Crossword-Solution: CIDIUM 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Reissek[55] has described a Thesium, affected by an Œcidium, which was greatly modified, and assumed some of the characteristic features of certain allied species, or even genera.

These upright shoots have manifestly changed their nature and become apogeotropic; for if they had not been affected by the Æcidium, they would have grown out horizontally like all the other twigs on the same branches.

Each of the vesicular swellings is a form of fungus fructification known as an _Æcidium_, and each of the smaller specks is a fungus structure called a _Spermogonium_, and both of these bodies are developed from a mycelium in the tissues of the leaf.

Many other cases are now known, e.g.., the _Æcidium abietinum_, on the spruce firs in the Alps, passes the other part of its life on the rhododendrons of the same region.

The stems of the junipers so common in the neighborhood of Silverdale (near Morecambe Bay) used to be distorted with _Gymnosporangium_, and covered with the _teleutospores_ of this fungus every spring: in July all the hawthorn hedges in the neighborhood had their leaves covered with the Æcidium form (formerly called Roestelia), and it was quite easy to show that the fungus on the hawthorn leaves was produced by sowing the _Gymnosporangium_ spores on them.