Botanical Series Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India Some Diseases of Cereal caused by Scleropora Graminicola March 1907

In one a species of Campanula the calyx was free the corolla double the stamens with petaloid filaments and in the place of the pistil there was a bud consisting of several series of green bracts arranged in threes and enclosing quite in the centre three carpellary leaves detached from one another and the other parts of the flower and open along their margins where the ovules were placed. [...] 7a) ; in the other two ol the stamens occupied their ordinary position at the base of the bud while the third was carried up and arose a couple ol millimeters above the other on the outer side of the sheath tubE of the first leaf of the bud (fig. [...] They are found in the ground tissues of the stem and the mesophyll of the leaves chiefly but branches penetrate the bundle sheaths in the leaves where they lie between the sheath cells and others collect under the stomata and in young leaves send out cluters of condiophores through these into the air. [...] The effects of the fungus on the tissues are evident both in the mesophyll and the bundles of the leaf. [...] Following on the appearance of the whitish streaks which are the first outward sign of the presence of the parasite in the leaves a cloud of thick pale conidiophores bursts from the stomata covering the surface of the streaks with a greyish white haze easily visible to the naked eye.