
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 71<br />
results of many infection experiments and gave specific rank to eleven forms of<br />
anther smut on members of Caryophyllaceae (see also CSferri, 1938).<br />
The anther smut of Silene otites has been distinguished as U. major Schroet. on<br />
account of its larger spores, but as the spore size (8-10 /x) in the one British<br />
collection (Vize, Micro. Fungi Brit., 569) examined on this host fell within the<br />
range of variation shown by collections from other hosts of the same and different<br />
genera, this distinction is not made here.<br />
Ustilago scabiosae (Sow.) Winter<br />
Farinaria scabiosae Sowerby, Engl. Fungi, Tab. 396, Fig. 2, 1803.<br />
Ustilago scabiosae (Sow.) Winter, Hedwigia, xix, p. 159, 1880.<br />
Sori in the anthers. Spore mass powdery. Honey Colour (Ridgway), filling the<br />
florets and giving the flower heads a dusty appearance. Spores globose to subglobose,<br />
tinted pale yellow, wall about 2 [j, thick, epispore hyaline, reticulate<br />
(reticulations up to 1-0 jn diam.), 8-11 [i diam.<br />
On Knautia arvensis.<br />
July-Aug. Widespread. • Fairly Common.<br />
Exsiccati: Vize, Fungi Brit., 566 (as U. flosculorum var. succissae).<br />
Spore germination. Germination has been figured by Fischer von Waldheim<br />
(1869), Schroeter (1877), Brefeld (1883), Plowright (1889), and Harper (1899)<br />
(Fig. 2 j). According to Schroeter (1877) the triseptate promyceUa (16-20 X 5-6) fj.<br />
produced shortly ovate sporidia which tended to become round (about 6 /ii) later.<br />
PromyceUa often feU away from the spores. Budding in nutrient solution was<br />
described as particularly profuse by Brefeld (1883) and the sporidia were nearly<br />
spherical (4-5 X 4 /x). Harper (1899) described the passage of the chlamydospore<br />
nucleus into the promycelium and its division when the promycelium has attained<br />
one-third of its mature length. Paravicini (1917) figured the fusion of sporidia.<br />
Infection of the host. Experiments by Liro (1924) suggest that seedKngs and<br />
underground parts of mature plants can be invaded by this smut.<br />
Ustilago succisae Magn.<br />
Ustilago succisae P. Magnus, Hedwigia, xiv, p. 17, 1875.<br />
Sori in the anthers. Spore mass granular to powdery, white or cream. Spores<br />
globose to sub-globose, colourless, wall 2^7i thick, epispore hyaline, reticulate<br />
(reticulations up to 1-0 /x diam.), 11-14 fi diam.<br />
On Succisa pratensis.<br />
Aug.-Oct. Widespread. Common.<br />
Spore germination. Magnus (1875) observed germination in September and<br />
December. Sporidia were budded oif terminally and laterally from the fourcelled<br />
promyceUa at first singly and later in groups of three. Budding occurred<br />
before and after the sporidia became detached. Fusions were not observed.<br />
Ustilago flosculorum (DC.) Fr.<br />
Uredo flosculorum de CandoUe, Flor. franc, vi, p. 79, 1815.<br />
Ustilago flosculorum (DC.) Fries, Systema, iii, p. 518, 1832.<br />
Sori in the anthers. Spore mass powdery. Brown Vinaceous (Ridgway). Spores
72 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
glotose to sub-globose or ovoid, light brown tinged with violet, wall 2 [J, thick.<br />
Epispore hyaline or tinted, reticulate (reticulations l'5-2-0 IJ. diam.), 12-16 ft<br />
diam.<br />
On Knautia arvensis. ' ,<br />
July. England (Yorks.), Scotland (Fife): Uncommon.<br />
Spore germination. Unknown. Some of the records for U: scabiosae may refer to<br />
this species.<br />
Ustilago utriculosa (Nees) Tul.<br />
Caeoma utriculosa Nees, Syst. Pilze, i, p. 14, 1817.<br />
Ustilago utriculosa (Nees) Tulasne, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot., Ser. 3, vii, p. 102, 1847.<br />
Sori in the flowers inflating the ovaries and involving the filaments of the<br />
stamens, about 2-3 mm. long. Spore mass powdery,<br />
brownish violet. Spores globose to sub-globose, violet<br />
when fresh, brownish violet when dry, with prominent<br />
reticulations (2 to 3-4 /Lt wide, 1-5-2 y. deep),<br />
11-14/^ diam. (Fig. 4:b).<br />
On Polygonum lapathifolium and Polygonum sp.<br />
Aug .-Sept. Yorks.<br />
Exsiccati: Vize, Micro. Fungi, 132.<br />
This species is similar to U. anomala (q.v.).with<br />
FIG. 4. o. Ustilago anomala. '^^^^^ i* has been confused. It appears to be of less<br />
Spores from type collection, frequent Occurrence in Great Britain than 17. anomala.<br />
x500. 6. U. utriculosa.<br />
Spores. x500. Spore germination. The four-celled promycehum bears<br />
apical and lateral sporidia which produce secondary<br />
sporidia by budding or germ-tubes. No sporidial or hyphal fusions were observed<br />
by Brefeld (1895) or by Fischer & Hirschhorn (1945 a), but Liro (1924, p. 208)<br />
who germinated spores of this species and of U. anomala records the fusion of<br />
sporidia still attached to the promycelium. Infection of the host occurs at the<br />
seedling stage.<br />
Physiologic races. The net-spored smuts attacking species of Polygonum can be<br />
subdivided into physiologic races some of which diifer slightly in size of spore.<br />
Several races have been given specific rank (Liro, 1924; Ciferri, 1938).<br />
Ustilago anomala Kunze<br />
Ustilago anomala J. Kunze, Fungi select, exsicc, No. 23, 1875.<br />
Similar to U. utriculosa (q.v.) from which it differs in the globose, sub-globose,<br />
or ovoid spores having more delicate reticulations (up to 2 /x wide, about 1 ft<br />
deep) (Fig. 4 a).<br />
On Polygonum convolvulus, P. hydropiper, and P. persicaria.<br />
Aug.-Oct. Widespread. Fairly common.<br />
Spore germination has been described by Schroeter (1877) and Brefeld (1895).<br />
Germination occurs in the spring after overwintering when sporidia are produced<br />
on a four-celled promycelium. The sporidia after fusing in pairs become<br />
detached from the promycehum and then produce germ-tubes or, in nutrient<br />
splution, bud off secondary sporidia to give yeast-like colonies.
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 73<br />
TTstilago tragopogonis-pratensis (Pers.) Roussel<br />
[Uredo tragopogi Persoon, 1797.]<br />
Uredo tragopogi pratensis Persoon, Synopsis, p. 225, 1801.<br />
Ustilago tragopogi pratensis Roussel, Flor. Calvados, p. 47, 1806.<br />
Uredo receptaculorum de CandoIIe, 1808, p.p.<br />
Uredo receptaculorum tragopogi de Candolle, 1815, fide de CandoUe, 1815.<br />
Ustilago receptaculorum (DC.) Fries, 1832.<br />
Ustilago tragopogi de Toni, 1888 [as '(Pers.) Schroet.'].<br />
Sori in the inflorescence destroying the florets. Spore mass powdery, dark<br />
purple. Spores globose or sub-globose to slightly elongated, pale violet, delicately<br />
reticulate (reticulations 1-2 /i diam.), 12-14 /A diam.<br />
On Tragopogon pratensis and T. porrifolius (salsify).<br />
May-June. Widespread.<br />
Exsiccati: Cooke, Fungi. Brit. Exsicc., i, 59; ii, 434; Vize, Fungi Brit., 134.<br />
Spore germination has been figured by Tulasne (1854) (Fig. 2 c), de Bary (1866),<br />
Fischer von Waldheim (1869), and Brefeld (1883). The sporidia arising from the<br />
four-ceUed promycelium are long, almost rod-shaped, 14-24 X 2-5-4-5 /i (Fischer<br />
von Waldheim), 18-22 x 2-5-3 /x (Liro, 1924). They usually bend so that the long<br />
axis is parallel with the promycelium and fuse readily either before or after<br />
detachment. Paravicini (1917) figured the fusion of eUiptical uninucleate<br />
sporidia. Tulasne (1854) germinated the nearly related small spored species on<br />
Scorzonera. The sporidia were very small and oblong and budded profusely.<br />
Fusions were not observed. Brefeld (1883) agreed with Tulasne but Paravicini<br />
(1917) claims to have found fusions in old cultures.<br />
Infection of the host. Liro (1924) showed experimentally that this smut is seedborne.<br />
He failed to get conclusive evidence on the exact mode of transmission<br />
but suggests that flower infection may occur as in loose smut of wheat.<br />
Ustilago kuebneana Wolff<br />
Ustilago kuhneana Wolff, Bot. Zeit., xxxu, p. 815, 1874.<br />
Sori in the inflated ovaries or anthers; itt-'the stems, especially the upper<br />
branches of the inflorescence, as spot-like or elongated blisters which burst to<br />
give spore-filled lesions; less frequently, in the leaves. Spore mass powdery,<br />
pinkish purple. Spores spherical, pale yellow or yellowish brown tinged with<br />
purple, reticulate, 12-20 (av. 13-16 or occasionally more) /x diam.<br />
On Eumex acetosa, B. acetosella, and B. crispus.<br />
June-Sept. England, Scotland. Fairly Common.<br />
Exsiccati: Cooke, Fungi Brit. Exsicc., ii, 436.<br />
Spore germination. Wolff (1874 b) germinated the spores on water and obtained<br />
a three or four-celled promycelium with lemon-shaped sporidia which were not<br />
seen to fuse. Brefeld (1883) figured the sporidia in whorls at each septum. In<br />
nutrient solution they budded profusely and fusions were observed.
FIG. 5. Spore germination in Farysia, Sphacelotheca, Cintractia, and Thecaphora.<br />
o. F. oUvacea. (Yen, 1938); 6. S. hydropiperis. X 300 (Brefeld, 1895); c. C. siibinclusa. x 300<br />
(Brefeld, 1895); d. O. carieis. X 150 (Brefeld, 1895); e. C. karii. x225 (PohjakalUo, 1935);<br />
/. T. deformans (as T. lathyri). x 150 (Brefeld, 1883); g. T. seminis-convolvuli (as T. hyalma).<br />
X520 (Woronin, 1882).
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 75<br />
Species incertae sedis<br />
Ustilago maxina Dur. d. Maisonn.<br />
Ustilago marina Durieu de Maisonneuve in Tulasne, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot., Ser. 5,<br />
V, p. 134, 1886.<br />
8
76 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Yen (1938) obtained germination in 12 hours in sterile water, carrot juice, and<br />
beerwort. Sporidia were normally budded off'directly from the spore. Sometimes<br />
a longer tube was formed which became detached, divided into two cells,<br />
and budded off sporidia (Fig. 4 a). The method of growth is said to be identical<br />
with that of U. longissima var. macrospora as described by Bauch (1923).<br />
SPHACELOTHEOA de Bary,<br />
Vergl Morph. Biol. Pilze, p. 187, 1884.<br />
Type: Sphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schum.) de Bary on Polygonum hydropiper.<br />
Synonym: Bndothlaspis Sorokin, 1890.<br />
Sori in the inflorescence, frequently confined to the ovaries, each Umited by a<br />
definite false membrane of colourless, sterile, fungus cells. (Spore mass powdery,<br />
dark in colour, surrounding a central columella (usually of host tissue). Spores<br />
single. Spore germination, see below.<br />
Sphacelotheca destraens (Schlecht.) Stev. & A. G. Johns. Millet Smut<br />
Caeoma destruens Schlechtendal, Flor. berol., ii, p. 130, 1830.<br />
Uredo segetum var. panici-miliacea Persoon, 1801.<br />
Ustilago panici-miliacea (Pers.) Winter, 1884'.<br />
Sphacelotheca panici-miliacea (Pers.) Bubak, 1912.<br />
Sphacelotheca destruens (Schlecht.) Stevenson & A. G. Johnson, Phytopathology,<br />
xxxiv, p. 613, 1944.<br />
Sori destroying the inflorescence, 7-5 cm. long, at first covered by a whitish<br />
membrane of fungus tissue which ruptures irregularly to expose the spore mass<br />
which is traversed longitudinally by numerous strands of host vascular tissue.<br />
Spore mass powdery, dark brown. Spores globose to sub-globose, light brown,<br />
apparently smooth but under oil immersion obscurely punctate, 7-11 ja diam.<br />
On Panicum miliaceum.<br />
Billing, Northants., Sept. 1944, E. F. Hurt (Herb. Path. Lab. No. 164).<br />
Spore germination. The spores germinate in autumn and in spring of the following<br />
year. Some were viable in collections eight years old. On water they formed<br />
a four-celled promyceHum with fusions between adjacent and distant cells. On<br />
nutrient solution sporidia (10-15 X 3-5 /a) were budded off from the promycelium,<br />
while in older cultures sporidia germinated and formed aerial mycelium and<br />
chains of aerial sporidia (Brefeld, 1883). Vasey (1918) obtained abundant<br />
sporidia from spores germinating in water. On nutrient agar at room temperature<br />
ovoid to elliptical sporidia were produced on a four-celled promycelium<br />
(Fischer & Hirschhom, 1945 a).<br />
Infection of the host takes place on germination of the seed before the seedlings<br />
are three in. high (Vasey, 1918). This is confirmed by the fact that the smut can<br />
be controlled by seed treatments (Yatz3niina, 1927).<br />
Sphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schum.) de Bary<br />
Uredo hydropiperis Schumacher, Enum. A. Saell., ii, p. 234, 1803.<br />
Ustilago candollei Tulasne, 1847, p.p.
" TJSE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 77<br />
Ustilago hydropiperis (Schum.) Schroeter, 1877.<br />
Sphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schum.) de Bary, Vergl. Morph. Biol. Pilze, p. 187,<br />
1884.<br />
Sori in the flowers, replacing the ovaries and projecting from the perianths,<br />
each covered by a greyish false memljrane of globose to ^~.<br />
polygonal, hyaline or slightly tinted cells, mostly 8-14 but /^ SiU)<br />
up to 24 ju, diam., which disintegrates from the apex to<br />
expose the spores. Spore mass powdery, purplish black,<br />
surrounding an unbranched central columella which re- pjQ. 7. Sphacelotheca<br />
mains after the spores have been dispersed. Spores globose, hydropiperis. Spores.<br />
purplish, apparently smooth but when examined under an<br />
oil immersion objective seen to be abundantly verrucose, 10-14 fi diam. (Fig. 7).<br />
On Polygonum hydropiper.<br />
Sept.-Oct. Widespread. Common.<br />
Exsiccati: Cooke, Fungi Brit, exsicc., i, 58 (as U. utriculosa), 59; ii, 72; Vize,<br />
Micro. Fungi, 134.<br />
Spore germination. Schroeter (1887) described, but did not figure, germination.<br />
The promycelium became four-celled and formed eUiptical sporidia, which fused<br />
in pairs at the base. Brefeld (1895) figured germination of the same type but<br />
without the fusion of sporidia (Fig. 5 6). Boss (1927) also failed to find fusions.<br />
Infection of the host. Liro (1924) sowed, in the autumn, seeds of several species of<br />
Polygonum together with spores of this species. They were left covered with a<br />
thin layer of soil in the open until the following year. P. hydropiperis gave the<br />
highest infection in all experiments but P. persicaria and several other species<br />
were readily infected. Some species of Polygonum were immune. (See Liro,<br />
1924, p. 141.)<br />
Sphacelotheca inflorescentiae (Trel.) Jaap<br />
Uredo bistortarum y ustilaginea de Candolle, 1816 fide Liro, 1921.<br />
Ustilago bistortarum (DC.) Korn. var. inflorescentiae Trelease in Harriman<br />
Alaska Exped., Crypt. Bot., v, p. 35, 1904.<br />
Ustilago inflorescentiae (Trel.) Maire, July-Aug., 1907.<br />
Sphacelotheca polygoni-vivipari Schellenberg, Oct., 1907 [nom. nov. for U.<br />
bistortarum var. inflorescentiae]. •<br />
Sphacelotheca inflorescentiae (Trel.) Jaap, Ann. mycol., Berl., v, p. 194, 1908.<br />
Ustilago ustilaginea (DC.) Liro, 1921.<br />
Sphacelotheca ustilaginea (DC.) Ciferri, 1938.<br />
Sori in the bulbils of the inflorescence. Spore mass granular, purpUsh black,<br />
surrounding a short columefla of host tissue. Spores globose to ellipsoidal, violet<br />
to brownish violet, distinctly but minutely and densely verrucose, 11-16 /x diam.<br />
On Polygonum viviparum.<br />
Scotland: Ben Lui (June, 1914) and Ben Ledi (June, 1921), Perthshire (Malcolm<br />
Wilson, Trans. Brit, mycol., Soc, ix, p. 143, 1924).<br />
Spore germination,. Schellenberg (1907) has described and figured the germination.<br />
The promycelium has three to five cross-walls, seldom more, on which
78 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
ovoid sporidia are borne at the apex and at the septa-. The basal cell of the<br />
promycelium becomes empty. Conjugation between sporidia was not observed<br />
but they were seen to bud off secondary sporidia. I<br />
Infection of the host probably takes place through the bulbils (ScheUenberg,<br />
1907). ''<br />
It is rather doubtful whether this smut, which shows affinities to S. hydropiperis<br />
and Ustilago bistortarum, should be treated as a distinct species. The<br />
spores of the Ben Lui material differ from those of S. hydropiperis in being<br />
clearly verrucose without resort to an oil immersion objective but the presence<br />
of a false membrane within the covering of host tissue could not be established.<br />
Fischer & Hirschhorn (1945 a) list U. bistortarum var. injiorescentiae as a<br />
synonym of S. hydropiperis. Through the kindness of Dr. L. Zundel, a fragment<br />
of the type specimen of U. bistortarum var. inflorescentiae [Herb. I.M.I. 19826]<br />
was obtained. It has clearly verrucose spores.<br />
CniTEACTiA Comu,<br />
Ann. Sci. nat., Bot., Ser. 6, xv, p. 279, 1883.<br />
Type: Cintractia axicola (Berk.) Cornu on Fimbristylis annua var. diphylla.<br />
North America.<br />
Synonym: Anthracoidea Brefeld, 1895.<br />
Sori in various parts of the host, especially the ovaries. Spore mass agglutinated,<br />
black, surrounding a central columella of host tissue. Spore development centripetal.<br />
Spores single, medium or large in size. Spore germination see p. 79. .<br />
Usually on Cyperaceae.<br />
Cintractia caricis (Pers.) Magn.<br />
Uredo caricis Persoon, Synopsis, p. 225, 1801.<br />
Farinaria carbonaria Sowerby, 1803.<br />
Uredo urceolorum de CandoUe, 1815 [nov. nom. for U. caricis Pers.].<br />
Caeoma urceolorum (DC.) Schlechtendal, 1824.<br />
Ustilago caricis (Pers.) Unger, 1836.<br />
Ustilago urceolorum (DC.) Tulasne, 1847.<br />
Anthracoidea carycis (Pers.) Brefeld, 1895.<br />
Cintractia caricis (Pers.) Magnus, Abh. bot. Ver. Brandenb., xxxvii, p. 78, 1896.<br />
Scyri in the spikelets replacing the ovaries, usually partly hidden by the glumes,<br />
globose or somewhat elongated, about 2-3 mm. diam.,<br />
each covered by a thin grey false membrane which soon<br />
disintegrates. Spore mass firmly agglutinated, sometimes<br />
becoming powdery, black, weathering away to<br />
expose a central columella of host tissue. Spores round,<br />
oval, or polygonal in surface view, navicular in side<br />
^"'•Spore^*'^>f500^"*''^' ^ew, sometimes attached to the remains of semigelatinized<br />
hyphae, dark brown, frequently almost<br />
opaque, smooth or granular to distinctly but very minutely verrucose, 14-24 /tt<br />
diam. (Fig. 8).
THE BKITISH SMUT FUNGI 79<br />
On Carex arenaria, G. bigelowii, C. capilUtris, C.fiacca, C. nigra, C.panicea, and<br />
C. pulicaris [Plowright (1889) also gives C. praecox [G. caryophyllea], G. stdlatula<br />
[G. echinata], G. dioica,, G. pseudocyperus, and C. hirta]; Ehynchospora<br />
alba; Scirpus caespitosus.<br />
June-Sept. Widespread.<br />
Exsiccati: (as Ustilago urceolorum) Cooke, Fungi Brit. Exsicc., i, 541 (on Scirpus<br />
caespitosus (see Sadler, Trans. Proc. Edinh. hot. Soc, xi, p. 469, 1873); Vize,<br />
Micro. Fungi Brit., 131 (on Garex flacca).<br />
Spore germination. Brefeld (1895) obtained germination in spring'from spores<br />
which had been lying in damp soil since the previous season. The relatively<br />
thick promycelium became empty and septate in the older part, branched above<br />
the surface of the water and cut off oval sporidia which fell off and germinated<br />
to form mycelium (Fig. 5 d).<br />
A number of different species of Gintractia have been distinguished on Garex<br />
(seeLiro, 1938) and the forms on Ehynchospora and Scirpus are sometimes<br />
designated G. montagnei (Tul.) Magn. and C. scirpi (Kiihn) Schellenb., respectively.<br />
Of the British collections examined, only those of G. subinclusa (see<br />
below), with its coarsely warted spores, could invariably be distinguished morphologically<br />
from G. caricis.<br />
Cintraetia subinclusa (Korn.) Magn.<br />
Ustilago subinclusa Kornicke, Hedwigia, xiii, p. 159, 1874.<br />
Anthracoidea subinclusa (Korn.) Brefeld, 1895.<br />
Gintractia subinclusa (Korn.) Magnus, Abh. bot. Ver. Brandenb., xxxvii, p. 79,<br />
1896.<br />
Sori in the spikelets replacing the ovaries, partly hidden by the glumes, globose,<br />
3-4 mm. diam., each at first covered by a thin grey false membrane. Spore mass<br />
agglutinated, black, surrounding a central columella of host tissue. Spores<br />
globose, ellipsoidal, or somewhat elongated, dark brown with hyahne to tinted<br />
coarse wart-like projections, 12-20 ju. diam.<br />
On Garex riparia. -'* *<br />
Warwicks., Bradnocks Marsh (June, 1920), Hampton-in-Arden (June, 1922),<br />
near Tanworth Grove (see J. Bot., Lond., Ix, p. 168, 1922); Norfolk.<br />
Exsiccati: Berkeley, Brit. Fungi, 114 (as Uredo urceolorum).<br />
Spore germination is, according to Brefeld (1895), very similar to that of G.<br />
caricis, but the sporidia tend to be produced singly or in twos at the tips of the<br />
promycehal branches rather than in twos or threes (Fig. 5 c) as in C. caricis.<br />
Pohjakallio (1935) described the germination in G. karii Liro from Garex<br />
brunnescens (Pers.) Pon. The promycelia were often dilated at the apex and the<br />
sporidia developed on short sterigmata (Fig. 5 e). Gintractia pratensis Sydow<br />
from Garex recurva Huds. was studied by Cocconi (1893). Sporidia were lateral<br />
on a simple promycelium and budded in the medium.
80 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
THECAPHOEA Fingerhuth,<br />
Linnaea, x, p. 230, 1836<br />
Type: Themphora hyalina Fingerli. [= T. seminis-convolvuli] on Convolvulus<br />
sepium, Europe.<br />
Synonym: PoiMlosporium Dietel, 1897.<br />
Sori frequently in the inflorescence. Spore mass powdery. Spore balls composed<br />
of few to numerous rather permanently united spores. Spores yellowish to<br />
reddish, adjacent sides flat and smooth, free surfaces rounded and variously<br />
ornamented. Spore germination, see below. '<br />
Thecapbora deformans Tul.<br />
Thecaphora deformans Durier & Montagne ex Tulasne, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot., Ser. 3,<br />
vii, p. 110, 1847.<br />
Thecaphora lathyri Kiihn, 1873, fide Clinton, 1904.<br />
Sori in the seeds. Spore mass granular, reddish brown. Spore halls globose to<br />
ellipsoidal, reddish brown, rather permanent, 20-60 p, diam., each composed of<br />
five to more than 20 spores. Spores globose or variously angled, contiguous<br />
surfaces flat and smooth, free surfaces rounded and coarsely verrucose, 10-18 [i<br />
diam. ^<br />
On Lathyrus pratensis.<br />
Scotland: Edinburgh, Sept., 1923, M. Drummond (WUson, Tran^. Brit, mycol.<br />
Soc, ix, p. 144, 1924, as T. lathyri); Drem, E. Lothian, Aug., 1929, Malcolm<br />
Wilson.<br />
Spore germination. Brefeld (1883) found the spores of this species, which he<br />
studied as T. lathyri, to be viable throughout the year. After three weeks septate<br />
promyceUa, emerging from the water, produced terminal cylindrical sporidia,<br />
15-25 X 3-5 fji, which gave rise in nutrient media to a richly branched mycelium<br />
bearing sporidia on small sporidiophores (Fig. 5/).<br />
CHnton (1904) concluded that there is'no reliable basis for distinguishing<br />
T. lathyri and other species described in legumes from T.. deformans and an<br />
examination of representative material has confirmed this conclusion. T. deformans<br />
differs from T. seminis-convolvuli in the larger spore balls composed of<br />
more numerous spores.<br />
Thecaphora seminis-convolvuli (Duby) Liro<br />
Uredo seminis-convolvuli Duby, Bot. gall., ii, p. 901, 1830.<br />
Thecaphora hyalina Fingerhuth, 1836.<br />
Thecaphora seminis-convolvuli (Duby) Liro, Die Ustilagineen Finnlands, p. 59,<br />
1935.<br />
Sori in the seeds. Spore mass granular, reddish brown. Spore balls irregularly<br />
globose, 10-30 fj. diam., each composed of 3-10 spores. Spores globose, contiguous<br />
surfaces flat and smooth, free surfaces rounded and coarsely verrucose,<br />
pale yellow, 12-16 (occasionally up to 20) fi diam. (Fig. 8).<br />
On Convolvulus arvensis, Calystegia sepium, G. soldanella.<br />
Aug.-Sept. Norfolk, Devon, Wilts. Uncommon.
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.
FIG. 10. Spoie germination in Tilletia and Melanotaenium. a. T. decipiens. x 350 (Brefeld,<br />
1895); 6. M. cingens. x 350 (Brefeld, 1895); c. M. endogenum. Spores and mycelium, x 520<br />
(Woronin, 1882); d. M. cingens. X 520 (Woronin, 1882); e. T. caries, x 660 (Buller, 1933);<br />
/. T. caries. Discharge of allantoid sporidia. X 767 (Buller, 1933).
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 83<br />
Tilletia caries (DC.) Tul. Wheat Bunt<br />
[Lycoperdon tritici Bjerkander, 1775.]<br />
Uredo caries de Candolle, Flor. franc, vi, p. 78, 1815.<br />
Tilletia caries (DC.) Tulasne, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot., Ser. 3, vii, p. 113, 1847.<br />
Tilletia tritici (Bjerk.) WolflF, 1874.<br />
{Fusisporium inosculans Berkeley, J. hort. Soc, ii, p. 114, 1847 is based on the<br />
secondary sporidia of T. caries.)<br />
Sori in the ovaries filling the grain with spores, partly hidden by the glumes,<br />
4-7 mm. long. Spore mass powdery, dark brown to black, foetid when crushed.<br />
Sterile cells (intermixed with spores) globose, hyaline,<br />
smooth or indistinctly reticulate, 12-17 /x diam. Spores<br />
globose to sub-globose, pale brown, reticulate (reticulations<br />
2-4 (mostly 2-5-3-5) /x wide, 0-5-1-0 /x deep), 14-20 fj.<br />
diam. (Fig. 11).<br />
On Wheat (Triticum) and Rye (Secale) causing Bunt KiQ. 11. Tilletia caries.<br />
July-Aug. England; less common in Scotland. Spores, x 500.<br />
Exsiccati: Cooke, Fungi Brit. Exsicc, i, 53; ii, 429; Vize, Micro. Fungi, 130.<br />
Bunt of rye, which has only been recorded twice in this country (Salop.,<br />
1917, Cambs., 1929, fide 'Moore, W. C, 1943, p. 10), was included in Tilletia<br />
separata Massee (1899) and is sometimes distinguished as T. secalis (Corda)<br />
Kiihn.<br />
Spore germination. Prevost (1807) first figured germination, showing promycelia<br />
with thin, terminal sporidia and the later formed allantoid sporidia.<br />
Berkeley (1847) discovered the fusion in pairs of the fihform sporidia and this<br />
was confirmed by Tulasne (1854), Fischer von Waldheim (1869), Kiihn (1858),<br />
Wolff (1874 a), Brefeld (1883, 1888), Plowright (1889), and others. The filiform<br />
sporidia, which arise as protuberances at the apex of the promycelium as soon<br />
as it reaches the air, are 8-12 in number, septate, and 80-100 ^i in length. The<br />
apex of the promycelium remains tuberculated after the sporidia have fallen<br />
(Fig. 10 e). The allantoid sporidia, which develop on short pointed sterigmata,<br />
from filiform sporidia or from mycelium (Fig. 10/) are forcibly discharged (see<br />
p. 23). In the related dwarf bunt (see p. 85) branched promyceUa are common<br />
and tlie terminal filiform sporidia arp verj? numerous as in species of Neovossia.<br />
Hulea (1947) made a detailed study of spore germination in some species of<br />
Tilletia on wheat in Rumania.<br />
Infection of the host occurs at the seedhng stage (Prevost, 1807; Kiihn, 1858).<br />
The progress of mycehum in the host has been described by Lang (1912) and<br />
Woolman (1930) (see p. 13). Factors influencing infection are surveyed in<br />
detail by Holton & Heald (1941).<br />
Racial specialization. Infection of genera other than Triticum. Aegilops cylindrica<br />
(Vavilov, .1918) and A. ventricosa (Gaiidineau, 1932; Reichert, 1931) have<br />
been infected experimentally by Tilletia caries. Twenty-one other species of<br />
Aegilops were immune from the races of bunt used by Reichert.<br />
Agropyron cristatum, A.pauciflorum, A. subsecundum, A. inerme, A. spicatum,<br />
A. trichophorum, Hordeum nodosum, and Sitanion jubatum were infected
84 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
artificially by Fischer (1936 a, 1939 b) using a mixture of several virulent races of<br />
T. caries and T. foetida. T. caries has been found on A. cristatum under field<br />
conditions in the State of Washington. Infected plants ire markedly stunted<br />
and predisposed to winter injury. Both T. caries and T. foetida can overwinter<br />
in perennial grasses but tend to disappear in time. ' |<br />
Rye-grasses were inoculated with a mixture of T. carie^ and T. foetida and<br />
bunt balls with smooth chlamydospores Uke T. foetida developed on Lolium<br />
multijlorum and on L. perenne (Bressman, 1932 a).<br />
Rye is susceptible to some races of both T. caries and T. foetida from wheat<br />
(Gaines & Stevenson, 1922, 1923; Schafer, 1923; Ducomet, 1927; Lobik, 1930<br />
Bressman, 1931; DiUon Weston, 1932; Nieves, 1933, 1935). Volkart (1939)<br />
accepts bunt of rye as a distinct species, T. secalis, on grounds of larger chlamydospores<br />
but most workers regard it as a race of T. caries.<br />
Infection of species of Triticum. Bressman (1932 b) found susceptible varieties<br />
in all classes of wheat irrespective of chromosome number. Among 13 species of<br />
Triticum tested for resistance to buht, T. vulgare is the most susceptible and<br />
T. timococcum, an experimentally produced amphidiploid (Kostoff, 1938), one<br />
of the most resistant (Holton & Heald, 1941), T. timopheevi (C.I. 11802) is<br />
resistant to each of the 31 races of bunt recognized in the United States<br />
(Rodenhiser & Holton, 1945) and has beeu'Used for breeding (Kostoff, 1938;<br />
Shands, 1941),<br />
Physiologic races. Evidence of racial specialization in Tilletia caries and T.<br />
foetens has been obtained in the United States (Rodenhiser & Stakman, 1927;<br />
Reed, 1928a; Gaines, 1928; Heald & Gaines, 1930; Holton, 1930-31; Bressman,<br />
1931,1932 b; Smith, 1932 b; Flor, 1933; Gaines & Smith, 1933; Melehers, 1934;<br />
Holton & Heald, 1936; Rodenhiser & Holton, 1937); in Bulgaria (Atanasoff,<br />
1929); in Palestine (Reichert, 1930 a, 1930 b); in Canada (Aamodt, 1931); in<br />
Great Britain (Dillon Weston, 1932); in Germany (Roemer & BarthoUy, 1933);<br />
in Argentine (Nieves, 1933,1935); in Rumania (Savelescu & Sandu-Ville, 1939);<br />
and in Australia (Churchward, 1938 a). Holton & Heald (1941) compiled tables<br />
showing the number of races recorded and the different systems used in their<br />
classification. The totals, 73 races of T. caries and 66 of T. foetida, doubtless<br />
include duplicates, since no standardized international method of identifying<br />
and describing races has been used.<br />
The most complete study of racial specialization in bunt has been made by<br />
Rodenhiser & Holton who have now distinguished 16 races of T. caries and 15<br />
races of T. foetida. The reactions of the differential hosts to these 31 races are<br />
given in table I of the latest paper which shows also the source of their material<br />
(Rodenhiser & Holton, 1937; Holton, 1938 a; Holton & Rodenhiser, 1942;<br />
Rodenhiser & Holton, 1945).<br />
Physiologic races tend to be regional in distribution, their location depending<br />
largely on the "varieties of wheat grown in a particular area (Holton, 1947), but<br />
interchange of seed and dispersal of inoculum by wind alter in time the relative<br />
prevalence of races (Holton, 1930, 1931; Holton & Suneson, 1942; Hansing &<br />
Melehers, 1945). Races Til {T. caries) and L8 (T. foetida) have recently assumed<br />
greater importance in areas where Ridit and Oro have replaced older commercial<br />
varieties of wheat (Rodenhiser & Holton, 1945).<br />
Races differ, not only in pathogenicity, but also in the size and shape of the
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 85<br />
bunt balls, the size, reticulations, colour, and germination of the chlamydospores,<br />
nuclear behaviour, cultural characters, and in their effect on height and^tUlering<br />
of the host (Bressman (1931), Smith (1932 b), Holton (1933), Young (1935),<br />
Mitra (1935), Holton & Heald (1936), Savelescu & Sandu Ville (1939), Spangenberg<br />
& Gutner (1936), Gassner (1938), Hanna (1932), Kienholz & Heald (1930),<br />
Flor (1933), Becker (1936), Melchers (1934), Churchward (1938 a), Rodenhiser &<br />
Holton (1937).<br />
The name dwarf bunt (Young, 1935) has been given to a variety of T. caries<br />
which causes excessive dwarfing and tillering of infected plants and produces<br />
small, relatively hard balls of spores. These have prominent reticulations,<br />
germinate only after prolonged soaking (or at 5° C, see Lowther, 1948), and give<br />
atypical promycelia (see p. 83) (Holton, 1943), Dwarf bunt is largely soilborne<br />
and attacks only autumn-so^vn wheat in the United States (Bamberg,<br />
1941; Holton & Suneson, 1943; Blodgett, 1944). It is suppressed if grown with<br />
T. caries and T. foetida on the same plant (Bamberg et al., 1947).<br />
Tilletia indica Mitra (1931,1935, 1937) is only distinguished from T. caries by<br />
the size of spore—which is said to be nearly double that of T. caries. At first it<br />
was said to be odourless and to cause only partial swelling of the host, but this<br />
was corrected later.<br />
Varietal resistance. The world-wide search for varieties of wheat immune from<br />
bunt (reviewed in Holton & Heald, 1941) brought to Ught certain highly resistant<br />
varieties used in genetical studies by the workers named: Turkey (Gaines, 1920,<br />
1925 a; Gaines & Singleton, 1926); Hohenheimer (Gaines & Smith, 1933); Hussar,<br />
Martin, White Odessa, Banner Berkeley, Turkey, Sherman, Oro (Briggs, 1926-<br />
40; Schlehuber, 1938; Wismer, 1934; Bryan, 1937; Stanford, 1941); Albit<br />
(Bressman & Harris, 1933; Schlehuber, 1933, 1935); Florence (Churchward,<br />
1931, 1932, 1938 b); Garnet (Kildufif, 1933); and Hope (Smith, W. K., 1933;<br />
Clark et al., 1933; Bryan, 1937; Churchward, 1938 b). Certain varieties, such as<br />
Hope, resistant when spring-sown, are susceptible if sown in the autumn (Smith,<br />
W. K., 1932 a, 1933). The main genetical results of crosses between resistant and<br />
susceptible varieties are presented in tabular form by Holton & Heald (1941).<br />
The most clear-cut evidence of segregation involving only one or two main<br />
factors was obtained when the inoculum consisted of a single physiologic race of<br />
bunt (Briggs, 1926-40; Churchward, 1931-58). Three major factors for resistance,<br />
designated M (Martin), H (Hussar), and T (Turkey) with linkage between<br />
T and M were recognized by Briggs (1940). Some varieties of wheat carry<br />
modifying factors (Briggs, 1929, 1930 c). Resistance is dominant, incompletely<br />
dominant, or recessive according to the cross. Although a single factor for<br />
resistance does not govern the reaction to all forms of bunt, one factor may<br />
function for a group of three or more races (Bressman & Harris, 1933; Smith,<br />
W. K., 1933; Gaines & Smith, 1933). The reaction to certain races of the two<br />
species of Tilletia is controlled by the same gene (Gaines & Smith, 1933; Schlehuber,<br />
1935). In a cross between White Odessa and a Turkey X Florence selection,<br />
with two races of bunt in the inoculum, resistance was apparently governed<br />
by six genes (Schlehuber, 1938). A mixture of physiologic races is often used in<br />
practical plant-breeding (Martin, 1936). Holton & Heald (1936) recommend that<br />
the number be limited to ten, since more may dilute the inoculum with a decHne
86 THE BEITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
in the degree of infection (Fittschen, 1939). The value of the back-cross method<br />
of breeding bunt-resistant wheats is discussed by Briggs (1930 a, 1935 b).<br />
I<br />
Tilletia decipiens (Pers.) Korn.<br />
Uredo segetum e decipiens Persoon, Synopsis, p. 225, 180,1.<br />
Uredo decipiens a graminum Strauss, 1810. I<br />
Uredo sphaerococca Rabenhorst, 1844, fide Komicke, 1877.<br />
Tilletia sphaerococca (Rabenh.) Fischer von Waldheim, 1867.<br />
Tilletia decipiens (Pers.) Komicke, Hedwigia, xvi, p. 30, 1877.<br />
Tilletia separata Massee, 1899, p.p., fide Massee, 1899.<br />
Sari in the ovaries filHng the grata with spores, partly hidden by the glumes,<br />
about 1 mm. long. Spore mass powdery, dark brown, foetid. Spores globose to<br />
sub-globose, brown, reticulate (reticulations somewhat irregular, 3-5 [J, wide,<br />
2-4 (mostly 2-5-3-5) fj, deep), 26-32 ^ diam.<br />
On Agrostis canina, A. stolonifera, A. tenuis.<br />
Sept. Widespread.<br />
Infected plants are stunted, and dwarfed plants of A. tenuis were at one<br />
time known as A. pumila L., see W. R. PhUlipson (J. Bat., Land., Ixxiii, pp.<br />
70-2, 1935, J. Linn. Sac., Bot., U, pp. 84, 89, 100, 193) who states that infected<br />
plants sometimes recover and revert to their normal habit.<br />
Spore germination. Brefeld (1895) germinated spores three years old. The<br />
promycelial branches six to ten in number and septate like those of T. caries,<br />
fuse in pairs and, still in situ, give rise to sickle-shaped sporidia. In Brefeld's<br />
figures these are seen germinating, without falling, to form long hyphae<br />
(Fig. 10 a).<br />
Tilletia hold (Westend.) Schroet.<br />
Polycystis hold Westendorp, Bull. Acad. roy. Belg., Ser. 2, xi, p. 660, 1861.<br />
Tilletia hold (Westend.) Schroeter, in Cohn, Beitrag. Biol.Ppinz.,u,j). 365,1877.<br />
Tilletia rauwenhoffii Fischer von Waldheim, 1887 [nov. nom. for P. hold Westend.]<br />
Sori in the ovaries filling the inflated grain with spores, partly hidden by the<br />
glumes, 2-3 mm. long. Spore mass powdery, brownish black, slightly foetid.<br />
Spores globose to sub-globose, brown, reticulate (reticulations 4-6 ix wide, 2-3 ju.<br />
deep), 22-28 /x diam.<br />
On Holcus lanatus and H. mollis.<br />
June-Sept. Widespread. Common.<br />
First recorded for the British Isles as T. rauwenhoffii on H. mollis, ra. Doncaster,<br />
17 July 1891, by Plowright (1891, 1899) {Qdnrs' Chron., Ser. 3, iv,<br />
p. 374, 1891; Trans. Brit, mycol. Sac, i, 60, 1899).<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.<br />
Tilletia lolii Auers.<br />
Tilletia lolii Auerswald in IQotzsch-Rabenhorst, Herb. viv. myc, No. 1899,1854.<br />
Sori in the ovaries filling the, inflated grain with spores, partly hidden by the<br />
glumes, 5-7 mm. long. Spore mass powdery, brown, foetid when fresh. Spores
THE BEITISH SMUT FUNGI 87<br />
globose to sub-globose, light brown, reticulate (reticulations 2-4 JJ, wide, 2-3 /A<br />
deep), 18-22 fi diam.<br />
On Lolium temulentum, L. multiflorum, L. perenne, and L. remotum.<br />
Welsh Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth. Introduced in seed of L. temulentum<br />
from Portugal and infected the four species of Lolium named, in a pot<br />
.experiment in 1937-8 (Sampson & Western, 1941).<br />
Spore germination was figured by Kiihn (1858). The sporidia at the end of the<br />
promycelium are shorter and wider than those of T. caries. Fusions of filiform<br />
sporidia and the development of allantoid sporidia were shown.<br />
Infection of the host occurs at the seedling stage (Sampson & Western, 1941).<br />
Tilletia menieri Har. & Pat.<br />
Tilletia menieri Hariot & Patouillard, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr., xx, p. 61, 1904.<br />
Sori in the ovaries filling the inflated grain with spores, partly hidden by the<br />
glumes, 3-4 mm. long. Spore mass powdery, brownish black. Spores globose to<br />
sub-globose, light brown, reticulate (reticulations 2-^ fj, wide, 1-5-3-0 /A deep),<br />
20-26 fx. diam.<br />
On Phalaris arundinacea.<br />
August. Ireland (Antrim) (see A. L. Smith, Trans. Brit, mycol. Soc., iii, p. 374,<br />
1911); England (Suffolk, Northumberland); Scotland.<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.<br />
ENTOEEHIZA C. Weber,<br />
Bot. Zeit., xlii, p. 378, 1884<br />
Type: Entorrhiza cypericola (Magnus) Weber on Cyperus flavescens, Germany.<br />
Sori in swellings of the living roots of Cyperus and Juncus. Spores single,<br />
thick-waUed. Spore germination by one or more germ tubes on which small<br />
sicklei-shaped sporidia are developed.<br />
Magnus (Verh. bot. Vereins Brandenburg, xx, p. 53, 1878) described a smut<br />
causing swelhngs on the roots of Cyperus flavescens which he referred to the<br />
genus Schinzia Naeg. as S. cypericola Magn. Because of the doubtful nature of<br />
Schinzia, a genus erected by Naegeli {Linnea, xvi, p. 281, 1842) for two uncertain<br />
species found in 7ns roots, Webert|1884) proposed a new genus Entorrhiza<br />
based on E. cypericola (Magn.) Weber. Weber, however, united smuts from root<br />
swellings of C. flavescens and Junxyus bufonius as E. cypericola and his observations<br />
on the biology were made on material from the second host. Subsequently,<br />
Magnus (1888) showed that the smut on C. flavescens (which has finely reticulate<br />
or punctate spores) differs from that on J. bufonius^ (which has coarsely warted<br />
spores) and proposed the name Schinzia aschersoniana Magnus {foe. cit., p. 103)<br />
for the latter. Lagerheim in Aug., 1888, and de Toni in Oct., 1888 {Sacc. Syll.,<br />
vii, p. 497), independently made the combination Entorrhiza aschersoniana.<br />
This confusion has been reflected in the nomenclature adopted by different<br />
authors for these smuts.<br />
No British specimen has been examined. It is clear from the pubhshed records<br />
that E. aschersonia on J. bufonius has been collected in Scotland but the species<br />
involved in certain records on other species of Juncus is less certain.
88 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Entorrhiza aschersoniana (Magn.) Lagerh.<br />
Schinzia aschersoniana P. Magnus, Ber. deutsch. hot. Oes.. vi, p. 103, 1888..<br />
Entorrhiza aschersoniana (Ka,^.) Lagerheim, Hedioigia, xxvii, p. 261, (Aug.)<br />
1888. I<br />
Bori in swellings of the roots, 3 mm. diam. and up to l' cm. long. Spcn-e mass<br />
cream-coloured, then light- brown, granular. Spores elliptical, thick-walled,yellow-brown,<br />
coarsely verrucose, 17-20 X15-17/x<br />
. (Fig. 12). [No British material examined.]<br />
Sporidia sickle-shaped, 5-10 X-2-3 fi.<br />
On Juncus bufonius, nr. Aberdeen, Scotland (Trail,<br />
Scot. Naturalist, N.S., vi, p. 241, 1884; Ann. Scot. nat.<br />
Hist., No. 47, p. 188,1903).<br />
FIG. 12. Entorrhiza ascher- This, or allied species, have also been reported<br />
Spores. X500. (Rabenh., ^^ '^• squarrosus and J. uligmosus, nr. Glasgow<br />
Fungi Europ. 3902.) (Cameron, Proc. Trans, nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, N.S., i,<br />
p. 299, 1886, as E. cypericola), and on J. articukitus<br />
(Trail (1903) loc. cit., as E. digitata; Schwartz (1910), as E. cypericola) but in<br />
the absence of specimens the identity of the species involved must remain in<br />
doubt.<br />
Spore germination is not weU known. Weber (1884) germinated spores which had<br />
been overwintered in moist sand out of doors in water at 10° C. during February,<br />
and stated that in nature germination occurs in early May. The spores formed<br />
one to four septate hyphae from the apices of which solitary sickle-shaped<br />
sporidia developed. Brefeld (1912), who doubted the relationship between<br />
Entorrhiza and the Ustilaginales, stated that on germination richly branched<br />
hyphae produced long, pointed conidia in basipetal succession on sterigmata as<br />
in Acrostalagmus. The conidia germinated and repeated the process. Schwartz<br />
(1910) who made observations on the development of the chlamydospores was<br />
unable to induce them to germinate.<br />
ScHEOETEEiA Winter,<br />
Rabenh. Krypt. Flor., i (1), p. 117, 1881<br />
Type: Schroeteria delastrina (Tul.) Winter on Veronicapraecox, Poictiers, France.<br />
Synonym: Oeminella Schroeter, 1869 [non Turpin].<br />
Sori in the seed capsules of species of Veronica. Spore mass dark coloured.<br />
Spores in pairs. Spore germination, see p. 89.<br />
Schroeteria delastrina (Tul.) Wint.<br />
Thecaphora delastrina Tulasne, Ann. Sci. nat.„Bot.,SGv. 3, p. 108, 1847.<br />
Geminella delastrina (Tul.) Schroeter, 1869.<br />
Schroeteria delastrina (Tul.) Winter, Rabenh. Krypt. Flor., i (1), p. 117, 1881.<br />
Sori in the seed capsules. Spore mass granular, at first grey-green, later dark<br />
grey. Spores in twos, or, less frequently, single, globose when single, flattened<br />
on side of contact when one of a pair, tinted grey-green, thin-walled, verrucose,<br />
9-12 /i diam. (Fig. 14).
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 89<br />
FIG. 13. Spoie geimination in Schioeteria. a. S. delastrina. x200 (Brefeld, 1883);<br />
6. S. delastrinaT X 340 (Cocooni, 1898).<br />
On Veronica arvensis.<br />
Norfolk (Fakenham, June, 1889, Plowright, Trans. Brit, mycol. Soc, i, p. 60,<br />
1899; BrundaU, 21 June, 1945, E. A. Ellis); Oxon. (Peppard Common, May,<br />
1943, L. E. Hawker, ibid, xxvii, p. 48,1944 [Herb. I.M.I. 32336]).<br />
Spore germination. Schroeter (1877) germinated spores from Veronica arvensis.<br />
Only one of the paired spores produced a germ-tube. Three days after sowing<br />
this was 2-5 /x thick and about five times the diameter of<br />
the spore in length, septate, and usually branched. Eggshaped<br />
sporidia (5-6 X 3 ft) were formed at the end of the<br />
promycelium. Brefeld (1883) illustrated the germiuation of<br />
12 pairs of spores (from Veronica arvensis or V. triphyllosl).<br />
Sometimes both spores germinated. The promycelia were<br />
septate, relatively long, of uniform thickness, and nearly<br />
spherical sporidia developed in a chain from the apex<br />
(Fig. 13 a). Winter (1876) figured a promycelium with one<br />
short side branch and one longer, septate ^filament bearing<br />
FIG. 14. Schroeteria<br />
delastrina. Spores.<br />
X500.<br />
three apical branches. Cocconi (1898) investigated the form (described as<br />
var. reticulata) on Veronica praecox. In some spores the germ-tube formed a<br />
much-branched mycelium, in others round, sporidia developed basipetaUy in<br />
chains on a simple or forked promyceUum. One spore was figured with a<br />
terminal crown of short branches as described by Winter (Fig. 13 6).<br />
The related Schroeteria decaisneana from Veronica hederifolia was described<br />
and figured by Schroeter (1877). A peculiar feature of this species was the flaskshaped<br />
promycelium (width 3-4 /u. at base) from the neck of which developed a<br />
succession of globular sporidia (2-5-3 /x). These sometimes remained in a chain<br />
of four to seven. Their subsequent behaviour was not determined.
90 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
TuBURCiNiA Fries em. Woronin,<br />
Abh. Senck. Nat. Ges., xii, 359-591, 1882<br />
Type: Tvburcinia trientalis Berk. & Br. on Trientalik europaea, Scotland.<br />
Synonym: Ginanniella Ciferri, 1938. •<br />
Sori usually in the stems and leaves, and rather permanently embedded in the<br />
host tissue. Spore balls composed of a number of firmly united fertile spores<br />
only. Sporidia sometimes produced in the host plant before spore development.<br />
Liro (1922) monographed the genus Urocystia as Tuburcinia Fr. but a<br />
proposal has been made for the conservation of the name Urocystis, see p. 92.<br />
Tubuicinia piimulicola (Magn.) Bref.<br />
Urocystis primulicola P. Magnus, Verh. bot. Ver. Brandenburg, xx, p. 53, 1878.<br />
Tuburciniaprimulicola (Magn.) Brefeld, Untersuch. Ges. Mykol., xii, p. 180,1895<br />
[as 'Rostrup'].<br />
Paepalopsis irmischiae Kiihn is considered to be the stat. eonid.<br />
Sori in the ovaries. Spore mass brown-black, powdery. Spore balls globose or<br />
somewhat elongated, dark brown, 30-60 X 20^5 /J.. Spores globose to ovate, dark<br />
brown, wall about 2 [J, thick, smooth, 10-15 ^ diam. Sporidia (in ovaries and<br />
anthers of young flowers) globose or elongated, hyaline, smooth, 4-12 X 4-6 [i.<br />
On Primula farinosa and P. vulgaris.<br />
March, July-Aug. England, Scotland. Uncommon.<br />
Spore germination has been described and figured by Pirotta (1881), Plowright<br />
(1889) (Pig. 15 c), Brefeld (1895) (Fig. 15 d), and Cocconi (1890). The promyceUa<br />
produce terminally one to four short cylindrical sporidia which fuse in situ or<br />
after abscission and give' rise to secondary sporidia. Under some conditions<br />
promycelia form only simple or branched hyphae. Germination, occurs immediately<br />
the spores are ripe (Kiihn, 1892).<br />
Infection of the host. Kiihn (1892) inoculated in May young plants of Primula<br />
vulgaris with germinating sporidia {Paipalopsis irmischiae), kept them for<br />
several days in a moist atmosphere, then in a cold glasshouse. In April of the<br />
following year first sporidia, then chlamydospores, developed on the flowers of<br />
inoculated plants.<br />
Tuburcinia trientalis Berk. & Br.<br />
Tuburcinia trientalis Berkeley & Broome, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., Ser. 2, ii, p. 464,<br />
1850 [Notices of British Fungi No. 488].<br />
Sorosporium trientalis (Berk. & Br.) Cooke, 1877 [as 'Sorosporium trientalis<br />
Woron.'].<br />
Ginanniella trientalis (Berk. & Br.) Ciferri, 1938.<br />
Ascomyces trientalis Berkeley, Outlines of British Fungology, p. 376, 1860 [stat.<br />
conid.].<br />
Sori in the leaves and stems forming bhster-like swellings. Spore mass granular,<br />
black. Spore balls irregularly rounded or elongated, opaque, black, 30-90 /x<br />
diam., each consisting of a large number (25-100) of firmly united spores.<br />
Spores globose to polygonal, dark yellowish-brown, smooth, 11-18 /x diam.
FIG. 15. Spore geimination in Taboicinia and Doassansia. o. T.trientalis. x 520 and x620<br />
(Woronjn, 1882); 6. T. trientalis. Foliar sporidia. x320 and X520 (Woronin, 1882); c. T.<br />
primulicola. x475 and x500 (Plowright, 1889); d. T. primulicola. X 350 (Brefeld, 1895);<br />
6. D. alismatis. X 1000 (Setchell, 1892);/. D. sagittariae. x 350 (Brefeld, 1895).
92 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
(Fig. 16). Sporidia on the host in spring and early summer as white patches on<br />
the stems, in autumn on the undersides of the leaves, pear-shaped or elliptical,<br />
7_l4x4-5ft(Fig. 15 6).<br />
On Trientalis europaea.<br />
May-Oct. Scotland.<br />
Exsiccati: Vize, Fungi Brit., 136; Phillips, Elvell. Brit., 50 (as A. trientalis).<br />
Spore germination. Woronin (1882) germinated fresh spores during September-<br />
October from plants subject to moist weather conditions.<br />
Attempts at other times of the year failed.<br />
Germinating spores were found on the leaves and<br />
stems and on material kept under a watch glass.<br />
As many as 20 promycelia originated in succession<br />
from one spore ball. The promycelium issued<br />
through a round hole in the exosporium. The<br />
length varied with conditions and the promyeelial<br />
branches developed better in Ught than in darkness.<br />
fusion one of the pair developed a sporidimn.<br />
Unpaired branches also formed sporidia and fusions sometimes occurred<br />
between sporidia which had fallen off (Fig. 15 a).<br />
Infection of the host. Woronin (1882) placed geriiiinating spores on young healthy<br />
shoots of Trientalis europaea, covered with a thiu layer of soil and left over the<br />
winter. In spring the shoots grew above the soil and carried sporidia of the smut.<br />
UBOCYSTIS Rabenhorst,<br />
Herb. Viv. Myc, ii. No. 393, 1856.<br />
Type: Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) E-abenh. on Secale cereale, Europe.<br />
Synonym: Polycystis Leveille, 1846.<br />
Sori usually in the leaves and stems. Spore mass usually powdery. Spore balls<br />
composed of one to several permanently united fertile spores-more or less completely<br />
surrounded by a cortex of colourless or tinted sterile cells. Spores<br />
generally dark in colour. Spore germination, see pp. 94-100.<br />
This genus was monographed by Liro (1922) as Tuburcinia but to avoid<br />
changes in the names of major plant pathogens conservation of Urocystis<br />
Rabenh. against Tuburcinia Fr. has been proposed (see Trans. Brit. mycol.Soc,<br />
xxiii, p. 214,1939, and Phytopathology, xxx, p. 453, 1940).<br />
Urocystis agtopyri (Preuss) Schroet. Stripe Smut of Wheat.<br />
Uredo agropyri Preuss in Sturm, Deutschl. Fhr., vi, p. 1, 1848.<br />
Urocystis agropyri (Preuss) Schroeter, Abh. Schles. Ges., naturw. Abth. 1869-72,<br />
p. 7, 1869.<br />
Urocystis tritici Kornieke, 1877, fide G. W. Fischer, 1943.<br />
Tvhurcinia agropyri (Preuss) Liro, 1922.<br />
Tuburcinia tritici (Komicke) Lire, 1922.<br />
Sori in the leaves as elongated blisters parallel with the veins, at first beneath<br />
the epidermis which ruptures to expose the spores, the leaves splitting into
FIG. 17. Spore germination in Urocystis. a. U. violae. x 350 (Brefeld, 1895); 6. V. violae.<br />
X 1,000 (Paravicini, 1917); c. U. anemones, x 1,000 (Paravioini, 1917); d. U.fischeri. x 500<br />
(Plowright, 1889); e. V. occulta. (Stakman et at, 1934).
94 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
ribbons. Spore mass powdery, black. Spore halls irregularly globose, 14-26 jti<br />
diam., each composed of one or two (occasionally three) spores completely surrounded<br />
by a layer of yeUowish-tinted sterile cellsl mostly 7-10 /i diam., but<br />
frequently rather disorganized to give a ridged effect. Spores irregularly globose,<br />
reddish-brown, smooth, 12-14 (rarely up to 16) fj. diam.<br />
On Agropyron pungens, A. repens, Arrhenatherum\elatius.<br />
May-June. England (Surrey), Scotland.<br />
Spore germination of the smut on grasses is unknown. Spore balls from wheat<br />
germinate on water in three to five days, producing a short thick promycehum<br />
with an apical cluster of three to five or more hyahne cylindrical sporidia<br />
(Fischer & Hirschhorn, 1945 a).<br />
Infection of the host occurs at the seedhng stage. The fungus persists for several<br />
years in perennial grasses (Fischer & Holton, 1943). Underground buds of<br />
Agropyron repens were infected experimentally but not those of Carex, Phleum,<br />
Poa, or Agrostis species (Liro, 1938).<br />
Racial specialization. The following species of grasses in the United States are<br />
more or less susceptible to the stripe smut of wheat: Agropyron caninum, A.<br />
dasystachyum, A. desertorum, A. inerme, A. repens, A. semicostatum, A. spicatum,<br />
A. trachycaulum, Elymus canadensis, E. glaucus, E. triticoides, and Hordeum<br />
jubatum var. caespitosum. Rye appears to be immune but one variety of wheat<br />
(KanredxHard Federation C.I. 10092) is slightly susceptible to Urocystis<br />
agropyri from grasses. Three out of four collections of spores from grasses were<br />
physiologically distinct (Fischer & Holton, 1943). In South Africa and in<br />
Australia the stripe smut from wheat failed to infect grasses (Verwoerd, 1929;<br />
Jarrett, 1932).<br />
Two physiologic races of the wheat stripe smut were distinguished by their<br />
reactions on certain Oro X Federation selections (Holton & Johnson, 1943), and<br />
12 races were recognized in China where varietal resistance and its mode of<br />
inheritance have been studied (Shen, 1934; Yu, Hwang, & Tsiang, 1936; Yu,<br />
Wang, & Fang, 1945). Work on the resistance of wheat varieties to stripe smut<br />
has also been done in Australia (Pridham & Dwyer, 1930; Limbourn, 1931;<br />
Jarrett, 1932.; Millikan & Sims, 1937), in South Africa (Verwoerd, 1929), and in<br />
the United States (Tisdale, Duncan, & Leighty, 1923).<br />
Urocystis anemones (Pers.) Winter Anemone Smut<br />
Uredo anemones Persoon, Synopsis meth. Fung., p. 233, 1801.<br />
Gaeoma pompholygodes Schlechtendal, 1826, fide Saccardo, 1886.<br />
Polycystis pompholygodes (Schlecht.) LeveiUe, 1846.<br />
Polycystis anemones (Pers.) LeveiUe, 1847.<br />
Urocystis pompholygodes (Schlecht.) Rabenhorst, 1864.<br />
Urocystis anemones (Pers.) Winter in Rabenh. Krypt. Flor., i (1), p. 123,1881.<br />
Tuburcinia anemones (Pers.) Liro, 1922.<br />
Sori in the leaves and stems as blister-like swellings beneath the epidermis which<br />
ruptures to expose the spores. Spore mass powdery, black. Spore balls irregular,<br />
16-32 fi diam., each composed of one spore (occasionally two or three) partially<br />
surrounded by yellowish sterile cells, 6-14 fx. diam., which not infrequently
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 95<br />
separate from the central spore. Spores globose, angular, or somewhat elongated,<br />
dark brown, smooth, 12-26 (mostly 14^18) y, diam.<br />
On Anemone nemorosa, A. pulsatilla, cultivated Anemones, and Ranunculus<br />
repens. Malcolm Wilson {Trans. Brit, mycol. Soc, xii, p. 115) has also recorded<br />
B. ficaria and Trollius europaeus as hosts in Scotland.<br />
April-Sept. Widespread. Common.<br />
Exsiccati: Berkeley, Fungi Brit. 236 [as Uredo pompfiolygodes]; Vize, Fungi Brit.<br />
36 [as Urocystis pompholygodes]; Microfungi Brit. 40 [as Urocystis pompholygodes];<br />
Cooke, Fungi Brit. Exsicc. i, 79 [as Polycystis pompholygodes]; ii, 148<br />
[as Urocystis pompholygodes}.<br />
Spore germination. Fischer von Waldheim (1867) and Plowright (1889) obtained<br />
similar results in regard to germination. The latter found that spores immersed<br />
for 48 hours in water in November and December produced promyceUa which,<br />
growing up into the air, developed three or four sporidia (10-14 x 3-3-5 fj,). Enlarging<br />
and becoming vacuolate, these sometimes attained a size of 22 X 4 ju..<br />
Fusion between sporidia was observed by Plowright. Liro (1938) confirmed these<br />
results, noting the shortness of the promycelia and observing fusions between<br />
sporidia which finally became septate. Paravicini (1917) found that the sporidia,<br />
while still on the promycehum, were uninucleate (Fig. 17 c)., Fusions were not<br />
observed but in old cultures some cells had two nuclei. The binucleate condition<br />
appeared to arise by the fusion of two neighbouring cells but his figures are not<br />
convincing. '<br />
Infection of the host. Plowright (1889) placed sporidia on leaves of Ranunculus<br />
repens in December and obtained sori at the same point in February. He con-<br />
' eludes that infection is localized, not systemic. Markova (1927) found the spores<br />
capable of germination as soon as they were formed and any young part of the<br />
plant could be infected throughout the year. He established the existence of<br />
three physiologic races, f. cassubici on Ranunculus cassvhicus, f. repentis on<br />
R. acris, R. repens, and six other species of Ranunculus, and f. anemones on<br />
Anemone nemorosa and A. ranunculoides. He failed to infect R. ficaria, R.<br />
flammula, R. lingua, R. sderatus, and Trollius europaeus. Liro (1938) has given<br />
specific rank to the races on Anemone, Trollius, Ranunculus ficaria, and some<br />
other members of the Ranunculaceae.<br />
Urocystis cepolae Frost , ^ - Onion Smut<br />
Urocystis cepulae Frost, Ann. Rep. Sec. Mass. St. Bd. Agric, xxiv, p. 175,1877.<br />
Urocystis colchici (Schlecht.) Rabenh. var. cepulae M. C. Cooke, 1877.<br />
Tuhurcinia cepulae (Frost) Liro, 1922. '<br />
Sori in the leaves as isolated pustules or as elongated dark streaks beneath the<br />
epidermis which later ruptures (Plate II, Fig. 3). Spore mass powdery, dark<br />
brown. Spore halls spherical to elhpsoidal, 14-22 fi diam., each composed of a<br />
single spore surrounded by a layer of spherical to ellipsoidal yellowish to subhyaline<br />
sterile cells, 4-6 /i diam. Spores spherical to ellipsoidal, reddish brown,<br />
smooth, 11-14 fi. diam.<br />
On Allium cepa (cultivated onion); also A. porrum (leek) and A. vineale (Moore,<br />
1943, 1948).<br />
April, May, Nov. England, Scotland.
96 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Spore germination. Spores germinate as soon as they are ripe at an optimum<br />
temperature of 13° to 22° C. (Walker & WeUman, 1926). Thaxter (1890) first<br />
observed germination. Anderson (1921) described fiow the promycelium remained<br />
short and hemispherical, while from it arose a whorl of branches which<br />
grew indefinitely to form myceUum. Older parts of the mycehum became empty,<br />
the protoplasm collecting in the growing tips. The cells tended to separate and<br />
detached fragments started new growth in culture. BHzzard (1926) confirmed<br />
these results. He described the promyceHum as a spherical vesicle about 6-10 /i<br />
diam. From it arose four to eight branches of variable length which continued<br />
growth and produced in 12 to 18 hours on onion decoction agar a dense weft of<br />
myceUum. Fusions were not observed and no sporidia developed. All cells of<br />
the hyphae developing from the promyceUum were uninucleate and remained so<br />
during the saprophytic life. Parasitic mycehum consisted at first of uninucleate<br />
cells but binucleate segments were seen in the young sorus, and before sporogenesis<br />
all the cells contained two nuclei.<br />
Infection of the host occurs through the cotyledon before the emergence of the<br />
first leaf at soil temperatures between 10° and 27° C. (Walker & Jones, 1921;<br />
Szembel, 1926). No resistant varieties of onion of commercial value are known<br />
but a fertile amphidiploid, obtained by crossing Allium cepa with the resistant<br />
species A. fistulosum, may be useful ,in breeding resistant types (Walker,<br />
Jones, & Clarke, 1944). The fungus survived in soil for 20 years (Moore, 1948).<br />
Urocystis colchici (Schlecht.) Rabenh.<br />
Caeoma colchici Schlechtendal, Linnaea, i, p. 241, 1826.<br />
Uredo colchici Link, Handbuch, iii, p. 435, 1883.<br />
Polycystis pompholygodes (Schlecht.) LeveUle, 1846 p.p.<br />
Polycystis colchici Tulasne, 1847.<br />
Urocystis colchici (Schlecht.) Rabenhorst, Fung. Eur., No. 396, 1861.<br />
Tuburcinia colchici (Schlecht.) Liro, 1922.<br />
Sori in the leaves as bhster-hke swellings parallel with the veins, 0-5-1-0 mm.<br />
wide, 2-10 or more mm. long, at first beneath the epidermis which later ruptures<br />
to expose the spores. Spore mass powdery, dark brown. Spore halls globose to<br />
irregular, 14-34 x 14-22 ju., each composed of one or two (rarely three or four)<br />
spores surrounded by a layer of yellowish, ovoid, sterile cells, 7-10 /x diam.<br />
Spores globose or angled to somewhat elongated, flattened on side of contact,<br />
reddish-brown, smooth, 12-16 /u. diam.<br />
On Colchicum autumnale. Also recorded on imported bulbs of Colchicum sp.<br />
and Bulbocodium vernum {Bull. Minist. Agric, Land., 79, p. 109, 1934).<br />
June. Wilts. Uncommon.<br />
Exsiccati: Berkeley, Brit. Fungi, 309 [as Uredo colchici^<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.<br />
Urocystis eranthidis (Passerini) Ainsworth & Sampson, comb. nov.<br />
Polycystis anemones var. eranthidiaVa.&serixxi, Erb. Critt. Ital., Ser. 2, No. 549,1871.<br />
Urocystis pompholygodes var. eranthidis (Pass.) Passerini, 1877.<br />
Tuburcinia eranthidis (Pass.) Liro, 1922 [as 'T. eranthis'].
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 97<br />
8ori in the leaves and petioles as blister-like swellings beneath the epidermis<br />
which ruptures to expose the spores. Spore mass powdery, black. Spore balls<br />
globose to somewhat ellipsoidal, 20-40 ja diam., each composed of one spore (or<br />
occasionally two) completely surrounded by a layer of yellowish-tinted, somewhat<br />
elongated, sterile cells, 8-12 fj, diam. Spores globose, dark brown, smooth,<br />
13-18 fi diam.<br />
On Eranthis hyemalis.<br />
April-May. Norfolk, Dorset, Cambs.<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.<br />
Urocystis filipendulae (Tul.) Schroet.<br />
Polycystis filipendulae Tulasne, Ann. Sci. not., Sot., Ser. 4, ii, p. 163, 1854.<br />
Urocystis filipendulae (Tul.) Schroeter, Die Brand- und Bostpilze Schlesiens, p. 7,<br />
1870.<br />
Tuburcinia filipendulae (Tul.) Liro, 1922.<br />
Sori in the petioles and mid-ribs of the radical leaves, irregular, finally erumpent,<br />
up to 44 mm. long. Spore mass powdery, black. Spore balls variable, each composed<br />
of one to seven spores surrounded, by irregular sub-globose, brown, sterile<br />
cells, up to 12 /idiam. Spores rounder angular, brown, punctate, 15-25 X10-15 [JL.<br />
On Filipendula liexapetala.<br />
Damford Down, Salisbury, May, 1897, Mr. Tatum (Plowright, Trans. Brit,<br />
mycol. Soc, i, p. 60, 1899). ^<br />
Spore germination. Schroeter (1877) germinated spores, collected two months<br />
previously, in distilled water. The short promycelium produced terminally a<br />
tuft of five or six long cylindrical branches about equal in length to the diameter<br />
of the spore. Brefeld (1883) confirmed these results with spores that had lain<br />
for a year in moist soil. The promycehal branches developed mycehum without<br />
fusion.<br />
Urocystis flscheri K6m.<br />
Urocystis fi^cheri Komicke, Hedwigia, xvi, p. 34, 1879.<br />
Tuburcinia fischeri (Kom.) Liro, 1922.<br />
Sori in the leaves as elongated blisteTs parallel with the veins, at first beneath<br />
the epidermis which ruptures to expose the spores. Spore mass powdery, black.<br />
Spore balls irregularly globose, 20-35 jn diam., each composed of one to two<br />
(occasionally three to four) spores completely surrounded by a layer of yellowishtinted,<br />
sterile cells, 8-14 /j. diam. ^Spores rounded, dark reddish-brown, 14-16 ju.<br />
diam. '<br />
On Carex flacca.<br />
June. England (Dorset [Herb, Path. Lab. 12]), Scotland (Forfarshire),<br />
Spore germination. Plowright (1889) germinated the spores after a considerable<br />
period of soaking in water. He remarked on the length of the promycelium and<br />
on the size and number of the sporidia, as many as eight occurring on one promycelium.<br />
No reference was made to fusions (Fig, 17 d).<br />
' G
98 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Tlrocystis gladiolicola Ainsworth Gladiolus Smut<br />
Urocystis gladiolicola Ainsworth, Trans. Brit, mycol. Sdc, xxxii, p. 257, 1950.<br />
Sori in the leaves, as dark brown blisters paraUelwith the jv^eins, 1 mm. to several<br />
cm. in length, the epidermis rupturing to expose the spores, and in the corms.<br />
Spore mass powdery, dark brown. Spore balls globose, 154-28 ft diam., each composed<br />
of one or two spores completely surrounded by a rstther irregular layer of<br />
colourless sterile cells, 6-10 [i diam. Spores globose or sU'ghtly angled, reddishbro%vn,<br />
12-18 ju. diam.<br />
On cultivated Gladiolus.<br />
June, Dec. Somerset, Cornwall.<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.<br />
The fungus on which W. G. Smith based Urocystis gladioli W. G. Sm. was a<br />
species of Papulaspora (see Ainsworth, 1950).<br />
Urocystis hepaticae-trilobae (DC.) Ainsworth & Sampson, comb. nov.<br />
Uredo ranunculacearum 8 hepaticae-trilobae De CandoUe, Flor. franc, vi, p. 75,<br />
1815.<br />
Tuburcinia hepaticae-trilobae (DC.) Liro, 1922.<br />
Sori in the leaves as blister-like swellings beneath the epidermis which ruptures<br />
to expose the spores. Spore mass powdery, black. Spore balls rather irregular,<br />
21-52 n diam., each composed of one to seven (usually three to five) spores<br />
partially surrounded by yellowish-tinted, sterile cells, 10-13 /ix diam. Spores<br />
globose, angular or somewhat elongated, dark brown, smooth, 14-19 JJ. diam.<br />
On Hepatica pennsylvanica, Kew Gardens, 1890 [as Urocystis pompholygodesi,<br />
[Herb. Kew.].<br />
Infection of the Iwst. Markova (1927) found that spores from Hepatica triloba<br />
would not infect Trollius europaeus, Anemone spp., or Ranunculus spp.<br />
Urocystis junci Lagerh.<br />
Urocystis junci Lagerheim, genuina Lagerheim, Botaniska Notiser 1888, p. 210.<br />
Tuburcinia junci (Lagerh.) Liro, 1922.<br />
Sori inside the lower parts of the stems which finally rupture. Spore mass<br />
powdery, brownish black. Spore balls globose to rather irregular, 20-50 fi diam.,<br />
each composed of one to four (occasionally up to eight or more) spores, completely<br />
surrounded by a layer of smooth, elUpsoidal, yellowish cells 7-10 X 3-5 /x.<br />
Spores globose to ellipsoidal, yellowish, smooth, 12-16 n diam.<br />
On Juncus acutus.<br />
Burnfen Broad, Norfolk, 2.viii.l945, E. A. Ellis {Trans. Norf. Norwich Nat. Soc.,<br />
xvi, p, 175, 1946 [Herb. I.M.I. 582]).<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.<br />
Urocystis occulta (Walk.) Rabenh. Stripe Smut of Rye<br />
Erysibe occulta Wallroth, Flor. Crypt. Qerm., ii, p. 212, 1833.<br />
Uredo parallela Berkeley, 1836.<br />
Polycystis parallela (Berk.) Fries, 1849.<br />
Polycystis occulta (Wallr.) Schlechtendal, 1852.
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 99<br />
Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenhorst in Klotzsch, Herb. viv. myc, ii, No. 393,<br />
1856.<br />
Urocystis parallela (Berk.) Fischer von Waldheim, 1870.<br />
Tufmrcinia occulta (Wallr.) Lire, 1922.<br />
Sori in the leaves, culms, and inflorescence as very long, dark, linear blisters<br />
parallel with the veins, at first covered by the epidermis which later ruptures to<br />
expose the spores. Spore mass powdery, dark reddish-brown. Spore halls globose<br />
to somewhat elongated, 15-26 /A long, each composed of one or two (rarely three<br />
or four) spores, completely or, frequently, incompletely surrounded by a layer of<br />
hyaline or tinted sterile cells, 5-10 /x, diam. Spores globose or angled, flattened<br />
on side of contact, reddish-brown, smooth, 12-16 fi diam. (Fig. 18).<br />
On Secale cereale (rye) causing Stripe Smut.<br />
June. England. Uncommon.<br />
(Spore germination. Germination has been described and figured by Kiihn (1858),<br />
Wolf (1873), Brefeld (1883), and more recently by<br />
Ling (1940 a) and Stakman, Cassell, & Moore (1934).<br />
According to the last-named, spores germinated best<br />
after soaking for 16 hours in water to which benzaldehyde<br />
had been added (three parts in 2,000,000),<br />
and a temperature of 24° C. favoured development.<br />
The promycelia varied in length and septation, the<br />
longest consisting of ten to fifteen cells with protoplasm '°" gpores^'^x^oo!<br />
only in the apical one. Fusion between the promyceUal<br />
branches occurred at the base, apex, or by H -shaped connexions in the<br />
middle, but a study of nuclear behaviour suggested that the dicaryophase can<br />
be initiated not only by fusion but, rarely, by the direct passage of two nuclei<br />
from the promycelium into one of its branches or by the union of two cells in<br />
fairly long hyphae (Fig. 17 e).<br />
Infection of the host during germination of the seed, first demonstrated by Wolff<br />
(1873, 1874 a), has been confirmed by many workers.<br />
Racial specialization. Agropyron caninum, A. inernie, Elymus canadensis, and<br />
E. triticoides were infected by stripe smut from rye while wheat was immune<br />
(Fischer & Holton, 1943).<br />
Urocystis sorosporioides Kom.<br />
Urocystis sorosporioides Kornicke in Fuckel, Symb. mycol.,Nachtr., iii, p. 10,1876.<br />
Tuburcinia sorosporioides (Korn.) Liro, 1922.<br />
Sori in the leaves as blister-like swellings beneath the epidermis which finally<br />
ruptures; less frequently in the petioles and stems. Spore mass powdery, black.<br />
Spore balls spherical to ellipsoidal, dark brown, opaque, 26-38 /i diam., each<br />
composed of three to seven spores completely surrounded by somewhat elongated,<br />
yellowish, sterile cells, 8-10 fi diam. Spores sub-globose, usually angled<br />
by mutual pressure, brown, smooth, 10-14 jx diam.<br />
On Thalictrum mimis and its var. inaritima.<br />
June. England (Lanes.), Scotland (Aberdeens.). Eare.<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.
100 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Urocystis violae (Sow.) Fisch. v. Waldh. Smut of Violets<br />
Granuluria violae Sowerby, English Fungi, t. 440, 1815.<br />
Polycystis violae (Sow.) Berkeley & Broome, 1850.<br />
Urocystis violae (Sow.) Fischer von Waldheim, Bull. Soc. N^at. Moscow, xl, p. 258,<br />
1867.<br />
Tuburcinia violae (Sow.) Liro, 1922. i<br />
Sori in the petioles, veins, and upper parts of the root stock as large elongated<br />
swellings which distort the attacked parts. Spore mass powdery, dark brown.<br />
Spore balls rather irregular, globose to elongated, 26-68 /A long, each composed of<br />
four to eight spores covered by a (frequently disorganized) layer of yellowish<br />
sterile cells, 6-10 JJ. diam. Spores sub-globose, ellipsoidal, or polyhedral, reddish<br />
brown, smooth, 8-16 ja diam.<br />
On Viola odorata, V. reichenbachiana, V. riviniana, and cultivated violets.<br />
Feb., July, Nov. Widespread. Common.<br />
Exsiccati: Cooke, Fungi Brit. Exsicc, i, 78; Vize, Micro. Fungi, 137,.<br />
Spore germination. Germination was obtained by Kiihn (1876), PrilUeux (1880),<br />
Dangeard (1894 a), Brefeld (1895), and Schellenberg (1911). Brefeld figured<br />
several promycelia of varying age from one spore ball. Five or six short fusiform<br />
branches developed at the apex of the promycelium and each produced on a thin<br />
sterigma a long oval sporidium (Fig. 17 a). A similar result was obtained by<br />
Paravicini (1917) who also showed fusion of fallen sporidia (Fig. 17 b). Rawitscher<br />
(1922) described the development of seven to eight uninucleate sporidia<br />
which fused in pairs.<br />
MEiANOTAENrcTM de Bary,<br />
Bot. Zeit., xxxii, p. 105, 1874.<br />
Type: Melanotaenium endogenum (Ung.) de Bary on Galium mollugo, Europe.<br />
Sori in the stems, leaves, and roots giving rise to extensive black or grejrish<br />
areas, permanently embedded in the host tissue. Spore mass never powdery.<br />
Spores single, dark in colour. Sporidia not observed on host plant. Spore germination,<br />
see below.<br />
An account of this genus has been given by Beer (1920).<br />
Melanotaenium cingens (Beck) Magn.<br />
Ustilago cingens Beck, Oster. bot. Zeitschr., xxxi, p. 313, 1881.<br />
Melanotaenium caulium Schroeter, 1887, fide Magnus, 1892.<br />
Cintractia cingens (Beck) de Toni, 1888 [as 'Gintractial cingens'^<br />
Melanotaenium cingens (Beck) Magnus, Oster. bot. Zeitschr., xlii, p. 40, 1892,<br />
Sori in the stems and leaves, covered by a layer of host tissue which disintegrates<br />
to expose the spores. Spore mass firm to somewhat granular, black. Spores<br />
rather irregular, globose to sub-globose, polygonal or ellipsoidal, dark brown,<br />
almost opaque, smooth, 13-18x10-16 ja.<br />
On Linaria vulgaris.<br />
July-Aug. N. Wales: Glyndyfrdwy, nr. Langollen, C. T. Green {Trans. Brit,<br />
mycol. Soc, ii, p. 6, 1903); Prestatyn; Cambs, [Herb. Kew.].<br />
Spore germination. Brefeld (1883) figured germination showing very short
30390<br />
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 101<br />
promycelia, basal fusions between the promycelial branches, and the growth of<br />
these to form'hyphae (Fig. 10 b, d). Juel (1894) also figured germination noting<br />
the short promyceUa (15 /x) with three or four terminal branches, but he did not<br />
observe fusions. Some of the branches formed long septate hyphae (diameter<br />
2 fi) and small, somewhat bent sporidia (9 x 3 ja). In nutrient solution derived<br />
from dung the apical branches of the promycelium formed a bunch of sterile<br />
filaments. Viennot-Bourgin (1937), using a filtrate of soil and compost, germinated<br />
spores from plants of Linaria striata which had been exposed to the<br />
weather until April. The promycelia (70-130 /x.) were thin and flexuous with one<br />
or two slender apical branches (20-30 X 3 ft) which bore at the tip thin slightly<br />
acuminate sporidia (9-18 X 3-5 fi) on rudimentary stalks. l^^.<br />
Melanotaenium endogenum (Unger) de Bary<br />
Protomyces eridogenus Unger, Die Exantheme der Pflanzen, pp. 342, 419, 183:<br />
Protomyces galii Nees von Esenbeck, 1837, fide de Toni, 1888.<br />
Melanotaenium endogenum (Unger) de Bary, Bot. Zeit., xxxii, p. 106, 1874.<br />
Entyloma endogenum (Unger) Wiinsche, 1877.<br />
Sori in the stems and leaves blackening the stunted shoots of the infected plants,<br />
covered by the epidermis of the host. Spore mass firmly agglutinated, black.<br />
Spores rather irregular, globose, sub-globose, polygonal<br />
or elhpsoidal, dark brown, almost opaque,<br />
16-22 X12-20 ja (Figs. 19, 10 c).<br />
On Qalium verum.<br />
Scotland, Aberdeen (see Trail, Scot. Nat., vii (N.S. i),<br />
p. 243, 1884), St. Fagans, Aberdeens. (A. Smith,<br />
July, 1932, Herb. Kew.); Newcastle-on-Tyne (A. W.<br />
Bartlett, 1938, Herb. I.M.I. 32325); Guernsey (E. A.<br />
Ellis, July, 1939, Herb. I.M.I. 32326); Cambs. Fio-19- Melanotaenium endogenum.<br />
Spores. x500.<br />
Spore germination. Woronin (1882) germinated, in<br />
October and November, spores collected at the end of June. The epispore spht<br />
and the endospore grew out as a blunt, cylindrical germ-tube which often<br />
branched, but only one branch developed further, forming a promycelium<br />
•\vith four to seven apical branches which fused at the tip or at the base. After<br />
fusion some of these developed septate mycelium but no sporidia were observed.<br />
Melanotaenium hypogaeum (Tul.) ScheUenb.<br />
Ustilago hypogaea Tulasne, Fung, hypog., p. 196, 1851.<br />
Melanotaenium hypogaeum (Tul.) ScheUenberg, Die Brandpilze der Schweiz,<br />
p. 108, 1911.<br />
Sori in the root stock. Spore mass compact, black, intersected by white fibres.<br />
Spores rounded or rounded polygonal, dark brown, smooth, contents very<br />
oleaginous, 20-24 x 14r-20/x. [n.v., after Phillips & Plowright.]<br />
On Linaria spuria.<br />
Freshwater, Isle of Wight, 1869, John Lowe (see Phillips & Plowright, Orevillea,<br />
xiii, p. 52, 1884).<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.
102 THE BKITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Melanotaenium lamii Beer<br />
Melanotaenium lamii Beer, Trans. Brit, mycol. Soc, vi, p. 337, (Sept.) 1920.<br />
Melanotaenium lamii Sydow, Ann. mycol., Berl., xviii, pi 156, (April) 1921.<br />
Sari in the undergroxind stems as blister-like swellings! or as tuberous bodies<br />
8-5-9-0 mm. diam. (Plate II, Fig. 1); affected buds are much more swoUen.<br />
Spore mass firm, black. Spores spherical to oval, dark brown, thick-waUed,<br />
smooth, 17-20 [J. diam.<br />
On Lamium album.<br />
Chalfont, Stroud, Glos., early summer 1918 and again in 1919, W. F. Drew<br />
(Beer, loc. cit.); Lacey Green, Bucks., 11 Feb. 1948, K. Sampson (Herb. Kew.).<br />
Spore germination and infection of the host are unknown. Viennot-Bourgin (1937)<br />
has described the development and anatomy of galls produced by this species<br />
on Linaria spuria and by M. cingens on L. striata.<br />
ENTYLOMA de Bary,<br />
Bot. Zeit., xxxii, p. 101, 1874.<br />
Type: Entyloma microsporum (Ung.) Schroet. [E. ungerianum de Bary] on<br />
Banunculus repent, Germany.<br />
Synonym: Bhamphosora D.D. Cunningham, 1887.<br />
Sori usually in the leaves, generally giving rise to discoloured areas, permanently<br />
embedded in the host tissue. Spores single, hyahne or pale in colour. Sporidia<br />
not infrequent on the host plant as a result of spore germination in situ or on<br />
mycelium protruding through the stomata.<br />
Spore germination, see pp. 104-8.<br />
Entyloma achilleae Magn.<br />
Entyloma achilleae P. Magnus, Abh. naturh. Ges. Niirnberg, xiii, p. 8, 1900.<br />
Sori in the leaves. Spores globose, colourless, 10-12/A diam. [Sporidia on the host<br />
one-, rarely two- to four-celled, hyaline, 6-25 by 3-5-5-5fi; fide Liro (1938)].<br />
On Achillea millefolium.<br />
Isle of Bute, Aug., 1907, D. A. Boyd (A. L. Smith, Trans. Brit, mycol. Soc, iii,<br />
p. 122, 1909 [Herb. B.M.]).<br />
Entyloma calendulae (Oudem.) de Bary<br />
Protomyces calendulae Oudemans, Archiv. Neerl. Sci. Exact, nat., viii, p. 384,<br />
1873.<br />
Entyloma calendulae (Oudem.) de Bary, Bot. Zeit., xxxii, p. 102, 1874.<br />
Sori in the leaves as circular spots, 1 •0-5-0 mm. or more diam., first pale, then<br />
brown. Spores globose to polygonal, almost hyaline to pale yellow, smooth,<br />
9-14 /x diam. Sporidia, see p. 22.<br />
On Calendula officinalis and (fide Beaumont, Bep. Plant Path., Seale Hayne<br />
agric. Coll., x, p. 39; xi, p. 54; xiii, p. 39) cultivated Calendula.<br />
March-Dec. Cornwall, Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk.<br />
Spore germination. De Bary (1874) described and figured the germination of
FIG. 20. Spore geimination in Entyloma. a. E. ficariae. Foliar sporidia and mycelium<br />
(Marshall Ward, 1887); b. E. microsporum. x600 (de Bary, 1874); c. B. magnusii. x520<br />
(Woronin, 1882); d. E. calendulae (Kaiser, 1936).
104 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
fresh material. Three to eight short, cylindrical branches developed at the apex<br />
of the promyceUum, fused in pairs and grew out iw, situ to form very long,<br />
slender, spindle-shaped sporidia. Paravicini (1917) foxmd that the short and<br />
rather broad promycelial branches fused after abstriction, and one nucleus<br />
passed through the bridge. Kaiser (1936) confirmed de Bauy's observations and<br />
demonstrated the binucleate condition of the sporidia which developed from the<br />
fused promycelial branches. Some branches grew out directly to form mycelium,<br />
others, unpaired, cut off uninucleated sporidia (Fig. 20 d). In rare cases two<br />
promycelia developed from one chlamydospore. Above and below the optimum<br />
temperature (8°-12° C.) the number of promycelial branches was reduced.<br />
Infection of the host. The infection of young leaves occurs throughout the<br />
summer, presumably from foliar sporidia and germinating chlamydospores, and<br />
in spring from chlamydospores which have overwintered in old parts of the<br />
plant. De Bary (1874) observed light flecks nine days after germinating<br />
chlamydospores had been placed on leaves of Calendula officinalis.<br />
Entyloma calendulae (Oudem.) de Bary f. bellidis (Kreiger) Ainsworth &<br />
Sampson, comb, no v.<br />
Entyloma bellidis Kreiger, Hedwigia, xxxv, p. (144), 1896.<br />
Sori in the leaves. Spores as E. calendulae. {Sporidia on the host needle-shaped,<br />
colourless, 20-45 X1-5 ft, fide Liro (1938).]<br />
On Bellis perennis. St. Fergus, Aberdeenshire, Dec, 1932, A. Smith [Herb.<br />
Kew.].<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.<br />
Entyloma calendulae (Oudem.) de Bary f. dahliae (Sydow) Viegas<br />
Dahlia Smut<br />
Entyloma dahliae Sydow, 1912.<br />
Entyloma calendulae (Oudem.) de Bary f. dahliae (Sydow) Viegas, Bragantia, iv,<br />
p. 748, 1944.<br />
Sori in the leaves as circular to elliptical spots up to 1 cm. diam., sometimes'<br />
confluent, at first pale, later brown and giving rise to dead areas (Plate II, Fig. 4).<br />
Spores as E. calendulae. Sporidia, see below and p. 22 (Fig. 1 f).<br />
On cultivated DahUas.<br />
Aug.-Oct. Widespread. Common.<br />
Spore germination has been observed by Pape (1926), Pethybridge (1928), and<br />
Green (1932). Pape figured the promycelium with an apical crown of branches<br />
which fuse in pairs, apparently at their apices, and produce long, needle-shaped<br />
sporidia, 60 X 1-0 /i. Green described the sporidia as needle-like (45-75 x 2-0 fx),<br />
sometimes slightly curved, aseptate, with one end pointed and the other somewhat<br />
blunt, marking its point of attachment to the sporidiophore. Infection<br />
experiments were negative.<br />
Entyloma calendulae (Oudem.) de Bary f. hieracii Sehroet.<br />
Entyloma calendulae (Oudem.) de Bary f. hieracii Schroeter, Cohn Beitr. Biol.<br />
PJlanz., ii, p. 439, 1876.<br />
Entyloma hieracii Sydow, 1919.
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 105<br />
Sori in the leaves. Spores as E. calevdulae. Sporidia not reported on the host.<br />
On Hieracium vulgaium and (fide Plowright, 1889) H. murorum.<br />
Autumn. Scotland (nr. Aberdeen).<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.<br />
Entyloma chrysosplenii (B. & Br.) Schroet.<br />
Protomyces chrysosplenii Berkeley & Broome, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., Ser. 4, xv,<br />
p. 36, 1875. [Notices of British Fungi No. 1472.]<br />
Entyloma chrysosplenii (B. & Br.) Sehroeter in Cohn, Beitr. Biol. PJlanz., ii,<br />
p. 372, 1877.<br />
Sori in the leaves as thickened, whitish spots, 2-6 mm. diam. Spores globose or<br />
shortly ellipsoidal, colourless, smooth, 10-12 fx, diam. [n.v., after Plowright.]<br />
On Chrysosplenium oppositifolium.<br />
June-Sept. Scotland (New PitsUgo [type locaUty]; Birks of Fiadhom [Keith,<br />
Scot. Naturalist, iv, p. 348, 1878]).<br />
There is no type specimen in the Berkeley herbarium in Herb. Kew. and no<br />
British specimens have been traced.<br />
Spore germination. According to Maire (1900) the spore germinates while still in<br />
the leaf and produces at the apex of the promycelium two to four oblong,<br />
cylindrical sporidia, 15-16x2-5-3 /x.<br />
Entyloma eryngii (Corda) de Bary<br />
Physoderma eryngii Corda, Icones Fungorum, in, p. 3, t. 1., 18.<br />
ErUyloma eryngii (Corda) de Bary, Bat. Zeit., p. 105, 1874.<br />
Sori in the leaves as fawn-coloured, raised, spots, 1-3 mm. diam. Spores<br />
globose, or shghtly angular, epispore 1/x thick, smooth, hyaUne to yeUow-brown,<br />
8-10 /i diam.<br />
On Eryngium maritimum.<br />
Stevenston, Ayrshire, D. A. Boyd, Sept. 1908 [Herb. B.M.].<br />
Spore germination. De Bary (1874) described and figured germination. The<br />
promycelium bears four (sometimes five or six) terminal branches which fuse in<br />
pairs either at the apex or the base, and finally grow out to form mycehum.<br />
Sporidia were not seen. /<br />
Entyloma fergussoni (B. & Br.) Plowr.<br />
Protomyces fergussoni Berkeley & Broome; Ann. Mag. nxit. Hist., Ser. 4, xv, p. 36,<br />
1875. [Notices of British Fungi No. 1473.]<br />
Entyloma canescens Sehroeter, 1877.<br />
Entyloma fergussoni (B. & Br.) Plowright, British Ured.
106 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Spore germination. Schroeter (1877) states that spores from Myosotis stricta and.<br />
M. hispidus germinated easily soon after they were ripe and formed, as in<br />
Entyloma microsporum, long, spindle-shaped sporidia 26-^:0 X 2-2-3 fi. Old ilecks<br />
on the leaves were thickly covered with beds of sporiciia. Kaiser (1936) sawspores<br />
germinating in the tissues of the host but he was unable to germinate<br />
chlamydospores of this species under artificial condition^. He suggests that the<br />
two types of sporidia found in nature ion the leaf are mainly responsible for<br />
dissemination of the disease, that they can overwinter and infect new plants in<br />
the spring (see p. 23). The best method for transmitting the disease was to<br />
spray plants with water containing dry or fresh infected material broken into<br />
small fragments. A suspension of sporidia gave particularly good results. The<br />
technique used did not completely exclude the possibility of chlamydospores<br />
being present in the suspension. The incubation period was 21 days. In E.<br />
serotinum on Symphytum sp. Schroeter (1887) refers to the thread-like<br />
sporidia (26-40 X 2-2-3 [x.) that precede the spores making young flecks pure<br />
white.<br />
Physiologic specialization. Infection experiments, using sporidial suspensions<br />
from various hosts, showed that the forms of E. fergtissoni on Myosotis, Symphytum,<br />
Borago, Mertensia, and Pulmonaria are biologically distinct. Measurements<br />
of chlamydospores and sporidia from' these genera of host plants agreed<br />
closely and Kaiser (1936) unites the forms as one species indicating the forms by<br />
trinomials as recommended by Ciferri (1932).<br />
Entyloma ficariae (Berk.) Fiseh. v. Waldh.<br />
Cylindrosporium ficariae Berkeley, Brit. Fungi, No. 212, 1837. [Notices of<br />
British Fungi, No. 135, 1838.] Stat, conid. [in 1875 Berkeley & Broome<br />
(Notices of British Eungi, No. 1471) reported chlamydospores in the type<br />
specimen].<br />
Fusidium ranunculi Bonorden, 1851. Stat, conid.<br />
Gloeosporium ficariae (Berk.) Cooke, 1871. Stat, conid.<br />
Entyloma ungerianum f. ficariae Winter, Bahenh. Fungi Europ.,'No. 1873,1874.<br />
[C. ficariat Berk, cited as conidial state.]<br />
Entyloma ungerianum f. ficariae von Thiimen, Mycoth. Univ., No. 219, 1876.<br />
[Collected by G. Winter and probably the same as Babenh. Fungi Europ.,<br />
No. 1873.]<br />
Entyloma ficariae (Thvim.) Fischer von Waldheim, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscow.,<br />
hi, p. 309, 1877.<br />
Entyloma ranunculi (Bon.) Schroeter, 1877,<br />
Cylindrosporium ranunculi (Bon.) Saccardo, 1878. Stat, conid.<br />
Entylomella ficariae (Berk.) v. Hohnel in Wese, Ann. mycol,<br />
Berl., xxii, p. 191, 1924. Stat, conid.<br />
Sori as circular spots on the leaves, at first yellowish (or<br />
FiG.21. Entyloma whitish due to sporidia), 2-5 mm. diam. (Plate II, Fig. 5).<br />
ficariae. Spores. Spores globose to sub-globose, pale brown, wall 1-2 fj. thick,<br />
^ • smooth, 10-14 fi diam. (Fig. 21). Sporidia on the host fusiform,<br />
thread-like, or ellipsoidal, hyaline, mostly 30-45 X about 2-0 /x (Figs. 16 and 20a),<br />
as whitish growths on both sides of the leaves (see p. 22).
On Ranunculus ficariae and B. scleratus.<br />
THE BEITISH SMUT FUNGI 107<br />
April-May. Widespread. Common.<br />
Exsiccati: Berkeley, Brit. Fungi, 212; Cooke, Fungi Brit. Exsicc., i, 533.<br />
Spore germination. Marshall Ward (1887) states that after some months in the<br />
dormant condition the spores put out promycelia from which sporidia are developed<br />
which seem to behave like those on the leaves.<br />
Entyloma fuscum Schroet.<br />
Entyloma fuscum Schroeter in Cohn, Beitr. Biol. Pflanz., ii, p. 373, 1877.<br />
Sari in the leaves, forming roundish yellow spots. Spores globose or polygonal,<br />
colourless then brown, 10-16 /oi diam. Sporidia on the host, on the undersides of<br />
the leaves, cylindrical, curved, attenuated towards the base, simple or septate,<br />
hyaline, 10-20 X 3-0/x.<br />
On Papaver rhoeas.<br />
North Wootton, Norfolk, July, 1882 (Phillips & Plowright, Grevillea, xiii, p. 52,<br />
1884) [Herb. B.M.]; Wisley, Surrey, May, 1930, J. Ramsbottom [Herb. B.M.].<br />
Both the British collections have been identified as E. bicohr Zopf [E. bicolor<br />
Stromeyer] a species near to or identical with E. fuscum from which it is said to<br />
differ by having spores 23 X12-17 jx instead of 11-16 /n diam. Plowright (1889)<br />
gives the spore size as 20-23 X15-18 ju, but as the spore size of the two specimens<br />
examined is rather less than this they have been tentatively referred to E.<br />
fuscum.<br />
Spore germination. Schroeter (1877) described how the hght flecks on the basal<br />
leaves of Papaver in spring became covered, under moist conditions, with thin<br />
white tufts resembling Ramularia. Sections of the leaf showed tufts of promycelia<br />
passing between the guard cells and bearing apically five to eight sporidia,<br />
at first cylindrical, later long, spindle-shaped, almost thread-like in form,<br />
like those on Myosotis (see p. 106).<br />
Entyloma helosciadii Magn.<br />
Entyloma helosciadii Magnus, Hedwigia, xxi, j).^ 129, 1882. Stat, conid.<br />
Cylindrosporium helosciadii repentis Magnus, Abh. bat. Ver. Brandenburg, xxxv,<br />
p. 68, 1893.<br />
Entylomella helosciadii repentis (Magn.) von Hohnel in Weese, Ann. mycol., Berl.,<br />
xxii, pp. 193-4, 1924.<br />
Sori in the leaves as discoloured spots which become necrotic, frequently<br />
covered, especially on the underside, by a white sporidial growth. Spores<br />
spherical to elhpsoidal, thin-walled, hyaline to dark yellow, 5-12 fi diam.<br />
Sporidia on the host cylindrical with shghtly tapered ends to oval, hyaline,<br />
9-14 X about 3-0/i.<br />
On Apium nodiflorum.<br />
June-Oct. Eire, Co. Dublin [Herb. I.M.I. 32305] and Tipperary (first recorded<br />
by O'Connor, Sci. Proc. roy. Dublin Soc, N.S., xxi, p. 395, 1936, where host is<br />
given in error as Sium erectum); England (Wilts.).
108 THE BKITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.<br />
In some of the material examined Protomyces macrosporus Ung, (see Plowright<br />
(1889) p. 300) was also present. '<br />
Entyloma henningsianum Syd.<br />
Entyloma henningsianum Sydow, Hedwigia, xxxix, p. 123; 1900.<br />
Sori in the leaves forming scattered orbicular spots, 4-8 mm. diam., pale yellow,<br />
becoming brownish. Spores globose or globose-angular, yellowish-hyaline,<br />
epispore about 2 ft thick, smooth, 9-15 /x.<br />
On Samolus valerandi.<br />
Dubh Loch, Inveraray, Argyllshire, Sept., 1907, D. A. Boyd (A. L. Smith & Rea,<br />
Trans. Brit, mycol. Soc, iii, p. 34, 1908 [Herb. B.M.]).<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.<br />
Entyloma matiicaxiae Eostr.<br />
- Entylxyma matricariae Rostiup in Thumen, Mycoth. univ.. No. 2223,1884.<br />
Entyloma matricariae Trail in Plowright, 1889.<br />
Entyloma trailii Massee, 1891 [nom. nov. for E. matricariae Trail apud Plowr.].<br />
Sori in the leaves, when mature as discrete brown spots or affecting all surfaces<br />
of the leaf segments, and, less frequently, the stems. Spores globose or polygonal,<br />
thin-walled, hyaUne to dark yeUow, smooth, 10-12 fi diam. Sporidia on the host,<br />
in mature and maturing sori, filiform, hyaline, one- to four-celled, 6-25 X 2-3 fx.<br />
On Matricaria inodora.<br />
Aug.-Sept. Scotland (Orkneys, Aberdeens., Argylls.).<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.<br />
Entyloma microsporum (Ung.) Schroet.<br />
Protomyces microsporus Unger, Die Exantheme der Pflanzen, p. 343, 1833.<br />
Entyloma ungerianum de Bary, 1874 [nom. nov. for P. microsporus Ung.].<br />
Entyloma microsporum Schroeter in Rabenh. Fungi Europ., No. 1872, 1874.<br />
Stat, conid.<br />
Gylindrosporium ranunculi var. microsporum D. Saccardo, 1904.<br />
Entylomella microspora (D. Sacc.) Ciferri, 1938.<br />
Sori in the leaves and petioles as round or fusiform yellowish-brown swellings.<br />
Spores globose or irregular, pale yellowish brown, epispore formed of several<br />
layers, 2-6 /x thick, smooth, 12-21 X10-18 /LI. Sporidia on the host fusiform,<br />
hyaline, 12-18x2-5/n.<br />
On Eanunculus repens, R. acris.<br />
Sept.-Oct. England (Yorks.), Scotland.<br />
Spore germination. De Bary (1874) obtained germination in 24 hours by placing<br />
spores from a fresh, ripe sorus in water in a moderately warm room. Spores<br />
dried for three months also germinated. Four to eight (usually six or seven)<br />
terminal branches developed simultaneously on the promycelium with apical or<br />
basal fusion. Sometimes the branches grew out to form mycelium, sometimes<br />
they gave rise to long, thin, slightly bent sporidia (Fig. 20 b).
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 109<br />
Infection of the. host. Characteristic flecks developed in 11 to 14 days after<br />
inoculating leaves of R. repens with germinating chlamydospores (de Bary,<br />
1874).<br />
DoASSANSiA Cornu,<br />
Ann. Sci. nat.. Bat., Ser. 6, xv, p. 285, 1883.<br />
Type; Doassansia alismatia (Nees) Cornu on Alisma plantago, Europe.<br />
Synonyms: SetchelUa Magnus, 1895.<br />
Doassansiopsis (Setch.) Dietel, 1897, p.p.<br />
Sari usually in the leaves of aquatic plants or of plants in moist situations;<br />
rather permanently embedded in the host tissue. Spore balls each composed of<br />
a sterile cortical layer and a central mass of fertile spores which in some species<br />
surround a central core of sterile cells or hyphae. Spores light-coloured, thinwalled,<br />
smooth. Spore germination, see below.<br />
Setchell (1892) in his monograph of the genus distinguished three sub-genera:<br />
Eudoassansia, for forms such as D. sagittariae and D. alismatis, in which the<br />
centre of the spore ball is composed of spores only; Doassansiopsis, for forms<br />
such as D. martianoffiana, in which the spores surround a core of parenchymatous<br />
tissue; and Pseudodoassansia in which the spores enclose an irregular<br />
mass of hyphae.<br />
Doassansia alismatis (Nees) Cornu<br />
Sclerotium alismatis Nees in Fries, Systema, ii, p. 257, 1822.<br />
Perisporium alismatis Fries, ibid., iii, p. 252, 1829.<br />
Doassansia alismatis (Nees) Comu, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot., Ser. 6, xv, p. 285,1883.<br />
Sphaeria alismatis Currey, Trans. Linn. Soc., Lond., xxii, p. 334, 1859 fide<br />
SeteheU [but see Grove, Coelomycetes, i, p. 53, 1935].<br />
Sphaeropsis alismatis (Currey) Cooke, 1867.<br />
Phyllosticta curreyi Saccardo, Syll. Fung., iii, p. 60, 1884 [nov. nom. for S. alismatis'].<br />
Cylindrosporium alismacearum Saccardo, p.p., fide Grove, 1937.<br />
Sori in the leaves as yellowish to brownish circular spots up to 1 cm. diam. and<br />
as larger irregular areas on which the embedded spore balls form numerous<br />
minute elevations. Spore balls more or less spherical, dark reddish-brown,<br />
130-200 [I diam., each composed of a distinct cortical layer of radially elongated<br />
cells (10-20x5-12 /x) surrounding a central mass of spores. Spores globose or<br />
somewhat angled, tinted yellowish, smooth, 10-12 /j, diam.<br />
On Alisma plantago-aquatica.<br />
July-Oct. England (Suffolk), Scotland.<br />
Exsiccati: Cooke, Fungi Brit. Exsicc, i, 431 (as Sphaeropsis alismatis).<br />
Spore germination. Comu (1883) found that the spores germinated easily in<br />
water forming a crown of sporidia which were at first fusiform, elongated and<br />
diverging, later almost thread-like. Brefeld (1895) so figured germination.<br />
SetcheU (1892) who germinated fresh spores in July to August and dried<br />
material in October to March, described the process in some detail. The promycehum<br />
was long, slender (40-50 X 3-4 jti) with five to seven fusiform sporidia
110 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
(20-28 X 2 /i) at the apex. Septation occurred as the protoplasm passed to the<br />
apex and a short stump of the promyceUum separated after the sporidia had<br />
become detached (see Fig. 15 e). The sporidia conjugatedlin pairs at the base.<br />
Germ-tubes developed from the apex of one or both sporidia or from the base.<br />
Unconjugated sporidia did not germinate but sometimes the promyceUum gave<br />
rise directly to mycelium. No secondary sporidia were observed. Grove (1937)<br />
assumes that Cylindrosporium alismacearum Sacc. represents the sporidia produced<br />
on promycelia from spores of Doassansia alismatis germinating in sihi.<br />
This may be so, but it is possible that this Doassansia sometimes develops sporidia<br />
directly from parasitic mycelium (see p. 23).<br />
Doassansia limosellae (Kunze) Schroet.<br />
Protomyces limoseUae Kunze, Rabenh. Fungi Eur., No. 1694 (1873).<br />
Entyloma limosellae (Kunze) Winter, 1884.<br />
Doassansia limosellae (Kunze) Schroeter, Die Pilze Schles., iii, p. 287, 1887.<br />
Burrillia limosellae (Kunze) Liro, 1920.<br />
Sori in the leaves and leaf stalks on both surfaces of which the embedded spore<br />
balls form numerous, irregularly scattered, brown then black elevations, at first<br />
beneath the epidermis, later erumpent. Spore balls oval or globose, brown,<br />
50-150 [I diam., each composed of a central mass of spores enclosed by what<br />
appears to be partly disorganized brown hyphae. Spores globose to oval, pale<br />
brown, smooth, 9-11 fi diam.<br />
On Limosella aquatica.<br />
Earlswood Reservoir, Warwickshire, on dried-up mud, W. B. Grove, Oct., 1921<br />
(see J. Bot., Lond., Ix, p. 169, 1922), and Oct., 1929 [Herb. Grove in Herb.<br />
Univ. Birmingham].<br />
As can be seen from the synonymy, there is some doubt regarding the generic<br />
position of this smut which was excluded from Doassansia by Setchell (1892).<br />
Pending the examination of fresh material, the name used is that under which<br />
the fungus was first recorded for this country by Grove {loc. cit.).<br />
Spore germination. Brefeld (1895), who was only able to germinate spores in<br />
nutrient solution, described the spore germination as being very similar to that<br />
of D. sagittariae. Grove (Joe. cit.) observed spores on the host in a state of active<br />
germination and reported conjugation of the primary sporidia in pairs and the<br />
presence of great numbers of elongated secondary sporidia.<br />
Doassansia martianoffiana (Thiim.) Schroet.<br />
Protomyces martianoffianus Thiimen, Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou, liii, p. 207,<br />
1878.<br />
Doassansia martianoffiana (Thiim.) Schroeter, Die Pilze Schles., iii, p. 287, 1887.<br />
Doassansiopsis martianoffiana (Thiim.) Dietel, 1897.<br />
Sori in the undersides of the leaves as round or irregular yellowish spots on<br />
which the embedded spores baUs form numerous minute elevations. Spore balls<br />
sub-globose, brownish, 120-160 /x diam., each consisting of a cortical layer within<br />
which is a layer of spores enclosing a central mass of parenchymatous cells.<br />
Spores sub-globose or shghtly elongated, pale yellow, smooth, 8-12 /x diam.
THE BKITISH SMUT FUNGI 111<br />
[Sporidia on the liost, on blunt hyphae protruding from the stomata, long,<br />
slender, 30 X1 -5 fi. They apparently germinate in position and give rise to small<br />
bunches of tangled hyphae (Setchell, 1892,1894).]<br />
On Potamogeton sp.<br />
Ayrshire, Ardrossan, Aug., 1911, D. A. Boyd (Trans. Brit, mycol. Soc., iv, p. 185,<br />
1912) and West Kilbride, July, 1914, D. A, Boyd [Herb. Kew.].<br />
Spore germination. Unknown.<br />
Doassansia sagittaiiae (Westend.) C. Fisch<br />
Uredo sagittariae Westendorp., Herb, crypt. Belg., No. 1177, 1857.<br />
Physoderma sagittariae Fuckel, 1865.<br />
Protomyces sagittariae (Fuckel) Fuckel, 1869.<br />
Aecidiwm incarceratum Berkeley & Broome, 1875 [Notices of British Fungi,<br />
No. 1469].<br />
Doassansia sagittariae (Westend.) C. Fisch, Ber. dtsch. hot. Ges., ii, p. 405, 1884.<br />
Sori in the leaves as yellowish brown spots 5-10 mm. diam. on which the embedded<br />
spore balls form numerous minute elevations. Spore balls more or less<br />
spherical, pale yellow-brown, 50-80 fi diam., each composed of a distinct cortical<br />
layer of rather irregularly arranged sterile cells, 12-18 fj. diam., and a central<br />
mass of spores. Spores globose to angular, tinted yellow, smooth, 8-12 [j. diam.<br />
On Sagittaria sagittifolia.<br />
Summer. England. Uncommon.<br />
Exsiccati: Vize, Micro. Fungi Brit. 50 (as Protomyces sagittariae); Rabenhorst,<br />
Fungi Europ., No. 1492 (as Aecidium incarceratum; some specimens of this<br />
exsiccata are leaves of Alisma plantago presumably infected by D. olsiTnatis).<br />
Spore germirmtion. Fisch (1884) obtained germination in spring and early<br />
summer. The sporidia are inserted at unequal distances on the markedly conical<br />
tip of the promycelium. They were not observed to conjugate but, rarely,<br />
fusions took place between secondary sporidia. This was confirmed by Brefeld<br />
(1895) who germinated over-wintered spores (Fig. 15/) and found that sporidia<br />
were viable after three months. Infection takes place throughout the summer,<br />
first from overwintered spores and then from sporidia. Infected leaves are<br />
always raised above the surface of the water.<br />
Type: GrapUola Poit., 1824.<br />
GRAPHIOLACEAE<br />
Sori in the leaves of palms, erumpent, single or in groups in a compact black<br />
peridium. Sporidia ('spores') produced laterally in whorls at the septa of sporogenous<br />
hyphae (equivalent to chains of chlamydospores) arising from the base<br />
of the sorus.<br />
GEAPHIOLA Poiteau,<br />
Ann. Sci. nat. iii, p. 473, 1824<br />
Ty^: Graphiola phoenicis Poit. on date-palm [Phoenix dactylifera], Paris,<br />
France.<br />
Sori single, each with an inner thin-walled, colourless, peridium and fascicles of
112 THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI<br />
protruding sterile hyphae intermixed with the sporogenous hyphae. Sporidia<br />
globose to elliptical. Sporidial germination by a filamentous mycelium or by the<br />
formation of fusiform secondary spores.<br />
Graphiola phoenicis Poit. , Palm Smut<br />
Oraphiola phoenicis Poiteau, Ann. Sci. nat. iii, 473, 1824 [G. phoenicis (Moug.)<br />
de Toni [as '(Moug.) Poit.'] {PRacidium phoenicis Mougeot, 1821) is a later<br />
homonym].<br />
Sari in the leaves, erumpent, rounded, 1-1-5 mm. wide, 0-5 mm. high, each with<br />
a hard black outer wall surrounding a thin colourless membrane, at first closed,<br />
then with an apical opening through which fascicles of yellowish hyphae protrude<br />
2 mm. or more. Sporidial mass yqUowish, granular. Sporidia globose to<br />
elliptical, colourless, smooth, 3-6 /x diam.<br />
On date-palm (Phoenix dactylifera) in greenhouses.<br />
Eccsiccati: Vize, Fungi Brit., 171; Fungi exsicc. Select, ex Herb. M. C. Cooke, on<br />
palms, Kew Gardens, April, 1855.<br />
DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES<br />
Doassansia comari (Berk. & White) de Toni & Massee {Protomyces comari Berk.<br />
& White) = Physoderma comari (Berk. & White) Lagerh. See Sampson<br />
(1940).<br />
Melanotaenimn ari (Cooke) Lagerh. [Protomyces ari Cooke (Grevillea, i, p. 7,<br />
1872) on leaves of Arum maculatum, Chichester) has frequently been accepted<br />
as a smut but an examination of the type specimen and other European<br />
material in Herb. Kew. supports the opinion expressed by Beer (1920) that<br />
this species does not belong to the UstUaginales. The thick-walled spores are<br />
possibly oospores.<br />
Sorosporiom scabies (Berk.) Fisch. v. Waldh. (Tuburcinia scabies Berk.) =<br />
Spongospora subterranea (Wallr.) Lagerh.<br />
Sphacelotheca reiliana (Kiihn) Clinton on maize was compiled by Cooke (1906)<br />
but no British record has been traced.<br />
Tilletia berkeleyi Massee (1899) on Triticum vulgare, King's Cliffe, Northants.<br />
(Rev. M. J. Berkeley). The type specimen, which has no spores, gives no clue<br />
to this very doubtful species.<br />
Tilletia sphagni Nawaschin in capsules oi Sphagnum papillosum Lindb., Blelham<br />
Tarn, nr. Ambleside, Westmorland, 24 March 1948 (D. Walker, 1948), is of<br />
doubtful affinity.<br />
Tolyposporium montiae (Rostr.) Rostr. (Sorosporium montiae Rostr.) which was<br />
recorded on Montia fontana. West Kilbride, Ayrshire (D. A. Boyd) by Wakefield<br />
& Dennis {Trans. Brit, mycol. Soc, xxix, p. 145, 1946) is of doubtful<br />
affinity and does not, it is felt, justify the introduction of either Tolyposporium<br />
or Sorosporium into the British list.<br />
IlstilagO caidui Fisch. v. Wald. on Carduus was recorded by Cooke (1878) and<br />
Plowright (1889). No British specimen has been traced but there is a record<br />
on Girsium paltistre (F. A. Mason, Naturalist, 1921, p. 349).<br />
Ustilago cucumis A. B. Grifiiths, zooglea threads in root nodules of Cucumis<br />
sativa.
THE BRITISH SMUT FUNGI 113<br />
Ustilago ficuum Eeichardt on figs, Plowright (1889), p. 85 (footnote) is a species<br />
of Aspergillus, probably of the A. niger series, fide Thom & Raper, Manual<br />
of the Aspergilli, 1945.<br />
Ustilago grammica Berk. & Br. on Aira aquatica, Oxton, Notts., is probably a<br />
species of Pirostoma and the host may be Olyceria aquatica. See Sampson<br />
(1940).<br />
Ustilago phoenicis Corda on dates, Plowright (1889) p. 85 (footnote) = Aspergilliis<br />
phoenicis (Corda) Thom.<br />
UstUago rudolphi Tul. was recorded on Dianthu^ deltoides in a Norwich garden<br />
by Southwell {Gfrevillea, x, p. 67, 1881) and described by Plowright (1889) as<br />
Sorosporium saponariae Rudolphi. The description does not agree with<br />
S. saponariae, which is confined to Saponaria, and in the absence of a<br />
specimen the identity of the fungus recorded on D. deltoides must remain in<br />
doubt.<br />
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INDEX<br />
to generic and specific names of smuts (italics) and to British hosts (romans)<br />
Bold face page number indicates description, asterisk {*) a figure.<br />
Achillea miUefolium<br />
Entyloma achilleae, 102<br />
Aecidium incarceratum B. & Br., Ill<br />
Agropyron<br />
Vrocystis agropyri, 94<br />
Vstilago hypodytes, 57<br />
— macrospora, 69<br />
Agrostia<br />
Tilletia decipiens, 86<br />
Alisma plantago-aquatica<br />
Doassansia alismatis, 109<br />
Alliimi<br />
Vrocystis cepulae, 95<br />
Ammophila arenaria<br />
Vstilago hypodytes, 57<br />
Anemone<br />
Vrocystis anemones, 94<br />
Anthracoidea Bref., 78<br />
— carycis (Pers.) Bref., 78<br />
— suhinclusa (Kom.) Bref., 79<br />
Apimn nodiflorum<br />
Entyloma helosciadii, 107<br />
Arrhenatherum elatius<br />
Vrocystis agropyri, 94<br />
Vstilago avenae, 61<br />
— striiformis, 68<br />
Ascomyces trientatis Berk., 90, 92<br />
Avena<br />
Vstilago avenae, 61<br />
— hordei, 58<br />
Barley, see Hordeum<br />
Bellis perennis<br />
Entyloma calendulae f. belUdis, 104<br />
Bromus<br />
Vstilago bullata, 65<br />
— hypodytes, 57<br />
— macrospora, 69<br />
Bulbocodium vernum<br />
Vrocystis colchici, 96<br />
Burrillia limosellae (Kunze) Liro, 110<br />
Caeoma bistortarum (DC.) Link, 65<br />
— colchici Schlecht., 96<br />
— destruens Schlecht., 76<br />
— hypodytes Schlecht., 56<br />
— longissimum Schlecht., 56<br />
— marginale (DC.) Link, 65<br />
• —pompholygodes Schlecht., 94<br />
— urceolorum (DC.) Schlecht., 78<br />
— utriculosa Nees, 72<br />
Calamagrostis canescens<br />
Vstilago macrospora, 69<br />
Calendula<br />
Entyloma calendulae, 102<br />
Calystegia<br />
Thecaphora seminis-convolvuli, 80<br />
Carduus heterophyllus<br />
Thecaphora trailii, 81<br />
Carex<br />
Cintractia caricis, 79<br />
— suhinclusa, 79<br />
Parysia olivacea, 75<br />
Vrofystis fischeri, 97<br />
Carnation, see Dianthus caryophyllus<br />
Cerastium viscosum<br />
Vstilago violacea, 70<br />
Chionodoxa luciliae<br />
Vstilago vaillantii, 59<br />
Chrysosplenium oppositifolium<br />
Entyloma chrysosplenii, 105<br />
CINTRACTIA Comu, 78<br />
Cintractia axicola (Berk.) Cornu, 78<br />
— caricis (Pers.) Magn., 74*, 78*<br />
— cingens (Beck) de Toni, 100<br />
— karii Liro, 74,* 79<br />
— montagnei (Tul.) Magn., 28, 79<br />
— patagonica Cooke & Massee, 65, 66<br />
— pratensis Syd., 79<br />
— scirpi (Kuhn) Schellenb., 79<br />
•— suhinclusa (Kom.) Magn,, 74,* 79<br />
Cirsium<br />
Vstilago cardui, 112<br />
Colchicum<br />
Vrocystis colchici, 96<br />
Convolvulus arvensis<br />
Thecaphora seminis-convolvuli, 80<br />
Cucubalus baccifer<br />
Vstilago violacea, 70<br />
Cylindrosporium alismacearum Sacc, 109,<br />
110<br />
— ficariae Berk., 106<br />
— helosciadii repentis Magn., 107<br />
— ranunculi (Bon.) Sacc, 106<br />
var. microsporum D. Sacc, 108<br />
Dactylis glomerata<br />
Vstilago striiformis, 68<br />
Dahlia<br />
Entyloma calendulae f. dahliae, 104<br />
Deschampaia caespitosa<br />
Vstilago striiformis, 68<br />
Dianthus caryophyllus<br />
Vstilago violacea, 70<br />
— deltoides<br />
^Vstilago rudolphi', 113<br />
DOASSANSIA Comu, 109<br />
Doassansia alismatis (Nees) Comu, 18, 27,<br />
91,* 109, 111<br />
— comari (Berk. & White) de Toni & Massee,<br />
112<br />
— deformans Setch., 17<br />
— limosellae (Kunze) Schroet., 110<br />
— martianoffiana (Thum.) Schroet., 23, 110<br />
— obscura Setch., 18<br />
•— occulta (Hoffm.) Diet., 18<br />
— sagittariae (Westend.) Pisch, 18, 91,*<br />
109, 110, 111<br />
Doassansiopsis (Setch.) Diet., 109<br />
— horiana (P. Henn.) Shen, 24<br />
— martianoffiana (Thiim.) Diet., 23, 110<br />
Elateromyces Bubak, 75<br />
— olivaceus (DC.) Bubak, 75<br />
Eleocharis parvula<br />
Vstilago marina, 75<br />
Elymus arenarius<br />
Vstilago hypodytes, 57
134<br />
Endoihlaspis Sorok., 76<br />
ENTORRHIZA Weber, 87<br />
Entorrhiza aschersoniana (Magn.) Lagerh.,<br />
87, 88*<br />
— cypericola (Magn.) Weber, 87, 88<br />
— digitata Lagerh., 88<br />
ENTYLOMA de Bary, 102<br />
Entyloma achilleae Magn., 102<br />
— azistrale Speg., 23<br />
— bellidis Kreiger, 104<br />
— bicolor Stromeyer, 107<br />
^^calendulae (Oudetn.) de Bary, 12, 22,*<br />
23. 25, 102, 103*<br />
f.6eHia!»s (Kreiger) Ainsw.& Samps.,104<br />
f. dahliae (Syd.) Viegas, 12, 18, 22,*<br />
23, 52, 104<br />
f. hieracii Sohroet., 104<br />
— canescens Sohroet., 105<br />
— chrysoaplenii (B. & Br.) Sohroet., 105<br />
— compositarum Farl., 23<br />
— endogenum (Ung.) Wiinche, 101<br />
— eryngii (Corda) de Bary, 105<br />
—fergussoni (B. & Br.) Plowr., 105<br />
—ficariae (B. & Br.) F. v. Waldh., 22,* 23,<br />
25, 28, 103,* 106*<br />
—ftiscum Schroet., 107<br />
— helosciadii Magn., 107<br />
—• henningsianum Syd., 108<br />
— hieracii Syd., 104<br />
—• limosellae (Kunze) Wint., 110<br />
— linariae Sohroet., 23<br />
— lobeliae Farl., 23<br />
— magnusii Woron., 103*<br />
— matricariae Rostr., 23, 108<br />
Trail, 108<br />
— meliloH, Mo Alp., 23<br />
— menispermi Farl. & Trel., 23<br />
— microsporum (ting.) Sohroet., 102, 103,*<br />
106, 108<br />
— nympheae (D. Cunn.) Setch., 16, 23<br />
— oenoiherae Marohal & Stemon, 23<br />
— polysporum (Peck) Farl., 23<br />
— ranunculi (Bon.) Sohroet., 106<br />
— serotinum Sohroet., 22, 106<br />
— trailii Massee, 23, 108<br />
— ungerianum de Bary, 102, 108<br />
f. flcariae Wint., 106<br />
Entylomella flcariae (Berk.) Hohn., 106<br />
— hehsciadii-repentis (Magn.) Hohn., 107<br />
— microspora (D. Saoc.) Cif., 108<br />
Eranthis hiemalis<br />
Vrocystis eranthidis, 97<br />
Eryngiinn maritimum<br />
Entyloma eryngii, 105<br />
Erysibe occulta Walh., 98<br />
— typhoides Wallr., 59<br />
— vera holci-avenacei Wallr., 60<br />
Farinaria carbonaria Sow., 78<br />
— scabiosae Sow., 71<br />
— stellariae Sow., 70<br />
FARYSIA Raoib., 75<br />
Farysia caricis (DC.) Lire, 75<br />
—javanica Raoib., 75<br />
— olivacea (DC.) Syd., 74,* 75*<br />
Festuoa<br />
Vstilago hypodytes, 57<br />
— striiformis, 68<br />
Filipendula hexapetala<br />
Vrocystis filipendulae, 97<br />
Fusidium ranunculi Bon., 106<br />
Fusisporium inosculans Berk., 83<br />
INDEX<br />
Gagea lutea<br />
Vstilago omithogali, 60<br />
Galium verum •<br />
Melanotaenium endogenum, 101<br />
Oeminella Sohroet., 881<br />
— delastrina (,Tul.) Sohroet., 88<br />
Qinanniella Cif., 90<br />
— trientalis (B. & Br.)]Cif., 90<br />
Gladiolus<br />
Vrocystis gladiolicold, 98<br />
Oloeosporium antherarum Oudem., 81<br />
—flcariae. (Berk.) Cooke, 106<br />
Glyoeria<br />
Vstilago longissima, 56<br />
Granularia violae Sow., 100<br />
ORAPHIOLA Poit., Ill<br />
Graphiola pkoenicis Poit., 17, 111<br />
Hepatiea pennsylvaniea<br />
Vrocystis hepaticae-trilobae, 98<br />
Hieraoium<br />
Entyloma calendulae f. hieracii, 105<br />
Holous<br />
Tilletia hold, 86<br />
Vstilago striiformis, 68<br />
Hordeum<br />
Vstilago hordei, 58<br />
— nuda, 63<br />
Junous<br />
Entorrhiza aschersoniana, 88<br />
Vrocystis junci, 98<br />
Knautia arvensis *<br />
Vstilago flosculorum, 72<br />
— sc(Aiosae„ 71<br />
Lamium albiun<br />
Melanotaenium lamii, 102<br />
Lathyrus pratensis<br />
Thecaphora deformans, 80<br />
Leek, see Alhvun<br />
LimoseUa aquatioa<br />
Doassansia limosellae, 110<br />
Linaria spuria<br />
Melanotaenium hypogaeum, 101<br />
— vulgaris<br />
Melanotaenium cingens, 100<br />
Lolium<br />
Tilletia lolii, 87<br />
Vstilago striiformis, 68<br />
Lychnis flos-cuouli<br />
Vstilago violacea, 70<br />
Lycoperdon tritici Bjerk., 83<br />
Maize, see Zea mays<br />
Matricaria inodora<br />
Entyloma matricariae, 108<br />
Melandrium<br />
Vstilago violacea, 70<br />
MELANOTAENIVM de Bary, 100<br />
Melanotaenium ari (Cooke) Lagerh., 112<br />
— caulium Sohroet., 100<br />
— cingens (Berk.) Magn., 82*<br />
— endogenum (Ung.) deBary, 82,* 100,101*<br />
— hypogaeum (Tul.) Sohellenb., 101<br />
— lamii Beer, 15, 102<br />
Syd., 102<br />
Montia fontana<br />
Tolyposporium montiae, 112
Muscari<br />
Ustilago vaillantii, 59<br />
Myosotis<br />
Entyloma fergussoni, 105<br />
Oats, see Avena<br />
Onion, see AUiuni'<br />
Oxyria digyna<br />
Ustilago vinosa, 69<br />
INDEX<br />
Paipalopsis irmischae Kiihn, 21, 90<br />
Panieum miliaceum<br />
Sphacelotheca destruens, 76<br />
Papaver rhoeas<br />
Entyloma fuscum, 107<br />
Perisporium alismatis Fr., 109<br />
Phacidium phoenicis Moug., 112<br />
Phalaris arvindinaeea<br />
Tilletia menieri, 87<br />
Ustilago striiformis, 68<br />
Phleum pratense<br />
Ustilago striiformis, 68<br />
Phoenix dactylifera<br />
Graphiola phoenicis, 112<br />
Phragmites communis<br />
Ustilago grandis, 59<br />
Phyllosticta curreyi Sacc, 109<br />
Physoderma comari (Berk. & White) Lagerh.,<br />
112<br />
— eryngii Corda, 105<br />
— sagittariae Fuckel, 111<br />
Poa pratensis<br />
Ustilago striiformis, 68<br />
Poikilosporium Diet, 80<br />
— trailii (Cooke) Vesterg., 81<br />
Polycystis anemones (Pers.) L6v., 94<br />
var. eranthidia Pass., 96<br />
— colchici Tul., 96<br />
—filipendulae Tul., 97<br />
— hohi Westend., 86<br />
— occulta (Wallr.) Schlecht., 98<br />
— parallela (Berk.) Fr., 98<br />
— pompholygodes (Schlecht.) Lev., 94, 95, 96<br />
— violae (Sow.) B. & Br., 100<br />
Polygonum<br />
Sphacelotheca hydropiperis, 77<br />
— inflorescentiae, 77<br />
Ustilago anomala, 72<br />
— histortarum, 65<br />
— vtriculosa, 72<br />
Potamogeton<br />
Doassansia martianoffiana, 110 *<br />
Primula<br />
TvJburcinia primulicola, 90<br />
Protomyces ari Cooke, 112 9<br />
— calendulas Oudem., 102<br />
— canescens B. & Br., 105<br />
— chrysosplenii B. & Br., 105<br />
— comari Berk. & White, 112<br />
— endogenus TJng., 101<br />
•— gain Nees, 101<br />
— limoseUae Kunze, 110<br />
— microsporus XJng., 108<br />
— martianoffiana (Thiim.) Schroet., 110<br />
— sagittariae (Fuckel) Fuckel, 111<br />
Ranunculus<br />
Entyloma ficariae, 107<br />
— microsporum, 108<br />
Urocystis anemones, 95<br />
Beticularia segetum BuU., 58, 60<br />
Rhamphospora D.D. Cimn., 102<br />
Rhynchospora alba<br />
Cintractia caricis 78<br />
Rumex<br />
Ustilago kuehneana, 73<br />
Rye, see Secale<br />
135<br />
Sagittaria sagittifolia<br />
Doassansia sagittariae. 111<br />
Samolus valerandi<br />
Entyloma henningsianum, 108<br />
Schinzia aschersoniana Magn., 87, 88<br />
— cypericola Magn., 87<br />
80HB0ETERIA Wint., 88<br />
Schroeteria decaisneana (Bond.) de Toni, 89<br />
— delastrina (Tul.) Wint., 88, 89*<br />
var. reticulata Cocconi, 89*<br />
Scilla<br />
Ustilago vaillantii, 59<br />
Scirpus caespitosus<br />
Gintractia caricis, 79<br />
Sclerotium alismatis Fr., 109<br />
Secale<br />
Tilletia caries, 83<br />
Urocystis occulta, 99<br />
Setchellia Magn., 109<br />
Silene<br />
Ustilago violacea, 70<br />
Sorosporium montiae Rostr., 112<br />
— sapononoe Rudolphi, 113<br />
— scabies (Berk.) F. v. Waldh., 112<br />
— syntherismae, 31, 33, 34, 38<br />
— trientalis (B. & Br.) Cooke, 90<br />
SPHACELOTHECA de Bary, 76<br />
Sphacelotheca cruenta, 28, 30, 32, 33, 34<br />
— destruens (Schlecht.) Stevenson & A. G.<br />
Johns, 31, 33, 34, 38, 76<br />
— hydropiperis (Schmn.) de Bary, 74,* 76,<br />
77,* 78<br />
— inflorescentiae (Trel.) Jaap, 77<br />
— panici-milacea (Pers.) Bubak, 76<br />
— pologoni-vivipari Sohellenb., 77<br />
— reiliana (Kiihn) Clint., 15, 26, 29, 32, 33,<br />
34, 41, 43, 112<br />
— schweinfurthiana (Thiim.) Sacc, 30<br />
— sorghi (Link) Clint., 18, 28, 29, 31, 32,<br />
33, 34, 38, 42, 43<br />
— ustilaginea (DC.) Cif., 77<br />
Sphaeria alismatis Currey, 109<br />
Sphaeropsis alismatis (Currey) Cooke, 109<br />
Sphagnum, papillosum<br />
.--fO^illetia sphagni, 112<br />
Spongospora subterranea (Wallr.) Lagerh.,<br />
112<br />
Stellaria<br />
/ Ustilago violacea, 70<br />
Succisa pratensis<br />
Ustilago succisae, 71<br />
Thalictrum minus<br />
Urocystis sorosporioides, 99<br />
THECAPHORA Fingerh., 80<br />
Thecaphora deformans Tul., 74,* 80<br />
— delastrina Tul., 88<br />
— hyalina Fingerh., 80<br />
— lathyri Kiihn, 80<br />
— seminis-convolvuli (Duby) Lire, 74,* 80,<br />
81*<br />
— trailii Cooke, 81<br />
TILLETIA Tul., 81<br />
Tilletia herheleyi Massee, 112<br />
— bullata Fuckel, 65
136<br />
TiUetia caries (DC.) Tul., 10, 11, 13, 18, 20,<br />
24, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 40, 41, 81,<br />
82,* 83,* 84, 85<br />
— de baryana F. v. Waldh., 68<br />
— decipiens (Pers.) Komicke, 15, 39, 82,* 86<br />
—foetida (Wallr.) Liro, 11, 13, 18, 30, 32,<br />
84<br />
— holci (Westend.) Sohroet., 86<br />
•— indica Mitra, 85<br />
•— lolii Auers, 86<br />
— menieri Har. & Pat., 87<br />
— rauwenhoffii F. v. Waldh., 86<br />
— secalis (Corda) Kuhn, 83, 84<br />
— separata Massee, 83, 86<br />
— sphaerococca (Rabenh.) F. v. Waldh., 86<br />
— sphagni Nawasch., 112<br />
— striaeformis (Westend.) Sacc, (58<br />
— tritici (Bjerk.) Wolff, 83<br />
— tumefaciens Syd., 15<br />
Tolyposporium fiUferum Busse, 24<br />
— montiae (Bostr.) Rostr., 112<br />
Tragopogon<br />
Vstilago tragopogonis-pratensis, 73<br />
Trientalis europea<br />
Tuburcinia trientalis, 92<br />
Trisetum flavescens<br />
Vstilago hypodytes, 57<br />
Tritieum '<br />
TiUetia caries, 83<br />
Ustilago nuda, 63<br />
TroUius europaeiis<br />
Urocystis anemones, 95<br />
TVBVRGINIA Fr. em. Woron., 90, 92<br />
Tuburcinia agropyri (Preuss) Liro, 92<br />
— anemones (Pers.) Liro, 94<br />
— cepulae (Frost) Liro, 95<br />
— colchici (Sehlecht.) Liro, 96<br />
— eranthidis (Pass.) Liro, 96<br />
—filipendulae (Tul.) Liro, 97<br />
•—fischeri (Komicke) Liro, 97<br />
— hepaticae-trilobae (DC.) Liro, 98<br />
—junci (Lagerh.) Liro, 98<br />
— occulta (WaUr.) Liro, 99<br />
— primulicola (Magn.) Bref., 90, 91*<br />
•—scabies Berk., 112<br />
— sorosporioides (Komicke) Liro, 99<br />
— trientalis B. & Bh, 21, 90, 91,* 92*<br />
— tritici (Kornieke) Liro, 92<br />
•—violae (Sow.) Liro, 99<br />
Uredo agropyri Preuss, 92<br />
— anemones Pers., 94<br />
— antherarum DC, 70<br />
— bistortarum a pustulata DC, 65<br />
P marginalis DC, 65<br />
y ustilaginea DC, 77<br />
— carbo DC, 58, 60, 63<br />
— caricis Pers., 78<br />
— caries DC, 83<br />
— colchici Link, 96<br />
— decipiens a graminum Strauss, 86 •<br />
—flosculorum DC, 71<br />
— hydropiperis Schum., 76<br />
— longissima Sow., 56<br />
— maydis DC, 66<br />
— olivacea DC, 75<br />
— omithogali Schm. & Kunze, 60<br />
— parallela Berk., 98<br />
— pompholygodes Berk., 95<br />
— ranunculacearum S hepaticae-trilobae DC,<br />
98 ,<br />
— receptaculorum DC, 73<br />
INDEX<br />
Uredo receptaculorum tragopogi DC, 73<br />
— sagittariae Westend., Ill<br />
— segeturn snhsp. avenae Pers., 60<br />
-T f. caricis Pers,, *75<br />
€ decipiens Pers., 86<br />
subsp. hordei Pers., 58<br />
var. mays-zeae DC, 66<br />
var. panici-miliacea Pers., 76<br />
subsp. tritici Pers., 63<br />
— seminis-convolvuli Duby; 80<br />
— sphaerococca Rabenh., 86<br />
— striaeformis Westend., 68<br />
— tragopogi Pers., 73<br />
pratensis Pers., 73<br />
— urceolorum DC, 78, 79<br />
Pers., 78<br />
— vinosa Berk., 69<br />
— violacea Pers., 70<br />
— zeae Schwein., 66<br />
UEOCYSTIS Rabenh., 90, 92<br />
Urocystis agropyri (Preuss) Sohroet., 11, 19,<br />
92, 94<br />
— anemones (Pers.) Wint., 18, 26, 93,* 94<br />
— cepulae Frost, 11, 13, 16, 17, 19, 48, 49,<br />
95<br />
— colchici (Sehlecht.) Rabenh., 96<br />
var. cepulae Cooke, 95<br />
— eranthidis (Pass.) Ainsw. & Samps., 96<br />
—filipendulae (Tul.) Schroet., 97<br />
—fischeri Komicke, 93,* 97<br />
— gladioli W. G. Sm., 98<br />
— gladiolicola Ainsw., 12, 98<br />
— hepaticae-trilobae (DC) Ainsw. & Samps.,<br />
98<br />
—junci Lagerh., 98<br />
— occuUa (Wallr.) Rabenh., 11, 17, 19, 92,<br />
93,* 98, 99*<br />
— parallela (Berk.) F. v. Waldh., 99<br />
— pompholygodes (Pers.) Rabenh., 94, 95, 98<br />
var. eranthidis (Pass.) Pass., 96<br />
— primulicola Magn., 90<br />
— sorosporioides Komicke, 99<br />
•—tritici Komicke, 11, 19, 92; and see V.<br />
agropyri<br />
— violae (Sow.) F. v. Waldh., 12, 17, 93,*<br />
100<br />
Ustilagidium Herzb., 54<br />
USTILAGO (Pers.) Rous., 54<br />
Ustilago anomala Kunze, 72*<br />
— antherarum (DC) Fr., 70<br />
— avenae Jens., 60<br />
(Pers.) Rostr., 10, 11, 13, 18, 25, 28,<br />
29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 44, 52, 56, 58,<br />
60, 63, 66<br />
var. levis Kellerm. & Swing., 58<br />
f. nigra Tapke, 63<br />
— bistortarum (DC) Komicke, 55,* 65, 78<br />
var. inflorescentiae Trel., 77, 78<br />
— bullata'BeTk., 10, 18, 24, 30, 34, 36, 44, 47,<br />
55,* 65, 68<br />
— calamagrostidis (Fuokel) Clint., 69<br />
— candollei Tul., 76<br />
— carbo (DC) Tul., 58, 60, 63<br />
a. vulgaris 8 bromivora Tul., 65<br />
— cardui F. v. Waldh., 112<br />
— caricis (Pers.) XJng., 78<br />
— cingens Beck, 100<br />
— crameri Kornieke apud Fuokel, 19, 26,<br />
28, 38<br />
— cucumis Griff., 112<br />
— decipiens (Walh.) Liro, 60<br />
— echinata Sohroet., 69
Ustilago ficuum Reich., 113<br />
—flpsculorum (DC.) Fr., 71<br />
var. succissae Vize, 71<br />
— grammica B. & Br., 113<br />
— grandis Fr. 65,* 59<br />
— heufleuri Fuckel, 16, 25<br />
— holci-avenacei (Wallr.) Cif., 60<br />
— hordei (Pers.) Lagerh., 11, 15, 18, 19, 24,<br />
26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38,<br />
44, 49, 52, 58, 61, 63, 66<br />
— hydropiperis (Schum.) Schroet., 77<br />
— hypodytes (Schlecht.) Fr., 15, 24, 55,* 56<br />
—-hypogea Tul,, 101<br />
•—inflorescentiae (Trel.) Maire, 77<br />
— kolleri Wille, 58; and see V. hordei<br />
— kuehneana Wolff, 55,* 73<br />
— levis (KeUerm. & Swing.) Magn. 58<br />
— longissima (Schlecht.) Meyen, 28, 30, 33,<br />
55,* 56, 69, 75<br />
var. macrospora Davis, 33, 66<br />
— macrospora Desm., 69<br />
— major Schroet., 70, 71<br />
— marina Dur% d. Maisson., 75<br />
— maydis (DC.) Corda 10, 13, 14, 16, 19, 24,<br />
26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40,<br />
41, 42, 43, 46, 49, 50, 66, 67<br />
— mays-zeae Magn., 67<br />
— medians, see U. avenae<br />
•— neglecta Niessl, 38<br />
— nigra Tapke, 43, 60, 62; and see U. avenae<br />
— nuda (Jens.) Rostr., 11, 13, 14, 24, 25, 26,<br />
28, 30, 42, 45, 51, 62, 63,* 68<br />
— oUvacea (DO.) Tul., 75<br />
— ornithogali (Schm. & Kunze) Magn., 60<br />
— panici-miliacea (Pers.) Wint., 76<br />
— patagonica (Cooke & Massee) Cif., 65<br />
•— perennans Rostr., 33, 52, 60; and see U.<br />
avenae<br />
— phoenicis Corda, 113<br />
— pustulata (DC.) Wint., 66<br />
— receptaculorum (DC.) Fr., 73<br />
INDEX 137<br />
Ustilago rudolphi Tul., 113<br />
— salvei B. & Br., 67<br />
— scabiosae (Sow.) Wint., 27, 55,* 71<br />
— scillae Cif., 59<br />
— scorzonerae Schroet., 42<br />
— segetum (Pers.) Dittm., 54, 58, 60, 63<br />
var. hordei f, nuda Jens., 63<br />
var. nuda Jens., 63<br />
— spegazzini Hirsch. var. agrestis (Syd.)<br />
Fischer & Hirsch., 55*<br />
— sphaerogena Burrill, 38<br />
— striiformis (Westend.) Niessl, 18, 19, 26,<br />
28, 29, 30, 31, 40, 41, 42, 46, 55,* 67, 68<br />
f. hordei Fischer, 68<br />
— subinclusa Korn., 79<br />
— succisae Magn., 71<br />
— tragopogi de Toni, 73<br />
— tragopogonis-pratensis (Pers.) Rous , 65 *<br />
73<br />
— tritici (Pers.) Rostr., 63; and see V. nuda<br />
— typhoides (Wallr.) B. & Br., 69<br />
— urcelorum (DC.) Tul., 78, 79<br />
— ustilaginea (DC.) Liro, 77<br />
— utriculosa (Nees) Tul., 72*, 77<br />
— vaillantii Tul., 14, 16, 48, 55,* 59<br />
— vinosa Tul., 69<br />
— violacea (Pers.) Fuckel, 12,14, 24, 27, 28,<br />
29, 30, 34, 42, 56, 70<br />
— vuijckii Oudem. & Beyer, 16<br />
— zeae (Beckm.) Unger, 66<br />
Veronica arvensis<br />
Schroeteria delastrina, 89<br />
Viola<br />
Vrocystis violae, 100<br />
Wheat, see Triticum<br />
Zea mays<br />
Ustilago maydis, 67
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