BY D. McALPINE. 123" 



The leaf was yellow, the only one on this particular cabbage, 

 and probably connected in some way with the spots. 



Nests of Bacteria were plentifully found, but no other form of 

 fungus-fructification. 



I submitted the leaf to Dr. Cherry, and his report is as follows: 



Pathological Laboratory, 



University of Melbourne, 



22nd August, 1898. 



Scrapings from the surface of the specimen of Kerguelen 

 Island cabbage contain bodies which appear, from their morpho- 

 logical characters and staining reactions with the aniline dyes, 

 to be micro-organisms. They are of two forms, cocci generally 

 about 2 yx in diameter, and bacilli 6 fj. long and 2 fi in diameter. 

 No growth has been obtained by inoculations on gelatine and 

 potato kept for two months at from 8° to 15° C. These bodies 

 occur both on the black spots and on the normal surface of the 

 leaf. 



T. Cherry, M.D. 



Cladosporium herbarum. Link, was found on the same leaf. 

 Eaton also found the same fungus on dead stems. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



The works relating to Kerguelen Island Fungi are not nume- 

 rous, and their titles may be given here in full : — 



1. — Hooker, J. D. The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Dis- 

 covery Ships "Erebus" and "Terror," in they ears 1839-1843, 

 under the Command of Captain Sir James Ross. 



Part i. Flora Antarctica, 1845-1847 (Fungi, by Rev. J. M. Berkeley). 

 2. . Botany of Kerguelen Island. Phil.. Trans. Roy. Soc. 



Vol. 168, 1879. (Collections made during the Transit of Venus 



Expeditions, 1874 75, and Fungi named by Rev. J. M. Berkeley). 

 3. — Report of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" 



during 1875-76. Botany. Vol. i. (Fungi enumerated as in Phil. 



Trans. Vol. 168). 



