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Fungi from West Australia 



By W. B. Grove. 



Dr. F. Steward, Chief of the Government AgricuUural De- 

 partment of Perth, West-AustraHa, has at various times sent me a 

 number of Fungi collected in that district, among which the four 

 mentioned below are the most interesting. The specimens are de- 

 posited in the Herbarium, Birmingham University. 



1. Puccinia Conostylidis Grove. 



Soris uredosporiferis amphigenis, 1 — 2 mm longis, 

 sparsis seriatisve, maculis plus minusve decoloribus insidentibus, 

 oblongis vel hneari-lanceolatis, pulvinatis, compactis, tectis, dein 

 epidermide fissa diu cinctis ; uredosporis globosis vel ovali- 

 oblongis, subtiliter echinulatis, flavo-brunneohs, 20 — 25x15 — 20 p. \ 

 episporio ca. 2 ti crasso, poris germinationis binis oppositis sub- 



aequatorialibus. 



Soris teleutosporiferis majoribus, compactis, ob- 



scurioribus, et diutius epidermide tectis; teleutos poris clavatis v. ob- 

 longo-clavatis, apice rotundatis vel leniter attenuatis,valde incrassatis 

 (usque 8 /i), subconstrictis, saepe deorsum attenuatis, levibus, 40 — 70 

 X 15 — 20 li (saepius 48 X 17 /i) ; loculis facillime secedentibus, superiori 

 obscure castaneo, inferiori pallido longiori; poro germinationis loculi 

 superioris in apice incrassato, inferioris juxta septum sito; pedicello 

 crasso, persistenti, sursum brunneolo, usque 45 ^i longo ; m e s o - 

 s p o r i s paucissimis, ovoideis, obovoideis, v. subfusiformibus, apice 

 incrassato (usque 12 /x), saepius immaturis, pallidioribus. 35—37 

 X 12 — 15 //, pedicello plerumque breviori. 



Hab. in Conostylide hradmta (ex Haemodoraceis) Subiaco, prope 

 Perth Australiae occidentalis, Junio, 1913, Jan. 1914 (Dr. F. Ste- 

 ward, no. 1). 



There is no doubt that this species is closely alhed to P. Haetno- 

 dori P. Henn. (in Hedwigia, Beibl 1901, p. 96), but it differs from the 

 latter widely in the presence of abundant uredospores, as well as in the 

 rarity of mesospores. S y d o w examined (Monogr. 1, 609, f. 456) 

 an original specimen from H e n n i n g s , but was not able to find 



HiJwx^ia Band LV. 



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