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Burrillia echinodori Clinton, Jour. Myc. 8 : 154. 1902
Sori in leaves, forming irregular to subcircular areas, showing spore-balls as closely clustered very minute elevations on both surfaces ; usuaHy a single spore-ball occupying entire section of leaf between layers of the epidermis, more or less merged sidewise, often irregular but chiefly oblong to subspherical, without distinct cortex but composed of sterile ceUs and spores intermixed, chiefly 160-250 ^i in length; sterile cells light reddish-brown with thinner waUs than the spores and more irregular in shape and size ; spores light-colored, chiefly ovoid to spherical, occasionally somewhat flattened, apparently thick-waUed,
12-18/^ in length.
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Echinodorus cordifolius {E. rosiratus), California Florida. ^y />,/,■,, ,^
Type LOCALITY : Lower Matecumbe, Florida, on Echtnodorus rosiratus {E. cordtfohus).
Distribution : Florida and California.
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George Perkins Clinton. 1906. USTILAGINALES; USTILAGINACEAE, TILLETIACEAE. North American flora. vol 7(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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