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ment Domain, Sydiiey(J. H. Camfield; October, 1902); Cook's 

 River(A. A. Hamilton; October, 1912); recorded from South 

 Australia in J. M. Black's " Naturalised Flora of South Aus- 

 tralia"; new for New South Wales. — The specimens from New- 

 castle, Senecio crassijiorus, a native of South America, and Galenia 

 secunda, a South African species, have doubtless been introduced 

 in ballast unloaded from vessels. 



Mi\ E. Cheel exhibited, a series of interesting grasses infested 

 with "Smut" — Ustilmjo hnllafa Berk., on tlie inflorescence of 

 Agropyrum scahrum Beauv.; Nattai River, via Hill Top (E. 

 Cheel; February, 1912). It is recorded for New South Wales in 

 Cooke's " Handbook of Australian Fungi "(p. 326) on the inflor- 

 escence of 7'riticum, but it is not mentioned for this State by 

 McAlpine("The Smuts of Australia," p. 151), although he records 

 it for Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. It was originally 

 recorded from New Zealand, and afterwards from Murray River, 

 by Rev. M. J. Berkeley (tn'rfe Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., xiii., p. 174, 

 1872).— Urocystis stijxp McAlp., on leaves and stems of Stipa 

 arii^tiglumis F.v.M.; Hill Top (E. Cheel; January, 1912). The 

 only other record is on S. Ltiehmanni Reader, from Victoria (vide 

 Mc Alpine, op. cit., p. 198). — Urocystis tritici Koern., the Flag- 

 Smut of wheat, on leaves, leaf-sheaths, and stems of wheat 

 {Triticum vtdyare Vill.), from Long Sally, Eugowra(D. O. Douglas; 

 November, 1912). Mr. Douglas says, "There are ninety acres 

 in one paddock, and one-tenth of it blighted like this sample I 

 am sending you." It is probably the U. occidta of Cobb, 

 recorded from New England in Agric. Gaz. N. S. Wales, iii., p. 731, 

 1892). McAlpine(op. cit., p. 199) says it is common in New 

 South Wales, but does not give any specific locality. — Sorosporinm 

 eriachnes Thuem., on inflorescence of Eriachne sp. [? E. pallida] 

 from South Australia (Department of Agriculture, May, 1900. — 

 Tolyposporium hursum (Berk.) McAlp., on inflorescence oi Aiithi- 

 stiria imberbis Retz., [^Themeda Forskalii Hack., var, imberbis 

 Hack.] ; Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond (C. T. 

 Musson; November, 1912). Previously recorded for this State 

 in these Proceedings (1910, 137) as T. anthislirice Cobb. — Also 

 two exotic grasses : Avena barbata Brot., Hunter's Hill, and 



