187 



OF AUSTRALIAN FV'NGl—conlinued. 



Vergl. Morph. Pilze 187 (1884).— Ustilago, Uredo. 



2IS0 

 2180i 



Ann. Sci. Xiit. 285 (1883). 

 ■21811 ... I S.A I ... I V. I ... 



Linn. X. 230 (1835). 



Linn. IV. 116 .; 1829). 



21841 

 218.5 



S.A. 



V. 



N.S.W. 



Ovariesof Polygonum 

 Ovaricsof Pulggonum 



Leaves of Lythrum 

 hyssvpifutium 



Inflorescence of Rice 

 grass (Leersia hex- 

 andra) 

 Ovaries oi Leptocarpus 

 teiiax 



Spikes of Eriachne 

 Panicles of Ga/wia 

 fit urn 



Herb. Myc. II. 393 (I860).— Polycystis, Ustilago. 



218G 

 2187 



S.A. 



T. 



B. 



Wheat stems, leaves, 



glumes 

 Schcenus imherhis ... 



N.S.W. 

 N.S.^V. 



Sci. Nat. III. -173 (182i).— Phacidiiim. 



18S, ... : ... ) ... I ... I ... Q. I B. I Date palms 



1 III 



Klotz.sch, Herb. 1587 (1851). 



2189 

 2190 



Linn. XVI. 278 (1842). 



2191 



Heteropogon con- 



tortus 

 Glumes of Paspalum 



scrobiculatum 



B. I Roots of leguminousj 

 plants 



Spore masses black, elongated, projecting from flower, opening to 



allow escape of spores. 

 Diflers only in more distinct columella. 



Pustules on both sides, globose, point-like, scattered or gregarious, 

 brownish. 



Pustules almost globose, nestling in pales. Spores pale brown. 



Spore balls composed of about ten globose spores, ultimately falling 

 away into black powder. 



Mature fruit changed into bl.ack powdery mass. Spores brown. 

 Infesting inflorescence, but hardly visible to naked eye. Spores up to 

 100, in dark-brown balls. 



Pustules forming long black streaks. Spores dark brown, one to three 



celled, surromided by bladder-like sterile cells. 

 Pustules black, globose, compact. Spore balls of three to eight. 



Conceptacles bursting through, opening above, outer layer black and 

 horny. Spores yellow in mass. 



Olive brown, at first covered with spores of same colour. Spores stuck 



together. 

 Convex, hemispherical, twisted and folded, dark olive. Spores olive. 



Tnliercles varying in size and form, coloured like root, containing 

 hypha? and innumerable minute corpuscles. 



