AUSTRALIAN FU'N GI—conHnued. 



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Habitat. 



W.A. 



T. 



V. 



General Characters. 



HYPHOMYCETES, MARTIUS. 

 MUCEDINACE^, LINK. 



227C 



V 



DEMATIACE^, FRIES. 



Corda, Anlcit. 57 (1842). 



STILBEACEiE, FRIES. 



22791 ... 1 ... I ... I V. I 



SPH/EROPSIDES, LEV. 

 SPH^RIOIDACE.ffi, SACC. 



22801 



V. 



Leaves, leaf stalks, | Mostly on upper surface of leaves, sometimes on lower, spread out, 

 stem, and fruit of j greyish, powdery. 

 Oxalis cornicuUita 



Damp wall-paper . . 

 Peaches ... 



Black, sterile hypha; creeping, fertile branches ascending, simple or 



branched, p.ile upwards. 

 Spots circular, small at first, often confluent, dark green, finally causing 



cracking of peach. 



Dead 1 arvffi of Oneop- l Dii'ty-brown root colour. Stem branched, velvety, slender, tips oE 

 tera in(ricato, Walk. branches fertile. 



B. I Leaves of Carnations I Spots yellowish, oblong, round, or irregular. Receptacles globose to 

 I I depressed, black to brown. 



USTILAGINES, TUL. 

 USTILAGINACE-ffi, TUL. 



in Schrcet. Pilzfl. Schles. 276 (1882). 



2289 



PHYCOMYCETES, DE BARY. 

 PERONOSPORACE-E, DE BARY. 



In fermentation and 

 putrefaction of 

 wine 



In juices of fer- 

 mented fruits and 

 fermentation of 

 beer and wine 



Grape berry 



Saccharine liquids... 



In fermentation of 

 bread 



In fermentation of 

 wine and self- 

 fermenting beer 



Scale leavesof stored 



Onion bulbs 

 Poa annua, especially 



foliage 



Inflorcscenceof Kan- 

 garoo-grass {An- 

 thistiria ciliatu) 



Leaves, stem, and 

 fruit of Lepidium 

 ruderale 



Cells spheroidal, and forming a conglomeration instead of chains or 

 flakes. 



Cells spherical or top-shaped, united into a few branched colonies, and 

 very small. 



Cells somewhat resembling C. ellipsoideus. 



The asci are many-spored. 



Cells spherical, isolated, double or sometimes in threes ; like ordinary 



yeast but smaller. 

 Cells oval, oblong to club-shaped, varying in size ; in branched 



colonies or flakes. 



Pustules minute, dark coloured, in parallel lines along veins of leaves, 



at first covered by epidermis ; then powdery black. 

 Distorting, discolouring, and stunting plants, and forming black powdery 



masses. 



Fructification black. Spores compound, consisting of from a few dozen 

 to several hundred thick-walled brown spores. 



Lower surface of leaf attacked first, causing it to curl. Dense white 

 mould forming a felt. 



